Also of interest to some members of this group is the modification of computer hardware and other electronic devices, see modding.

Every two months IMU publishes an electronic newsletter, IMU-Net, that aims to improve communication between IMU and the worldwide mathematical community by reporting on decisions and recommendations of the Union, major international mathematical events and developments, and on other topics of general mathematical interest.

After a flurry of interest in America following the end of the Second World War, the theremin soon fell into disuse with serious musicians, mainly because newer electronic instruments were introduced that were easier to play.

With q as the electronic charge, is the wavelength of interest, h is Planck's constant, c is the speed of light, k is Boltzmann's constant, T is the temperature of the detector, is the zero-bias dynamic resistance area product ( often measured experimentally, but also expressible in noise level assumptions ), is the quantum efficiency of the device, and is the total flux of the source ( often a blackbody ) in photons / sec / cm².

Containing electronic sounds and more minimal guitar work, the album was marked by Albarn's growing interest in hip hop and African music.

Psion PLC had a lengthy, but distant, interest in Linux as an operating system on its electronic devices.

The web board became very dedicated to expanding the shrinking reader base for printed works by using the electronic internet to recapture interest.

During this early period the innovative electronic approaches to music in the Workshop began to attract some significant young talent including Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and John Baker, who was in fact a jazz pianist with an interest in reverse tape effects.

ENIAC administrator and security officer Herman Goldstine distributed copies of this First Draft to a number of government and educational institutions, spurring widespread interest in the construction of a new generation of electronic computing machines, including EDSAC at Cambridge England and SEAC at the U. S. Bureau of Standards.

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.

In the new millennium, renewed interest in electronic music and nostalgia for the 1980s led to the beginnings of a synthpop revival, with acts including Adult and Fischerspooner.

In response to a commission for a piece to accompany light-and water-shows on the Seine during the Paris Exposition, in 1937 Messiaen demonstrated his interest in using the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument, by composing Fêtes des belles eaux for an ensemble of six.

Despite being well received by critics as their best album since Dare ( the music climate at the time seeing a new interest in electronic pop music with the electroclash movement ), the band's new record label, Papillon developed financial problems, and was closed by the parent company shortly after the album's release, leading to poor promotion and sales.

In the early 1990s however, musicians from the techno, rave and DJ scenes who were interested in producing electronic music, but without the budget for large digital systems, began to take an interest in the then cheap second hand analog equipment available.

As their mutual interest in electronic music became clear the pair decided that they would work instead upon Leftfield, once Barnes had extricated himself from his now troublesome contract with Rhythm King subsidiary, Outer Rhythm.

Vibert originally became involved in electronic music through his interest in hip-hop as well as the environment of bedroom experimentalism associated with the swelling late 1980s UK dance scene.

Since the late 1990s, there has been a resurgence in the popularity of analog synthesizers spurred on by physical standardization practices, an increase in ' retro ' gear and interest, decreased production costs and increased electronic reliability and stability, the rediscovered ability of modules to control things other than sound, and a generally heightened education through the development of virtual synthesis systems such as MAX / MSP and Pd.

In a 2009 interview he said, " In the last few years, the interest in electronic music has gone back up, the quality of the music has gone back up, there ’ s a buzz which reminds you of the early days ,” he insists.

Because the electronic age makes conducting business across state borders an everyday occurrence, there is a critical need for states to adopt a uniform mobility system that will allow licensed CPAs to provide services across state lines without unnecessary burdens that do not protect the public interest.

The public can keep up on developments in the Copyright Office by subscribing to U. S. Copyright Office NewsNet, a free electronic mailing list that issues periodic email messages to alert subscribers to hearings, deadlines for comments, new and proposed regulations, new publications, and other copyright-related subjects of interest.

Besides composing and conducting orchestral scores for television and film, Gray developed an interest in the Ondes Martenot, which he used to produce unconventional musical notes as well as electronic sound effects in several of his scores, perhaps most notably those for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and Doppelgänger.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Of particular interest to 20th-century music theorists is the attention he paid to silence as an integral part of music.

To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.

His interest in music led him to fund construction of 7, 000 church organs.

His instrumental music, though not without interest, is curiously antiquated as compared with his vocal works.

In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.

Jensen has had a lifelong interest in classical music and was, early in his life, attracted by the idea of becoming a conductor himself.

They shared an interest in music, and teamed up as " Buddy and Bob ".

Bartók's large-scale orchestral works were still in the style of Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, but he wrote a number of small piano pieces which showed his growing interest in folk music.

Their growing interest in folk music coincided with a contemporary social interest in traditional national culture.

There was little American interest in his music during his final years.

Jefferson's music is uninhibited and represented the classic sounds of everyday life from a honky-tonk to a country picnic to street corner blues to work in the burgeoning oil fields, a reflection too of his interest in mechanical things.

The revival of baroque music in the 1960s and ' 70s sparked renewed interest in 17th and 18th century dance styles.

He was more impressed, however, by the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church, as well as an interest in the guitar.

Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany have living traditions of language and music, and there has been a recent major revival of interest in Wales, Cornwall and the Isle of Man.

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

The upright bass began making a modest comeback in popular music in the mid-1980s, in part due to a renewed interest in earlier forms of rock and country music.

The song had been inspired by Joel Dorn ’ s son and reflected McLean ’ s interest in 1930s music.

Even though Eva Sapir was an important influence, Sapir received his lust for knowledge and interest in scholarship, aesthetics and music from his father.

Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.