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Music Notes: The Art & Science of Music Peak Music Studios Let me say something that might sound counterintuitive at first. Most musicians do not struggle with speed because they lack talent. They struggle because they chase speed before they build musical capability. Somewhere along the way, we absorbed the idea that the fastest player […]
Year of Storms, Chptr 2 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The steady hum of electricity through the walls floated up to the light panels and the sound washed over itself. They were trying to rob her of the sounds of degenerate humanity, but she had to wonder if near-perfect silence was worse. She […]
Lithium, Chptr. 25 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Mel watched the sunrise through the windows of the day room as the nurses wound down from the third shift, hanging off the nurse’s station counter that was holding them up. They took in three new people the night before, and they weren’t well off. […]
The Heights: Lee Shaw – An Xperience Column – by Joe Barna. A Celebration to the Life of Pianist Lee Shaw It was a calm and warm day in late summer of 1999. My friend Andrea and I were traveling north on the Taconic Parkway in my forest green 1996 Ford Mustang enroute to spend […]
Life on the Cutting Edge – Discoveries and Advancements Scientists Have Created Matter from Pure Light https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/149087/scientists-discover-turn-light-into-matter/ MIT Uses AI to Invent Powerful Antibiotics. https://asm.org/articles/2025/august/ai-next-frontier-antibiotic-discovery Artificial Heart that Beats Forever https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12034431/
Bourbon Review: Brick by Brick’s “Smooth Truth” – by Liam Sweeny. So Brick by Brick has made a bourbon called Smooth Truth, out a while now, and in anticipation of their show on March 13th at Empire Live, I will, of sound mind and in fair general condition, review this custom spirit. Their most recent […]
Whassup in the 518 Friday, January 30th A View from the Line: A Chorus Line 50th Anniversary Panel Discussion, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady Featuring Capital District residents and ACL alumni Debra Pigliavento, Michele Pigliavento and Michele Tibbitts. Moderated by Robert Whiteman. An evening filled with their personal stories and memories from Broadway, national and international tour […]
Lithium, Chptr 24 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. Mel rubbed his wrists the next morning beyond their actual pain. Something about being restrained, the panic of not being able to move and the vulnerability of being exposed to any manner of harm, not to mention the inability to take his mind off it […]
Life on the Cutting Edge – Discoveries and Advancements Pulling Light from the Vacuum By Manipulating Time and Space https://interestingengineering.com/science/creating-light-without-matter Growing Customizable Wood in Labs https://news.mit.edu/2022/lab-timber-wood-0525 AGI Learns New Tasks Without Human Guidance https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/world-s-first-agi-system-tokyo-firm-claims-it-built-model-with-human-level-reasoning/ar-AA1S17zW
Grampfather – Xperience History – by Joshua Reedy. Originally published March 2022. Grampfather are a Kingston band with a prolific ability to dynamically blend the fuzzy, prodding guitar blasts of psych-rock with the addicting, cool melodies of indie-rock. Their latest release Gramppappies boasts an eclectic mix of hard-hitting tracks, from the distorted stabs of “Murder […]
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