BBC News March 4
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'Retired engineer Seth Goldstein has created a "kinetic sculpture" that can replicate digital music files and play them on a violin. The machine uses software to analyse the digital files and generate numbers to control the electronics and power the machine's motors - enabling the violin to produce the same notes as were originally played.'
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As I noted on Facebook, I view this robotic classical music as artistically superior, to a lot of music; by this I mean a lot of the popular music that has been released in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries which lacks significant creativity, artistic merit, and to a lessor extent in importance, complexity.
To me the robot or robotic classical music still sounds genuinely classical, even as not human, and that is still more creative and artistic than much pop music...
My bias is that although I do not dislike all popular or pop music, I generally like music that is not mainstream, is more creative, more artistic and more complex.
My iTunes therefore mainly features progressive and art rock, jazz rock (fusion) and classical.
On a related note...the other week at D and A's, the Princess wanted to prove to D, that she was a classically trained singer and that D was wrong and that she could sing higher than the a-ha vocalist that was after all a male, on the highest note in the classic song 'Take On Me'.
She proved D wrong, and just about shattered the glasses in the kitchen and my eardrums...
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for their annual service charges on her credit card and then added late fees and interest
on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00.
A family member placed a call to the Royal Bank:
Family Member:
'I am calling to tell you that she died in January.'
Royal Bank:'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.'
Family Member:
'Maybe, you should turn it over to collections.'
Royal Bank:
'Since it is two months past due, it already has been..'
Family Member:
So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?'
Royal Bank PAC:
'Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to
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Family Member:
'Do you think God will be mad at her?'
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Family Member:
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Being dead?'
Royal Bank:
'Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor.'
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Family Member:
'I'm calling to tell you, she died in January.'
Royal Bank:
'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.'
Family Member:
'You mean you want to collect from her estate?'
Royal Bank:
(Stammer) 'Are you her lawyer?'
Family Member:
'No, I'm her great nephew.'
(Lawyer info given)
Royal Bank:
'Could you fax us a certificate of death?'
Family Member:
'Sure.'
( fax number is given )
After they get the fax:
Royal Bank:
'Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I
Can do to help.'
Family Member:
'Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing Her. I don't think she will care.'
Royal Bank :
'Well, the late fees and charges do still apply.'
Family Member:
'Would you like her new billing address?'
Royal Bank:
'That might help.'
Family Member:
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1049.'
Royal Bank:
'Sir, that's a cemetery!'
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In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly, and on 3 May two British physicians, who had recently arrived, attended on him but could only recommend palliatives.[169] He died two days later, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father Ange Vignali.[169] His last words were, "France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine." ("France, army, head of the army, Joséphine.")[169]
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