The story of ORCH5 : via Ian. ‘a one second pre-set sample supplied with the Fairlight synthesiser, and people from hip hoppers to Kate Bush used it all over the place. David Vorhaus (himself an electronic music pioneer in the 1960s) recorded what became ORCH5 in the late 1970s. The sound is the transitional bit of Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird, the moment when the full orchestra come in and do their stuff.’
(tags: fairlight sounds music audio orch5 sample david-vorhaus igor-stravinsky afrika-bambaataa planet-rock hip-hop via:ian)Newgrange Winter Solstice live stream : actually, it was live this morning at 8:58am. Missed it :( Still, the archived stream of the sun entering the burial chamber at Newgrange on the winter solstice is viewable here — and one to bookmark for next year…
(tags: newgrange ireland archaeology solstice history heritage events winter)