Boing Boing » free http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 05:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Free, partial Tardis pinata http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/free-partial-tardis-pinata.html http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/free-partial-tardis-pinata.html#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:35:29 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=198747 Free on Craigslist DC: a partially completed (and rather well-done) Tardis pinata.

FREE: homemade TARDIS pull-string pinata. My 6 year-old daughter wanted a Dr. Who birthday and as nobody in the US sells Dr. Who pinatas I made this one. Unfortunately I ran out of time so the door panels and windows are only on 2 sides and didn't get around to putting any of the signs on it but you are free to finish it as much or as little as you like.

TARDIS pull-string pinata (Tyson's/Falls Church) ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/free-partial-tardis-pinata.html/feed 9 Open Goldberg Variations: free, open source recording and modern score of classical masterpiece http://boingboing.net/2012/05/28/opengoldberg.html http://boingboing.net/2012/05/28/opengoldberg.html#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 11:30:16 +0000 Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/?p=163407 Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial in Berlin's Teldex Studio, there's already plenty to love about a new cut of Bach's Goldberg Variations. But this one is also the first fan-funded, open source, and completely free recording of it.

"Every part of it is free for you to use, share, and copy," said Robert Douglass, who launched the successful Kickstarter project behind Werner Schweer's new version of the classic score and its production.

Schweer's modernized and digitized score was itself created with free and open source software from MuseScore.com.

The producers said their goal was to be "precise to Bach’s instruction, yet full of personality and character".

"To help make this recording truly timeless, we need your help. Share it. Give it away. Introduce others to its beauty, and explain to them why you love it," Douglass wrote. "Make yourself responsible for converting another person to being a Bach fan."

The production's website is at opengoldbergvariations.org. Five double CDs of the recording will be given away to listeners who sign up for a promotion. There's also a facebook page for the project and a twitter account to follow.

Wisconsin Public Radio also developed a website to accompany its broadcast of the Open Goldberg Variations, opengoldberg.wpr.org, which will display the score in real-time so listeners can "see" the music there as it plays: "a first-ever event, proving bleeding edge technologies," says Douglass.

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