Pharell Williams latest solo album In My Mind wasn’t that bad, but not as ground-breaking as everything he did before, and so the feedback was a little bit disappointed. Back in the sudio with his companions from N.E.R.D., the crew produced the long awaited third album named Seeing Sounds. The contradictory title was inspired by a TV show about synaesthesia, a neurological disorder that causes people to experience sounds as colours or objects in their minds. And that’s what N.E.R.D. is all about. more »

Mobile telecommunication devices have penetrated our daily lives and are used by all sections of society. Enforced by flaterates and highly technological gadgets, which combine phones, musicplayers and mobile interent access, they a central role in our daily lives. Mobile phones are used in a variety of contexts and various locations by differnt people for differnet reasons. What is the impact the growing usage and relevance has on our society? That is the central question Ling investigates in his book The Mobile Connection: the Cell Phone’s Impact on Society. more »

A foley room is a place where sound effects are created for films. Foley artists use only their imagination and ingenuity to make the right noise for the right situation. These artists and their work served as inspiration for Amon Tobins new album. To create the foley style, Amon and his team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, from wasps to falling chickpeas, kitchen utensils to motorbikes to water dripping from a tap. more »

More agressive and harder than it’s predecessor, The Heart Of Everything ties up to where the durch band started: solid and strong symphonic gothic metal ensnared by Sharon den Adels impressive singing. more »

As user-centered approaches in digital product development get more and more attention, information architecture and interaction design have become two of the main tools for creating unique user experiences. Both are fundamentally about people, about how they use the products and services and how they interact with and get connected through them. more »

It’s all about melody. And on Dial M for Monkey, Bonobo, the monkey king himself, is back with nine perfectly formed melodies on a perfectly formed album. Not an overblown or conceptualised one – just simple, plain and truely genious. more »