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Émilie Simon
Émilie Simon (; born 1978 in Montpellier, Occitanie, France) is a French singer, songwriter and composer of electronic music. Music ''Émilie Simon'' In May 2003, she released her debut album '' Émilie Simon''. The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success. To promote her album, she did numerous live performances and TV appearances all over France. In 2004, she was rewarded with a Victoire de la musique in the 'Electronic Album' category for the album. Two music videos were made to promote ''Émilie Simon'', for the songs " Désert" and "Flowers". The English version of "Désert" had an identical music video to the French version. ''Émilie Simon'' was also re-released in certain parts of the world with additional tracks. Despite having been released for over three years, the album was still charting in the French mid-price album charts in late January 2007. More recently, Émilie Simon has begun performing and releasing CDs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montpellier
Montpellier (; ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Hérault. At the 2020 census, 299,096 people lived in the city proper, while its Functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 813,272. The inhabitants are called ''Montpelliérains''. In the Middle Ages, Montpellier was an important city of the Crown of Aragon (and was the birthplace of James I of Aragon, James I), and then of Kingdom of Majorca, Majorca, before its sale to France in 1349. Established in 1220, the University of Montpellier is one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in the world and has the oldest medical school still in operation, with notable alumni such as Petrarch, Nostradamus and François Rabelais. Above the medieval city, the ancient citadel of Montpelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Penguin
The emperor penguin (''Aptenodytes forsteri'') is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is Endemism in birds, endemic to Antarctica. The male and female are similar in plumage and size, reaching in length and weighing from . Feathers of the head and back are black and sharply delineated from the white belly, pale-yellow breast and bright-yellow ear patches. Like all species of penguin, the emperor is flightless, with a streamlined body, and wings stiffened and flattened into flippers for a marine habitat. Its diet consists primarily of fish, but also includes crustaceans, such as krill, and cephalopods, such as squid. While hunting, the species can remain submerged around 20 minutes, diving to a depth of . It has several adaptations to facilitate this, including an unusually structured Hemoglobin, haemoglobin to allow it to function at low oxygen levels, solid bones to reduce barotrauma, and the ability to reduce its metabolism and shut down non-essential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurockéennes
The Eurockéennes de Belfort (; ) is one of France's largest rock music festivals. The Eurockéennes, a play on words involving ''rock'' (rock music) and ''européennes'' (Europeans), is a festival based in a nature reserve beside Lac de Malsaucy Belfort. About History 1989 marked the first time round for the festival, when it went under the name ''Le Ballon - Territoire de musiques'', named after the nearby Ballon d'Alsace. The festival was organised to take place on the Ballon d'Alsace, but the peninsula on the Malsaucy lake was chosen in the end, because it was easier to link by car, bus and even train. It was the brainchild of the Conseil général of the Territoire de Belfort, who wanted to dynamise their '' département'' with a big cultural event for its youths. In 1990 the festival was renamed ''les Eurockéennes de Belfort''. Attendance: * 10,000 in 1989 * 70,000 in 1993 * 80,000 in 2002 * 95,000 in 2004 * 100,000 in 2006 * 100,000 in 2008 * 127,000 in 2013 (on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IRCAM
IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of Avant-garde music, avant garde and Electroacoustic music, electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organisationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The extension of the building was designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Much of the institute is located underground, beneath the fountain to the east of the buildings. A centre for musical research Several concepts for electronic music and audio processing have emerged at IRCAM. John Chowning pioneered work on FM synthesis at IRCAM, and Miller Puckette originally wrote Max (software), Max at IRCAM in the mid-1980s, which would become the real-time audio processing graphical programming environment Max/MSP. Max/MSP has subsequently become a widely used tool in electroacoustic music. Many of the techniques a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émilie Simon À L'Olympia
Émilie () is a French female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Émile. People named Émilie and Emilie include: * Émilie Ambre (1849–1898), French opera singer * Emilie Autumn (born 1979), American singer-songwriter, poet, author and violinist * Emilie Bergbom (1834−1905), Finnish theater director * Émilie Bigottini (1784–1858), French dancer * Émilie Bonnivard (born 1980), French politician * Émilie Marie Bouchaud aka Polaire (1874–1939), French singer and actress * Emilie Bullowa (1869–1942), American lawyer * Emilie Chandler (born 1983), French politician * Émilie Charmy (1878–1974), artist in France's early avant-garde * Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French mathematician, physicist and author * Émilie Claudette Chauchoin, birth name of Claudette Colbert (1903–1996), American actress * Émilie Contat (1770–1846), French stage actress * Emilie Davis (1839-1889), American diarist * Émilie Deleuze (born 1964), French film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opendisc
The OpenDisc project offered a selection of high quality open source software on a disc for Microsoft Windows users. The aims of the project were "to provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents to proprietary, shareware or freeware software for Microsoft Windows", and "to educate users of Linux as an operating system for home, business and educational use". The project was created in September 2007 by former OpenCD project lead Chris Gray, who cited numerous difficulties which he believed were negatively affecting the progress of the Canonical-sponsored project. As of 27 September 2007, the OpenCD project is no longer under active development (the former OpenCD project was replaced by OpenDisc). The last updates to the OpenDisc project seem to have been in September 2012. Contents Each version contains a GUI menu that offers a description and installer for each program. Version 12.09 includes what were the latest versions of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleur De Saison
Fleur(s) is French for flower(s). Fleur(s) may refer to: Music * Flëur, a Ukrainian band * ''Fleurs'' (Franco Battiato album), 1999 * ''Fleurs'' (Former Ghosts album), 2009 * ''Les Fleurs'' (album), by Ramsey Lewis, 1983 *''Fleurs 2'', a 2008 album by Franco Battiato *''Fleurs 3'', a 2002 album by Franco Battiato *" Les Fleurs", a song by Minnie Riperton from the album '' Come to My Garden'', 1970 Other uses * Fleur (given name) * "Fleur" (short story), a short story by Louise Erdrich * FLEUR, a solid-state physics software See also * Fleur-de-lis (other) * Lafleur (other) () * LeFleur (other) leFleur, Le Fleur, Lefleur, may refer to: People and characters * Glen LeFleur, drummer for the UK bands Olympic Runners, Arrival (band), Hanson (British band) * Glenn LeFleur, drummer for the UK band Kokomo (band) * Lance R. LeFleur, 2010s dir ... * Flower (other) () * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora
Flora (: floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous (ecology), indigenous) native plant, native plants. The corresponding term for animals is ''fauna'', and for fungi, it is ''funga''. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms ''gut flora'' or ''skin flora'' for purposes of specificity. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora (mythology), Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Végétal
''Végétal'' is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Émilie Simon. Overall, it is her third album, the soundtrack to the French version of ''March of the Penguins'' included. The album has a floral theme running through it. All the lyrics relate to plants and there are also sounds taken from actual plants. The CD can be used in Émilie Simon's official website to access exclusive content such as bonus tracks, remixes, and a music video for "Fleur De Saison". A special edition of the album was released in December 2006, featuring bonus tracks, remixes of "Fleur De Saison" and Opium, an exclusive short film on the making of the album and the video clip for "Fleur De Saison" on a bonus CD. So far, 5 editions of ''Végétal'' exists, each one different from each other through the inclusion of extras and bonuses. The release was accompanied by the single "Fleur de Saison", which was released on 6 February 2006. The title means "Seasonal Flower" in English. It is from her sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wurman
Alex Wurman (born October 5, 1966) is an American composer who hails from Chicago. He is best known for his film scores to ''March of the Penguins'', '' Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy'', '' Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby'', and the TV series '' Patriot''. Early life and career Wurman was born in Chicago, to parents Brenda and Hans Wurman, both musicians. His father was a Jewish arranger and composer who wowed the world of electronic music with one of the first Moog synthesizer recordings ('Moog Strikes Bach,' RCA 1969), and before that he escaped from Austria during the Anschluss period of Nazi rule. His brother was cellist Felix Wurman. Wurman attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. He went on to study at the University of Miami in Coral Gables and later the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. After moving to Los Angeles in his early twenties, Wurman began scoring films for studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Canada
English Canada comprises that part of the population within Canada, whether of British origin or otherwise, that speaks English. The term ''English Canada'' is also used for any of the following: *Describing all the provinces of Canada that have an anglophone majority. This is every province except Quebec. When used in this way, ''English Canada'' is often referred to as the "ROC" (rest of Canada). This type of usage excludes French-speaking areas in English-majority provinces like the East and North of New Brunswick, Northern and Eastern Ontario, Saint-Boniface and the few small pockets of French localities in Western Canada. It also excludes areas where a third language is widely spoken, such as German, Russian or First Nations languages. *When discussing the culture, values and lifestyles of English-speaking Canadians as opposed to those of French-speaking Canadians. This usage is most often employed to compare English- and French-language literature, media, art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
