Music: Massive Attack, Hindi Zahra, Gonjasufi...
31 Jan 2010 01:43 AM / Filed in: Music
It's been quite some time that I haven't written anything about Music. Looking back at my blog archives, my last Music related post dates back to February 6, 2009 Wow, almost a year now... So I thought I can give you some news about what I am listening to currently or at least what I am planning to listen to (read: to be released Music).
At this exact moment, I am listening to the original soundtrack of Nanga Parbat, by Gustavo Santaolalla. I haven't seen the movie and I kind of stumbled upon this soundtrack on eMusic and after sampling it, I decided to download it and here I am listening to it and so far, I really like it.
On February 8, 2010, a few albums worth mentioning are expected to hit the shelves. Of course, there is Massive Attack's Heligoland which I sampled on iTunes and I really like what I heard. I like the atmosphere of their Music. I remember listening on and on to Protection and Mezzanine. That was years ago. Those who never heard Angel, Teardrop or Karmacoma (when Tricky was still a member of the band) have some real catchup to do ;-).
Sade is also coming back with Soldier of Love. I am totally in love with Sade's voice. It is so enthralling and soothing I just can't express how I feel when it reaches my ears. Her previous album, Lovers Rock is among my favorite ones. It was released 10 years ago. Yeah, that's quite a long time.
On the mystical side of things, I've discovered an interesting piece while reading one of the blog posts of my favorite Music magazine, Vibrations. It's about an artist called Gonjasufi. His Music is unlike anything I've heard before. At this time, I can't tell whether I like or not. His album, A Sufi and A Killer, should be released in early March 2010 by Warp Records. In the meantime, there are four songs available on the artist's page at Warp Records for free: Candylane, KowboyzandIndians, Ancestors, and Holidays.
Last but not least, I wanted to tell you about Hindi Zahra, a Moroccan artist with a marvelous voice. Her Jazzy/Folkish Music is very refreshing and pleasing to the ears. Watch her very Beautiful Tango videoclip, directed by Tony Gatlif and see her singing Imik Simik live:
At this exact moment, I am listening to the original soundtrack of Nanga Parbat, by Gustavo Santaolalla. I haven't seen the movie and I kind of stumbled upon this soundtrack on eMusic and after sampling it, I decided to download it and here I am listening to it and so far, I really like it.
On February 8, 2010, a few albums worth mentioning are expected to hit the shelves. Of course, there is Massive Attack's Heligoland which I sampled on iTunes and I really like what I heard. I like the atmosphere of their Music. I remember listening on and on to Protection and Mezzanine. That was years ago. Those who never heard Angel, Teardrop or Karmacoma (when Tricky was still a member of the band) have some real catchup to do ;-).
Sade is also coming back with Soldier of Love. I am totally in love with Sade's voice. It is so enthralling and soothing I just can't express how I feel when it reaches my ears. Her previous album, Lovers Rock is among my favorite ones. It was released 10 years ago. Yeah, that's quite a long time.
On the mystical side of things, I've discovered an interesting piece while reading one of the blog posts of my favorite Music magazine, Vibrations. It's about an artist called Gonjasufi. His Music is unlike anything I've heard before. At this time, I can't tell whether I like or not. His album, A Sufi and A Killer, should be released in early March 2010 by Warp Records. In the meantime, there are four songs available on the artist's page at Warp Records for free: Candylane, KowboyzandIndians, Ancestors, and Holidays.
Last but not least, I wanted to tell you about Hindi Zahra, a Moroccan artist with a marvelous voice. Her Jazzy/Folkish Music is very refreshing and pleasing to the ears. Watch her very Beautiful Tango videoclip, directed by Tony Gatlif and see her singing Imik Simik live:
Gaining Insight Through Security Visualization
While still immature, the Security Vizualisation field has quite the potential to change the way we analyze the mounds of (ever-growing) data that security and network devices as well as applications and operating systems produce.
Instead of sifting through text and using the usual arsenal of tools (grep, perl, sed, awk...) to parse it, filter it and normalize it into yet other text for which our visual system is not well suited, Security Vizualisation leverages our eyes and brain as powerful, parallel pattern seekers to create graph that aid us in isolating patterns, finding hidden relationships or making sense out of dull-looking, seemingly boring data. As Raffael Marty said:
Instead of sifting through text and using the usual arsenal of tools (grep, perl, sed, awk...) to parse it, filter it and normalize it into yet other text for which our visual system is not well suited, Security Vizualisation leverages our eyes and brain as powerful, parallel pattern seekers to create graph that aid us in isolating patterns, finding hidden relationships or making sense out of dull-looking, seemingly boring data. As Raffael Marty said:
A picture is worth a thousand log records
To put it simply, Security Vizualisation allows to transform data into information into insight. But remember that this is still a very young field and there are quite numerous pitfalls. Also, industrial-grade tools are very rare. I've introduced this field and presented two real world examples where I leveraged the power of Security Visualization for problem solving in a talk I gave yesterday at the January 2010 monthly meeting of OSSIR Paris. The slides are available online.