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The Sound of the World Cup

Something which has been pointed about this year's football World Cup has been the sound at matches.  Many fans in South Africa have been bringing Vuvuzelas- long fixed-pitch horns and playing them in the crowd.

Kormucopia - Korm Plastics celebrates 25 years and a cassette culture resurgence.

Home taping killed music.  It unspooled its tape loop around a metaphorical neck and gave it a metaphysical squeeze.  Cassette culture - that currently flash and zombified byproduct of the format death whose early reports were so greatly exagerrated - celebrates one particularly vivid milestone with the quartocentennial of Korm Plastics, the Dutch label run by Frans de Waard. 

Aural Computer Game

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."

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