I was listening to the New Year’s Day concert by the Vienna philharmonic and wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Magnets are magic. They’re concentrated magic. Almost absolutely everything we interact with is the electro-magnetic field (besides gravity)… why we see things, why we touch things, how that touch signal reaches our brain, how our brain even processes it… all electro-magnetic! It is really hard to not see it as infused with something of the essence of reality. The strangeness of reality is everywhere and in feeling one magnet repel another we’re just toying with that magic concentrated in one place.