Thé Lau - "Platina Blues"

Mooie plaat, vooral de trillende stemmen in pt 2, met het strakke ritme van de contrabas.

Pollyanna hypothesis

The idea that people tend to use positive words more often the negative ones is now known as the Pollyanna hypothesis, after a 1913 novel by Eleanor Porter about a girl who tries to find something to be glad about in every situation. But although widely known, attempts to confirm the hypothesis have all been relatively small studies and so have never been thought conclusive.

Now a group of researchers at Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont have repeated this work on a corpus of 100,000 words from 24 languages representing different cultures around the world. They first measured the frequency of words in each language and then paid native speakers to rate how they felt about each word on a scale ranging from the most negative or sad to the most positive or happy. The results reveal that all the languages show a clear bias towards positive words with Spanish topping the list, followed by Portuguese and then English. Chinese props up the rankings as the least happy. They go on to use these findings as a 'lens' through which to evaluate how the emotional polarity changes in novels in various languages and have set up a website where anybody can explore novels in this way . The finding that human language has universal positive bias could have a significant impact on the relatively new science of sentiment analysis on social media sites such as Twitter. If there is a strong bias towards positive language in the first place, and this changes from one language to another, then that is obviously an important factor to take into account.

(I wonder though; have they taken into account people prefer to write & read about positive things?)

George Ezra - "Wanted On Voyage"

A Jack Johnson style of singing and music, but more upbeat, and some fun yodely ("Cassy 'O") songs. "Budapest" sounded very familiar, or I have listened more often to this album than I realize.

"Spectacular Rival" has some great strings / film score moments.

Peter Matthew Bauer - "Istanbul Field Recording" (Liberation!)

Strange haunting piano play, with outside sounds and noises.

The rest of the album does not do that much to me, but this is eerie.

kinetic typography

in a rush again..


Of course, Lover's Walk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuleKKSgyE

Taylor Mali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VESBAhrzdwI

Krampfhaft - "Before We Leave"

Strange, clicksy music. Support of Gaslamp Killer by the way. Many nature sounds. Thinking of that Pogo? song which rehashed Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

Woodkid & Metropole Orchestra

Awesome concert of Woodkid with the Metropole Orchestra. Isn't he featured on soundtracks yet?

Particularly the moment when the floor started to vibrate, and when the audience kept singing, pulling them along in the song, were magnificent.

London Grammar - "Nightcall (LG re-edit)"

Pretty ok cover of Kavinsky.