The Casio MT-40 keyboard’s “rock” unintentionally became a core ‘riddim’ of reggae music. Its creator, Okuda Hiroko, was a music graduate fresh out of college. She fell in love with reggae in middle school, and it became such an integral part of her life that she based her thesis on the genre. And apparently, this spilt over into her development of the MT-40’s preset rhythm tracks; although she hadn’t had the genre in mind, it likely influenced her subconsciously to make a rhythm that worked well with reggae music. Read full article here
Research
Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
The Gilgamesh Epic, the oldest work of world literature, has been brought back to life by LMU researchers in the Electronic Babylonian Literature project. Using their new Fragmentarium tool, they have discovered hundreds of manuscripts, including the most recent tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic which dates from 130 BC – thousands of years after the earliest known version. This shows how highly valued the Epic was, even at a late period. With the public release of the Fragmentarium, anyone can now explore the thousands of cuneiform fragments and explore the ancient Babylonian literature. Read full article here
Merv
March 12, 2023
