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Contrast (disk Magazine)
Contrast may refer to: Science * Contrast (vision), the contradiction in form, colour and light between parts of an image * Contrast (statistics), a combination of averages whose coefficients add up to zero, or the difference between two means * Behavioral contrast, a phenomenon studied in psychology (behavior analysis) * Contrast agent, used to distinguish structures or fluids within a body, often shortened to just "contrast" Technology * Contrast ratio, a measure of a display system * Display contrast, of electronic visual displays Language * Contrast (linguistics), expressing distinctions between words * Contrast (literary), describing the difference(s) between two or more entities Arts and entertainment Music * The Contrast (band), an English pop band formed in 1999 * Contrast (music), the difference between parts or different instrumental sounds * High Contrast, Welsh music producer and artist born in 1979 Albums * ''Contrast'' (Tages album), 1967 * ''Contrast'' (Conor M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (vision)
Contrast is the contradiction in luminance or colour that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) distinguishable. In visual perception of the real world, contrast is determined by the difference in the colour and brightness of the object and other objects within the same field of view. The human visual system is more sensitive to contrast than absolute luminance; we can perceive the world similarly regardless of the huge changes in illumination over the day or from place to place. The maximum ''contrast'' of an image is the contrast ratio or dynamic range. Images with a contrast ratio close to their medium's maximum possible contrast ratio experience a ''conservation of contrast'', wherein any increase in contrast in some parts of the image must necessarily result in a decrease in contrast elsewhere. Brightening an image will increase contrast in dark areas but decrease contrast in bright areas, while darkening the image will have the opposite effect. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (Conor Maynard Album)
''Contrast'' is the debut studio album by British pop singer Conor Maynard. It was released on 30 July 2012 in the United Kingdom through Parlophone and across Europe between August and October. ''Contrast'' mainly includes production from The Invisible Men, who produced seven of the fourteen songs available on the album, along with production from Pharrell Williams, Stargate, Benny Blanco, Midi Mafia, Crada, Lucas Secon, Quiz & Larossi, and Eagle Eye, among others, and features guest appearances from American recording artists Ne-Yo and Pharrell Williams, as well as British singer Rita Ora. ''Contrast'' was recorded between 2011 and 2012 and its album's music consists of pop and R&B. The album's lead single " Can't Say No" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 2. The second single "Vegas Girl" was released the same day as ''Contrast'', entering at number 4. Another two singles were released after the album release. The album peaked at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, and cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Contrast (novel)
''The Contrast'' is an 1832 novel by the British writer and politician Lord Normanby, originally published in three volumes. It was his third novel following ''Matilda'' (1825) and ''Yes and No'' (1828), all three of which were part of the developing silver fork genre focused on the fashionable aristocracy and upper classes of the late Regency period. It was written at the time of the Reform Act and examines the mixing of relationships across classes. Synopsis Lord Castleton is in love with Lady Gertrude, but is separated from her by the plot of a fortune hunter. While in the North of England he falls in love on the rebound with a country girl, Lucy Darnell and marries her. However, when he brings her back to London he finds her plain ways and accent an embarrassment, while she is very uncomfortable in high society. The kindly Gertrude befriends her and tries to assist her integration in London fashion. When Gertrude realises that she and Castleton still have strong feelings for ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Contrast (play)
''The Contrast'', written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's ''The School for Scandal'', a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before. Royall uses the form to satirize Americans who follow British fashions and indulge in 'British vices'. Thus, the play is often concerned with portraying the contrast between European and American culture. ''The Contrast'' is the first comedy written by an American citizen that was professionally produced. The play begins with a prologue written in heroic couplets A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter. Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the ''Legend of .... The play itself, a comedy of manners, evaluates home-made versus foreign goods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (video Game)
''Contrast'' is a puzzle-based platform style video game developed by Compulsion Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and NVIDIA Shield. Gameplay The game is set in a noir atmosphere aesthetically inspired by Belle Epoque and Art Nouveau. The player must solve puzzles that require movement between the physical world, which is represented as 3D, and shadows, which are represented as 2D. The player may sometimes manipulate different light sources in the 3D world (spotlights, film projectors, etc.) to create the shadow paths that reach into new areas; "collectibles", available through game-play, offer insight into the game's characters and the world in which they live. The goal of the game is exploration and discovery through problem solving. Dawn and Didi are the two characters who appear as full 3D figures. The player controls Dawn, an imaginary friend, who is able to manifest as a three-dimensional shadow. Dawn is able to jump between t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Kitajima
, better known as TK, is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He rose to prominence as lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Ling tosite Sigure, which formed in 2002. In 2011, he started to release solo material as . Biography TK started his solo career with a limited DVD titled ''Film A Moment''. Released in 2011, the DVD features a photobook and a movie shot on 8mm film that acts as a music video for the three tracks on the disc. TK's first album, ''Flowering'', was released on June 27, 2012 and featured alternate versions of "Film A Moment" and "White Silence" (both being originally featured on the DVD release ''Film A Moment'') along with seven new tracks and an additional hidden track titled "Sound_am326." The limited press version featured a live studio session (DVD) of selected tracks from the album directed by P.B. Anderson. Musicians such as BOBO from Miyavi Crew, and Hidekazu Hinata from Nothing's Carved in Stone featured on the album. Kitajim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal Aout 42
Signal Aout 42, also known as SA42, is a Belgian electronic music band. Initially active in the 1980s, Signal Aout 42 became known for producing music in the EBM and industrial styles of electronic music, but into and through the 1990s also incorporated techno, acid, and trance styles. After a decade-long hiatus, the band became active again in the late 2000s. History Signal Aout 42 formed in 1981, initially under the name Signal, as an informal live improvisation project of schoolmates Jacky Meurisse, Damien Vandamme, and Luc Vandamme. The group's initial performances consisted of audio-visual collages of industrial noises including chainsaws and metal barrels played to rhythms generated by drum machines and synthetic sound atmospheres using borrowed and non-instruments. Although the techniques and sound of the band's early performances were decidedly industrial in nature, the band drew inspiration from punk and new wave acts including Fad Gadget, Killing joke, Sex Pistols, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klinik
Klinik, (sometimes called The Klinik), is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. History Marc Verhaeghen originally formed Klinik in the early-to-mid 1980s; the exact date varies depending on the source. The group is normally described as one of the most influential Belgian industrial bands in history. In 1985, Verhaeghen joined forces with two other bands, Absolute Body Control (with Dirk Ivens and Eric van Wonterghem), and "The Maniacs" (Sandy Nijs) to form one "super group" "Absolute Controlled Clinical Maniacs". This rather unwieldy name was soon dropped in favour of the shorter name "The Klinik". Through their connection with Sandy Nijs and his involvement in the international cassette trading network, Klinik received an offer to tour Norway in 1985. Nijs soon left the band to form "Hybryds", followed in 1987 by van Wonterghem, leaving The Klinik as the "class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emi Maria
Emi Maria (stylized as EMI MARIA; born 9 June 1987) is a Japanese Papua New Guinean R&B singer-songwriter who debuted in 2007 with the EP ''Between the Music''. Biography Emi Maria was born in 1987 in Papua New Guinea. Her mother is Japanese-New Guinean, while her father is Papua New Guinean. She spent the first five years of her life in Papua New Guinea, before moving to Kobe in Japan. She first started listening to R&B at 6 due to her sister, listening to such artists as Janet and Michael Jackson, and K-Ci & JoJo. She began writing lyrics in junior high school. By high school, she had started writing music and producing her own tracks. She participated in the MTV Star Tour, and started performing lives in the Kansai area from 2006 onwards. In 2007, she started appearing on many different Japanese urban artists' albums as a guest artist, such as Seeda and MC Moggy. In 2007, Emi Maria released her first EP, ''Between the Music'' on Freest Inc., a label she had created for he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (EP)
''Contrast'' is a five-song EP and the first release from the Tennessee-based band The Features following their departure from Universal Records. The band released the EP on their own on October 25, 2006 via their website and then later via traditional music outlets. This is also the first release to feature new keyboardist Mark Bond (formerly of Murfreesboro band De Novo Dahl) following the departure of Parrish Yaw. Track listing Personnel ;The Features *Matt Pelham – vocals, guitar *Rollum Haas – drums *Roger Dabbs – bass *Mark Bond – keyboards ;Additional musicians *Chris Carmichael – strings on "I Will Wander" *Deanna Varagona – Bari Sax on "Wooden Heart" ;Technical personnel *Jacquire King – production, recording, mixing *J.D. Andrew – recording *Joshua Hood – recording assistant *John Stinson – recording assistant *The Features The Features are an American indie rock band from Sparta, Tennessee, United States of America. The original lineup cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (Matt Fax Album)
''Contrast'' is the first studio album by the French electronic producer and DJ Matt Fax, released by Enhanced Music on 6 October 2017. The album contains the singles "Aura Lusia", "Amnesiac" and "Close 2 U" (with Mike Schmid). Background Matt started working on this album for four years, stating it's been a project he always wanted to do. In 2016, Enhanced Music approached him to release an album, which he accepted. He told IHouseU that some tracks been written several years ago but were reworked to fit his nowadays sound. The first single, "Aura Lusia", was released as part of an EP and was included on the album after the Pete Tong support on BBC Radio 1. During the summer, Matt released "Amnesiac" and "Close 2 U" as singles to announce the album. "Close 2 U" has been rated 8.0/10 by ''DJ Mag'', stating it was "far outclassing anything similar we've heard from deadmau5 in at least a decade". On 17 October, Matt made a 20-minute guest mix and interview with Armin van Buuren in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contrast (Tages Album)
''Contrast'' is the fourth studio album by Swedish pop band Tages, released on 28 April 1967 through Parlophone Records. ''Contrast'' was preceded by a tumultuous period in Tages' career, in which drummer Tommy Tausis left the band for the Spotnicks only days before recording commenced. The album is the first to feature Tausis' replacement Lasse Svensson, who would stay with the group until 1969. It was also Tages' first album to be released through Parlophone, following three albums by independent record label Platina. Parlophone guaranteed Tages free studio time, resulting in the sessions for ''Contrast''. Musically, ''Contrast'' features the soul-pop style present on their third album ''Extra Extra'', but also expands on Tages and producer Anders Henriksson's willingness to experiment with psychedelic music, resulting in a variety of studio effects applied onto the tracks, including backmasking and reverberation. ''Contrast'' was recorded during the first three months of 1967 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
