Canton Fitness owners share love of health & wellness with local community – Canton Citizen Newspaper

By Mary Ann Price Canton Fitness owners Tony Midi, left, and Jim Medeiros “hang out” in their Church Street facility. Jim Medeiros and Tony Midi, the owners of Canton Fitness, always ask their clients to begin a workout program with the same exercise — a visualization exercise. “We ask, ‘What does your fitness look like to you?’” Midi said. “Have a moment when you really think about what fitness looks like in your life.” Medeiros and Midi opened Canton Fitness in January on the Read More . . .

Rambert Dance Company, Sadler’s Wells, review – Telegraph.co.uk

Rambert Dance Company’s latest programme at Sadler’s Wells closes with a new work that seems on a mischievous little mission to bamboozle. The bill is a double celebration – doughtily experimental Kiwi Mark Baldwin’s 10 years at the helm of the company; L’Après-midi d’un faune’s 100 years in existence – and What Wild Ecstasy, by Baldwin himself, is billed as a modern response to Nijinsky’s Ballets Russes original. And yet, while the woodland setting and libidinous quality of Read More . . .

Review: Samson Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller – TechCrunch

By night, Jay writes for TechCrunch and has been contributing to the blog since 2009. By day, he manages Digital Strategy for Alliance Data. Prior to that, he held Art Director and Designer jobs at GSW Worldwide and Resource Interactive leading interaction design and mobile prototype projects. You can reach reach him at jaydonovan at crunchgear dot com. → Learn More If you are looking for Piano or Rhodes-like feel for serious playing, Samson’s Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller may not be right Read More . . .

Rambert Dance Company/L’Après-midi d’un faune/ What Wild Ecstasy, Sadler’s … – Evening Standard

Mark Baldwin’s What Wild Ecstasy avoids the literal-mindedness that has plagued some of his recent offerings but by such a wide margin as to be almost unintelligible. It marks Baldwin’s 10th anniversary as artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, and is presented as a companion piece to Nijinsky’s 100-year-old L’Après-midi d’un faune, in which a mythical half-man, half-beast makes Greek vase shapes at a bunch of nymphs before ejaculating into the scarf dropped by one of them. So w Read More . . .

Sound Product Of The Year: Jabrudian Industries Missing Link – Live Design

May 15, 2012 2:04 PM, By Marian Sandberg The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator is a standalone hardware device with its own onboard WiFi radio. It translates specially-coded Open Sound Control (OSC) messages sent from a mobile device or computer into standard MIDI to control, well, anything that responds to MIDI. It does this with low latency, high flexibility and configurability, and without the need for a computer anywhere in the control chain. Multiple OSC devices can connect simultaneously t Read More . . .

Samson Carbon 49 iPad keyboard targets mobile musicians – SlashGear

iPad musicians looking for an easy way to get their ideas into their tablet for under a Benjamin might find some keys to their taste in Samson’s Carbon 49 MIDI controller . As well as being a regular USB MIDI keyboard with 49 semi-weighted keys for use with your favorite PC or Mac music app, the Carbon 49 also has an integrated iPad stand and hooks up direct to the Apple tablet. The keyboard hooks up via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit and works with any app for the tablet with MIDI support. Read More . . .

MIDI Writer App Makes Music-Making As Simple As Texting – Co.Design

As fun as an iPad piano can be for a few minutes, it’s never a satisfying experience long term. And why would it be? The piano wasn’t constructed for a touch screen; it was constructed for a piano. So if we can’t bang on a piano’s keys, how should we make melodies? MIDIWriter is an iPhone app ($1) that translates every keyboard press you make into music. The alphabetical keyboard that you already use for texting, Facebook, and emailing becomes a platform for audio composition. “You ca Read More . . .