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Saturn-Enceladus Electric Field & Soundtrack

Images from the Cassini probe show plasme interactions between Saturn's moon Enceladus and its rings, showing that the two celestial bodies form an electric circuit. NASA researchers converted the recording of the plasma waves as they moved between Saturn and Enceladus and produced this audio file.

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Rachel Ní Chuinn, Mia Zabelka - NAWR ANOIS #6

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This past week, we welcomed Rachel Ní Chuinn and Mia Zabelka to Swansea. Rachel and Mia performing some amazing music for us at the NAWR ANOIS #6 concert. Check out the other photos from the concert here.

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra in Worcester

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This week, The Swansea Laptop Orchestra played at the Clik Clik Collective takeover of the Weorgoran Pavillion in Worcester.Check out the photos from the gig here.

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Analog On, Andrew Leslie Hooker - NAWR ANOIS #5

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For the latest NAWR ANOIS concert, we welcomed Analog On and Andrew Leslie Hooker to Swansea for some modular synths and no input mixing magic sounds.Check out the photos of the concert here.

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Festival Of Voice: Every Song I've Ever Written

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This week my wife Jenn performed in the Festival of Voice: Every Song I've Ever Written - Band Night. The project involved 4 acts covering or interpreting one of 58 songs written by Jacob Wren which are part of the Every Song I've Ever Written project.

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra at Tŷ Cerdd

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This week The Swansea Laptop Orchestra helped launch Tŷ Cerdd's the CoDI Composer Pathways project. Swanlork will be montoring and performing pieces from composers in the Electonic pathway of the project.Check out more photos from the concert here.

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NAWR ANOIS #4 - Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Tinc Y Tannau

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This week we welcomed Caoihmín Ó Raghallaigh and Tinc Y Tannau to Swansea to perform in our fourth NAWR ANOIS concert.Check out the photos from the concert here.

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Pop Music Diversity

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The Pudding have a great interactive article showing the diversity of pop music across the decades. The article charts the similarity of hits based on their instrument gene, allowing you to filter by synth, guitar distortion or drums agressiveness among others. The article also ranks songs using the 8 data points of acousticness, danceablility, energy, instrumentalness, liveness, loudness, speechiness and valence in order to chart the similarity of songs across different decades.

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LevelUp & Mosney Creative Arts

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Direct provision is a system in Ireland that was put in place in 1999 in order to provide accommodation and care for refugees seeking asylum. Direct provision was created as an emergency measure before large numbers of asylum seekers entered Ireland.

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