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Obama's Affordable Care Act promotes the digitization of millions of medical records to measure outcomes and contain costs. Big Data may also help doctors better understand many diseases, who's most likely to get them and what the best treatments might be. It also makes the most intimate kind of personal information available to the government, insurance and drug companies — even prospective employers.  We look at the pros and cons.
Warren Olney hosts To the Point with guests, Joel Dudley: Mount Sinai Hospital  Nortin Hadler: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iya Khalil: GNS Healthcare and Deborah Peel: Patient Privacy Rights

To the Point: Big Data and Healthcare

Google engineer Tyler Akidau on the evolution of stream processing, the challenges of building systems that scale to massive data sets, and the recent surge in interest in all things real time.

Building Systems for Massive Scale Data Applications

from 'Symmetry'
Denovali Records · den227
available on 3xCD | 4xLP | DIGITAL formats at [http://denovali.com/rd]

Limited collectors edition containing the albums:
Progress Chance
Assimilating The Shadow
As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another

Ricardo Donoso has composed a new paradigm of ambient music, in which concrete textures and digital synthesis expand on an abstract world in constant movement & mutation. Under a chain of progressive rhythm’s, cinematic textures and elegant melodicism, Donoso’s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but pulse and mind blowing intensity.
Although Donoso’s work has coalesced into a much broader and dynamic beast, his early work continues to be a source of inspiration. ‘Symmetry’ now compiles Donoso’s first three albums, lovingly referred to as the “Digitalis Trilogy” which includes Progress Chance, Assimilating the Shadow and As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another in a deluxe 4LP boxset & 3CD edition.
A truly entrancing journey of polyrhythmic counterpoint, the ‘Symmetry’ collection takes in influence from minimalist composers such as Reich & Riley, early techno and trance, and lush and deeply harmonic ambient music. It’s possible to look at the ‘Symmetry’ trilogy as a blueprint to Donoso’s later work in both its musical scope & thematic grandeur. Amidst all of its wide eyed, dreamlike states there is always a rumbling of subtle violence piercing just underneath the surface creating a truly immersive experience.

Assimilating the Shadow

Ricardo Donoso - Renunciation

Taken from the album "Communication", released by Preserved Sound, November 21, 2016. Purchase, download, stream the full album:

Communication

Change

Change – Max Ananyev

"When we bring our full attention to the act of listening, new worlds emerge that we wouldn't even notice if we were just passing by, distracted by thoughts". Introducing the new album, 'A State of Becoming' by Lav & Purl. Released Feb 6th. Now available: http://asip.me/asipv007

ASIPV007 - Lav & Purl / A State Of Becoming

Lav & Purl / A State Of Becoming

~ IIKKI 006 ~

music : Aaron Martin
photography : Yusuf Sevinçli 
album/book : Touch Dissolves
duration : 35.17 mn
date : July 2018

edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand sealed 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered + handcrafted
book : limited to 500 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : June 21th, 2018 / official release : July 12th, 2018

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All music by Aaron Martin. Recorded from March 6, 2018 to April 13, 2018 in Topeka, Kansas.

Mastered by James Plotkin in April 2018
Artwork by Yusuf Sevinçli
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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http://aaronmartin.bandcamp.com
http://www.yusufsevincli.com
http://www.iikki-books.com

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Aaron Martin - Touch Dissolves (album preview)

Drops in an Ocean

Following the release of his latest album ‘Oceanic’ (7K! Records) in February 2018, Niklas Paschburg presents a brand new track, that starts from J.S. Bach’s ‘Prelude In C Minor, BWV 847’ and takes the listener on a floating journey through the piano, synths and percussion that define his unique sound.

2018 was undoubtedly an intense year for the young German pianist, composer and producer Niklas Paschburg. It started with the release of his debut album ‘Oceanic’ via 7K! Records, followed by an intense period of live shows that took him across Europe in a single one-man-band-show and that grew in power and confidence along the way.

Having lived the last couple years in a tiny and isolated village near Nuremberg, after a year on-the-road, taking in 60 shows including concerts and sessions, Hamburg-born Niklas finally found a new base in Berlin.

Niklas supported Danish WhoMadeWho throughout their 2018 European tour and as well as sharing the stage with an eclectic range of artists including The Orb, Blonde Redhead, Vancouver Sleep Clinic and Bath. He also performed headline and festival shows in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Czech Republic and. Lithuania, developing a steadily growing live audience and a huge following on Spotify and Apple Music.

This live period culminated in his January 2019 performance at Eurosonic Festival in a crowded church. Niklas performed ‘Blooming (In C Minor)’ for the first time to widespread audience acclaim. The track represents the beginning of a fresh direction for Niklas in the run up to a new album scheduled for the end of 2019.

‘Blooming (In C Minor)’ is the studio-version of a live track, born from the desire to experiment with classical music applied to synthesizers. The piece comes from a composition of Bach (Prelude In C Minor - BWV 847), a composition that Niklas was made to play during his studies and had almost come to hate. Now it formed the basis for ‘Blooming (In C Minor)’ and was developed through a series of experiments with Bach live on stage between spring and winter 2018. 

‘Blooming (In C Minor)’ was produced and mixed by Gijs Van Klooster (who also produced his album ‘Oceanic’) at the Red House Studio in Amsterdam. The track represents a breakthrough in Niklas Paschburg’s sound. His main instrument the piano remains the focus but this new direction is more progressive, taking the listener on a journey between synthesizers, loops and his unique, soft drumming.

The seven minute long track combines Bach with both psychedelic and pop influences and includes a nod to the dancefloor. It’s a journey that shifts the boundaries of classical music and how it can be perceived.

Blooming (In C Minor)

Niklas Paschburg - Blooming (In C Minor)

Taken from the upcoming album 'For Victoria' released through Fluid Audio: 31.08.19.

Audio: Pepo Galán
Vocals: Sita Ostheimer
Mastering: Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio (NY)
Design: Daniel Crossley

Mailing list:
www.fluidaudio.bigcartel.com/mailing-list

For Victoria

Pepo Galán - Abstract Dream With Haines

HIOR CHRONIK – “BLIND HEAVEN”

Worldwide Release date: November 8th, 2019
On 7K! – LP – CD - Digital – Streaming

Seductive drone and post cinematic soundscapes between ambient, indie-neoclassical music. These are the best words to describe the vibes of the new album by the Greek/Berliner composer Hior Chronik, entitled “Blind Heaven” out on November 8th via 7K! - !K7.


There is a dark and cinematic atmosphere that chases throughout the new album by the Greek composer and producer Hior Chronik, a natural sequel to "Out Of The Dust", released on 7K! in 2017. While retaining an ambient and modern-classic dimension, "Blind Heaven" goes in search of new territories to observe and interpret. Sound landscapes made of synthesizers, electronics, strings, woodwinds and above all magical touches of the piano, so minimal as they are brilliant in their being perfectly integrated into the sonic trajectories traced by the Athens-born artist who has lived in Berlin for several years.

“The meaning of everything I do is to share with people something that maybe
will need to listen and make them feel more emotional in their life.
This album is another part of me. It’s my personal demonstration and voice to everything that hurts nature and weak people.”

Track after track "Blind Heaven" reveals itself by involving the listener in a particularly evocative and immersive multi-stage sound journey: Nocturne, crepuscular, foggy, the record moves in neighboring territories without delineating a precise and static form: the sound moves magmatic, it is discovered, it hides, it explodes, it shrinks and once again it frees itself to cross extremely natural and peaceful landscapes, as well as darker, industrial, apocalyptic, noisy and powerful worlds. Storm, then quiet again, but a stillness crossed by splinters and flashes clearly visible in the distance.

“Blind Heaven is the illusion of everyone that live his myth in his own bubble 
without seeing what’s really going on outside.”  

Created between the autumn and winter of 2019 in Berlin, mixed and mastered in Athens by John Valasis (already at the mix for the previous "Out Of The Dust"), "Blind Heaven" confirms Hior Chronik as one of the main names of the scene poised between the electronic-ambient world and that of modern classic minimalism. Proof of this are the prestigious feature of the album: from the Japanese by Erased Tapes, Masayoshi Fujita (vibraphone in "Blanket"), to the Polish pianist Hania Rani, who for a long time accompanied Hior Chronik on tour and whom we see here on the piano in "Words Are Gone", the producer and sound engineer Francesco Donadello, to the modular synths in "One Eternity At The Time", up to the New York artist Amber Ortolano, voice in "Beneath".


CAT Number: 7K016

1.Imitation of life
2.Beneath (feat. Amber Ortolano)
3.Don’t mess with my heart
4.Blanket (feat. Masayoshi Fujita)
5.Words are gone (feat. Hania Rani)
6.One eternity at a time (feat. Francesco Donatello)
7.Through the path
8.Smash and grab  
9.Intimacy of the unknown 
10.Elixir

Trumpet across the album by Christian Grothe

2* Amber Ortolano - vocals
4* Masayoshi Fujita - Vibraphone Arrangement 
5* Hania Rani - Piano
6* Francesco Donatello - Modular Synths

All songs are composed by Hior Chronik
Lyrics on track 2 by Amber Ortolano
Masayoshi Fujita appears courtesy of Erased Tapes
Hania Rani appears courtesy of Gondwana Records

Mixed & mastered by John Valasis
www.johnvalasis.com
Front cover by Narges Aqamiri
https://www.instagram.com/nargesaqamiri/
Back/Inside cover by Hior Chronik.
Layout by Paolo Proserpio
A&R at 7K! Carlo “Jarno” Garrè - www.7k.k7.com

Blind Heaven

The Words Are Gone Feat. Hania Rani

thesisproject.bandcamp.com/album/thesi…artyn-heyne

Ben Lukas Boysen - editing, zen garden.
Martyn Heyne - guitar, organ.

Composed, mixed, and mastered by Martyn Heyne + Ben Lukas Boysen at Lichte Studio Berlin.
Additional engineering by Matthias H. Franz Hahn. Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser.

Thank You!
Gregory Euclide, Matthias H. Franz Hahn, everyone at Manners McDade, Erased Tapes Records & Publishing, Claudia Gödke, and Karolina Zenobia Heyne.

Dedicated to Frieda and Frau Bellmann.

Thesis 16

& Martyn Heyne - June

2013 SVA Commencement Address. 

Transcript, highlights, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/13/greil-marcus-sva-commencement-address/

Greil Marcus on the artificial divide between "high" and "low" art

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