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The composer reimagining Secret of Mana, Zelda, and other SNES soundtracks with analog synths
Last year, composer Will Patterson released a curious concept album: it featured nine tracks from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but the classic chiptune bleeps were replaced with analog synthesizers. It lent an iconic soundtrack a new, more intense feeling. Now Patterson is back, taking the same approach to reimagine the music of another SNES game, Secret of Mana. “It all started as a weekend project,” he tells The Verge, “but it became more popular than my own pop music, so I decided to turn it into a series.”
A digital version of Secret of Mana is available to buy now on Bandcamp, though you can also grab it on both vinyl and cassette; preorders for the physical editions start today. And while the theme is similar, the new…
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Burgundy’s Hospices de Beaune Raises Nearly $16.2 Million (Wine Spectator)
Burgundy’s Hospices de Beaune charity wine auction celebrated its 158th year by raising a new record total for health and education causes. This year’s auction, on Nov. 18, generated nearly 14.2 million euros, or $16.2 million, from its sale of 631 barrel lots of red wines and 197 lots of whites, just over last year’s 13.5 million euro total.
“We are amazed and very proud of this year’s record,” François Poher, director of the Hospices de Beaune, told Wine Spectator. “As it’s an auction, we do not really have a specific goal; we never know how bidders will react in the auction room.”
The average barrel price at the auction was $19,150, an increase from last year, which was “largely due to the success of the grands crus,” said Poher. The Bâtard-Montrachet grand cru lot sold at the highest single-barrel price in the auction’s history, for 135,000 euros, or $155,000.
This year, enthusiasm in the auction room was high, Poher noted, particularly during the auction’s traditional Pièce des Présidents portion. French actors Nathalie Baye, Emmanuelle Béart and Pascal Elbé and writer Erik Orsenna all took the podium to encourage buyer participation in that part of the sale, which included two lots: Corton Clos du Roi grand cru and Meursault Les Genevrières premier cru. The combined lots brought in $260,000 for three foundations aimed at improving global health and education.
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Volcanoes fed by ‘mush’ reservoirs rather than molten magma chambers
Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers finds a new study, overturning classic ideas about volcanic eruptions.
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