Tunisian musical duo Jathb is reviving traditional Sufi chants by blending them with electronic beats and therapeutic sounds. After four years of gaining recognition both in Tunisia and internationally, the duo is also working to preserve the centuries-old Sufi music and texts that form part of the country’s cultural heritage. Keywords for this article Source link
After today’s iPhone event, Apple invited members of the media to test out the new iPhone Duo. We were able to take a look, and we have some initial thoughts to share. The iPhone Duo is priced starting at $1,999, and it feels like it. This is a premium device that’s thin, but feels sturdy. The outer display is 5.4 inches, so it’s smaller than the iPhone 18 Pro when it’s closed, but the inner display is 7.6 inches. Apple used a nano-texture polymer for the inside display, and the material cuts glare but also reduces the visibility of the crease. The display layer has a micro lens texture written pixel by pixel using maskless laser lithography for a perceptually flat, matte surface. It does indeed minimize the look and feel of the fold in the middle of the iPhone Duo. You can still see the crease and it’s visible in certain lighting, but Apple did a better job than Samsung at hiding it. Of course, foldable creases can become more visible as a device …
While the long-awaited foldable iPhone has often been referred to as the iPhone Ultra or the iPhone Fold in rumors, another name making the rounds is iPhone Duo. There is no actual evidence that Apple will use the iPhone Duo name, but it is certainly a possibility. Apple has used Duo branding in the past, for its PowerBook Duo line of laptops in the 1990s and for its MagSafe Duo Charger in the early 2020s. In this case, Duo would refer to the foldable iPhone’s dual screens. Microsoft released a dual-screen Android smartphone called the Surface Duo in 2020 that has since been discontinued, and Intel had its popular lines of Core Duo and Core 2 Duo processors in the 2000s, so perhaps Apple will want to avoid using Duo branding due to that history. However, competing companies have devices with Ultra and Fold branding too, such as Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra and Galaxy Z Fold8. In April, former Macworld reporter Filipe Espósito cited a source familiar with Apple’s plans who said the foldable iPhone …
In the age of shortform video supremacy, there has been a great deal of angst about the authentic club music experience being rendered a vapid spectacle. Stop expecting DJs to be social media stars, put your phones away on the dancefloor, close your eyes and lose yourself in the beats, goes the revanchist wisdom. It’s understandable, but worries about superstar DJs stomping on the face of the pure rave experience are almost 30 years old now. It is decades since the Prodigy, Chemicals, Orbital and Fatboy Slim lit up festival stages and the charts. And anyway, spectacles can be fun – and funny – and so can dance music. The grounds of Christopher Wren’s Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich – a Unesco World Heritage Site, no less – are an unarguably comical setting for Welsh duo Overmono’s biggest headline gig to date, and brothers Tom and Ed Russell are fit for the part, and the party, celebrating the release of their second album with lasers dancing on the baroque towers and colonnades. But even …
One balmy October day in Havana, as the Cuban French sister act Ibeyi plotted the video for “Offerings” — an electro-spiritual ballad from the new album “Offering,” released in June — Lisa-Kaindé Díaz unceremoniously asked her twin Naomi Díaz, to ceremoniously shave her head on camera. Naomi was accustomed to Lisa-Kaindé’s whims long before they became professional artists. But to take a blade to her sister’s voluminous curls would be a bridge too far. “I was like, ‘Hell no. I’m not doing that!’” Naomi recalled to The Times, over a Zoom call from Paris. “As always, when I come with my woo-woo stuff, Naomi is eye rolling like, ‘Girl, what is this s—?’” said Lisa-Kaindé. “But this time around, Naomi was like, ‘OK.’” The music video ended with Lisa-Kaindé releasing her locks into the sea. At the core of Ibeyi, which translates to “twins” in the Yoruba language, is the polarity between sisters. Lisa-Kaindé is the bleeding heart who whispers divinity into her lyrics, and Naomi grounds them with the beating pulse of her percussion. …
Soft glam has been all the rage in recent years. Loads of us women are saying goodbye to heavy makeup that ends up accentuating bumps and fine lines, and saying hello to glow-giving complexion products that have a natural, blurring finish. It’s a beauty pursuit even more worthy now we’ve been thrown into a humid UK heatwave – because who really wants to cake their face when temperatures are this high? AT A GLANCE Many women with mature skin find blush and bronzer can accentuate fine lines e.l.f Cosmetics has launched a new blush-bronzer duo that midlife women are loving for its blurring ability The products are part of the brand’s new Soft Glam collection, which has just launched in the UK And in the quest for finding soft, glowy products that perfectly blur any complexion woes (particularly pesky fine lines), midlife women have uncovered a new blush-bronzer duo. Enter e.l.f Cosmetics’ Soft Glam collection, which features a cream blush and cream bronzer. The sticks are apparently so effective that you don’t even need to …
This Southbank concert by GBSR Duo (the name derives from the players’ initials: percussionist George Barton, pianist Siwan Rhys) offered no Taylor Swift. Instead, they juxtaposed Aphex Twin and Karlheinz Stockhausen, a composer who subjected European classical music to shock treatment in the decades following World War Two. The two traded mild insults 30 years ago so the concert was billed like a prize fight, Stockhausen vs Aphex Twin. In fact, the two works performed were more complementary than antagonistic. Stockhausen and Aphex Twin: Together at Last, perhaps. Source link
Running to four and a half hours without a break, Morton Feldman’s late work For Philip Guston is long by any standards. Non-athletes can finish marathons in less time; even the apocalyptic final instalment of Wagner’s Ring cycle is shorter. Yet the most striking thing about the work is its economy. An opening sequence of four pitches played by three musicians provides the musical material that is transformed, transposed, stretched and compressed throughout. Notes and motifs are repeated and multiply, echoing across the ever-sparse texture. The tempo is consistently slow, the dynamic consistently quiet. Rhythms are complex, but subtly so, making the instances of absolute synchrony into passing miracles. Time is the only resource with which Feldman is profligate. Challenged on the work’s scale, Feldman once quipped, “it’s a short four hours!” I’m not sure all attending this rare performance in Kings Place’s Memory Unwrapped series would have agreed. Seats creaked constantly as people wriggled, late arrivals crept in and others trickled out. Coughs were half stifled. Phones buzzed. Someone near me went through an …
In the endless white expanse, a small mound broke the horizon. As explorer Matthieu Tordeur and glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre skied towards it, they saw a golden head emerging from the snow. It was the bust of Vladimir Lenin left by a Soviet expedition at the southern pole of inaccessibility, the point in Antarctica furthest from any coast. This surreal experience was the first milestone of a 4000-kilometre expedition across the continent to collect data that could shed light on its future in a warming world. “I almost had tears in my eyes,” says Sevestre, speaking to New Scientist by satellite phone from Antarctica. “We felt really humble, really, really small, and it was quite something to see lonely Lenin here just in the middle of nowhere.” Since 3 November, the pair have been skiing with kites that can pull them at speeds of 35 kilometres an hour or more. It is the first kite-ski expedition to collect data for polar science. The pair are hauling sleds with ground-penetrating radar that can scan the snow and …
