Taking a breather from the Free Kitten snazz (while Miss Julie births Alice and teaches inner city high school, Yoshimi lives about 10,000 miles away and Mark Ibold is aswamp in the madness that is Pavement) Sonic Youth's femme-mystere Kim Gordon has created a distinctly new trio of spontaneous composition and prose. Since reclaiming the electric guitar (her original instrument with the Sonic Youth) and developing a newfound post-Patty Waters free-vox technique, she has enjoined her vision with the improvisational meta-talents of Ikue Mori (ex-drummer of no wave legends DNA, currently in a class by herself with other-world sampling) and DJ Olive (of the wizardly We, coiner of the ill term "illbient" and regarded by those in the heavy underground of postbeat turntable/drum'n'whatever as "the heaviest").<a href=www.midheaven.com">More info and download
Buck 65, real name Richard Tefry, was born and raised in a small town in Nova Scotia. Although he had dreams of becoming a baseball player and was even scouted by the New York Yankees, he turned his attention to music and is now adding a new and funky take to the hip-hop sound. Influenced mainly by his hometown surroundings, Buck 65 is moving music to a another level and creating much, much more than your average radio-friendly tune.More at allmusic.com
Ich wollte eigentlich schon ein Weilchen auf das Online Magazin Die Gegenwart hinweisen, hab's allerdings vergessen, bis ich heute bei Sum 1 selbst wieder darauf sties. Hier mal der aktuelle Newsletter:
DIE GEGENWART. Online-Magazin für Medienjournalismus.
Ausgabe Nr. 37 vom 29.04.2004
Schwerpunkt: Das öffentliche Private
Der Datenstrom aus elektronisch erhobenen Details ergibt längst ein präzises Bild unserer finanziellen Verhältnisse und Kaufgewohnheiten, unserer Krankheiten und Behinderungen, unserer Mobilität und sexuellen Vorlieben. Und wir haben Angst, dass durch die systematische Verkettung der Details zu viel Privates für Behörden oder Unternehmen verfügbar werden könnte. Aber im Fernsehen ist alles anders.
Bilderstrecke Visual Leader 2004
Unter dem Titel "Visual Leader 2004 - Das Beste aus deutschen Zeitschriften" wurde Die Gegenwart zusammen mit den anderen in diesem Jahr ausgezeichneten Medien im März in den Hamburger Deichtorhallen (Internationales Haus der Photographie) ausgestellt. In der Bilderstrecke finden Sie einige Impressionen der Ausstellung.
„Manche sehen in die Tiefe, manche in die Höhe“
Interview mit Rechtsanwalt Jens O. Brelle
Von Björn Brückerhoff
Der Medien- und Kunstszene gilt das Interesse des Rechtsanwaltes Jens Olaf Brelle. Seit Herbst 2002 ist Brelle, Jahrgang 1968, mit seiner Kanzlei Art-Lawyer Ansprechpartner für die Medienschaffenden und Kreativen in Hamburg. Sein Büro hat Brelle in der historischen Speicherstadt. Die Gegenwart sprach mit dem Anwalt über Toleranz, rechtliche Grenzen der Fernsehunterhaltung und die Beständigkeit der Zauberformel "Sex sells".
Das MoMA in Berlin
Von Marc Lauterfeld, LL..M.
Das Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, zeigt noch bis zum 19. September 2004 in der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin über 200 seiner bedeutendsten Werke. Die Ausstellung – ein Publikumsmagnet mit Besucherschlangen, die an den Wochenenden zeitweise einmal um das Gebäude herum reichen – präsentiert die Kunst der Moderne in seltener Bandbreite und Qualität. Zugleich ist mit dem MoMA eine Institution zu Gast, die als Paradebeispiel für das dem Gemeinwohl gewidmete öffentliche Private gelten kann, denn die Gründung des MoMA ist ohne den Einsatz dreier Vertreterinnen der New Yorker Gesellschaft nicht denkbar.
Die Kulissenschieber
Von Björn Brückerhoff
Hilfe, die Peilwagen kommen. Urbane Legenden ranken sich seit ihrer Gründung um eine der "geheimnisvollsten deutschen Behörden" (SZ Magazin). In Kinospots und Werbeanzeigen könnte das selbst aufgebaute Negativ-Image der Gebühreneinzugszentrale, kurz GEZ, korrigiert werden. Doch die Außendarstellung der GEZ klärt nicht auf, wirbt nicht mit Qualität für Verständnis. Sie gießt Öl ins Feuer.
Fünf Fragen – Zehn Antworten mit Bodo H. Hauser
Von Christoph König
In der Gegenwart-Reihe Fünf Fragen – Zehn Antworten konfrontiert Die Gegenwart Experten mit fünf Fragestellungen und fünf Bildern. Was die Befragten aus dieser Aufgabe machen, bleibt ihnen überlassen. In dieser Ausgabe der Gegenwart hat Bodo H. Hauser, der Programmgeschäftsführer des Fernsehsenders Phoenix, die Herausforderung angenommen.
Die Bewegte Nation
Von Jons M. Schiemann, M.A.
Zur Zeit ist die Aufregung wieder einmal groß. Dabei geht es gar nicht mal um die geplanten Verschärfungen der Sicherheit, wie z.B. Retinascanner, digitaler Fingerabdruck und Videoüberwachungen öffentlicher Plätze. Es geht um einen anderen Big Brother. Nämlich um die gleichnamige Sendung, die zum wiederholtem Male auf RTL 2 läuft. Eine Kandidatin namens Sandra wurde nach öffentlichem Druck aus dem Container geworfen, weil sie ein kleines Kind hat und sich im Fernsehknast naturgemäß nicht darum kümmern kann. So schallte es im Blätterwald „Rabenmutter“, die Politikerherde blökte am lautesten und die kirchlichen Schäfer wollten das Lamm heimholen.
Die Kunst kennt keine Tabus
Von RA Jens O. Brelle
Darf die Kunst alles? Zensur und die rechtlichen Grenzen der Erotik und Pornografie in Kunst, Werbung und Medien. Erläutert vom Hamburger Medienanwalt Jens Olaf Brelle.
Mama ist doch die Beste
Von Marion Buk-Kluger
TL 2 macht Trendsetting nach dem Motto „Mama ist doch die Beste“. Der Preis: ganz Deutschland sieht zu und erlebt die Top-Mutter mal heulend, mal schimpfend und manchmal gar hysterisch.
Die ewige Wiederholung
Von Stephan Isernhagen, Paris
Das Private im Reality-TV ist nicht mehr als eine bloße Kopie unserer Gesellschaft: in und durch sie werden Verhaltensnormen tradiert, eingeübt und wiederholt. Dadurch erscheinen diese TV-Formate berechenbarer und gefahrenloser, als in der öffentlichen Debatte angenommen.
One of the most important names in contemporary Japanese cinema, Shinya Tsukamoto has done groundbreaking work in arousing international attention for Japanese film. When his still powerful, independently made, black-and-white Tetsuo: the Iron Man (1989) toured an unprecedented number of festivals in the late 80s and early 90s, many western eyes turned eastward with renewed interest. More
New releases in Germany: Reviews @ asiancineweb.de Hiruko - The Goblin
"Letztlich weder Meisterwerk noch Kunst, doch allemal von Nutzen seinen niederen Instinkten zu frönen. "Hiruko", ein deftig trashiger Monsterromp für Freunde blutverspritzer Freakshows mit zwinkerndem Blick auf das Genre." A Snake of June
Das Kino der Gefühle ist immer auch ein Kino der Extreme. – Im Falle Tsukamoto, ein Purgatorium in tristem Blau. – Besonders sehenswert.
The "light" version of "Tetsuo - the iron man" would be "Electric Dragon 80000V" by Sogo Ishii. From imdb.com: but there's less of the "biting down on aluminum foil" effect you get from Tetsuo.
I completly agree with midnighteye.com: Words cannot begin to describe this film. A 55-minute hyperkinetic descent into electro-charged punk madness, set to an eardrum-shattering industrial punk/noise soundtrack, Electric Dragon 80,000 V transcends film to become an overwhelming, all-immersing experience. Just hope and pray that you still have all your brain cells after you emerge from it.
"Frau Kächele & Frau Peters" heißt eine Comic-Show, die von Okt. 1986 bis zum Ende von SDR 3 im Aug. 1998 gesendet wurde. Die wilden "Hefezopf-Weiber" sind die ersten Kult-Figuren des "Wilden Südens" und erschienen pro Woche mit 1 bis 2 neuen Ausgaben.
The Mashin' of the Christ
"San Francisco's Negativeland have long been known to court public controversy as an integral part of their "fair use" art. So when a press release appeared on the group's website last week announcing that hackers had stolen their "top-sacred-for-internal-use-only" project,The Mashin' of the Christ, and it was now appearing online in various peer-to-peer file trading networks (the website offers detailed instructions on how to find it), it was clear the group was up to new tricks. The five-minute film is an exquisitely rendered video mash-up culled from a combination of decrypted footage ripped from DVDs rented from Netflix and Blockbuster, "found" 16mm film footage, original CGI, and films obtained from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks — including images of a beaten and crucified Jesus borrowed from more than 30 films like Ben Hur, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Last Temptation of Christ,and Mel Gibson's current blockbuster. The soundtrack is Negativeland's seminal 1987 release, "Christianity Is Stupid," from their breakthrough SST album Escape from Noise. The track, with its chant of "Christianity is stupid, Communism is good" was itself part of an earlier uproar that helped bring the group wider public attention: when Negativeland canceled a national tour by issuing a press release falsely claiming the track had inspired a real-life Minnesota mass murder, it sparked a national media firestorm (which the group promptly turned into their next project, Helter Stupid). As the issues of intellectual property in the digital age take on international importance — and Gibson's Passion takes its place as one of the highest grossing films of all time — Negativeland's fearless and playful projects are more timely than ever." Stolen from the Earplug Newsletter
"The artist as Vulcan; music as literal test by fire. Think how often the symbolism of metalworking creeps into writing about improvised music [...] - and it's clear tht the connection between the two sides of Steve Hubback's art works at a deep level, not just as a nicely hegged career desission, you also want to picture what extraordianry thing is making these shimmering sounds. It's aperfect synthesia, the ear hearing and the ear seeing." [WIRE 243, page 14]
The German sound and radio artist Felix Kubin and the experimental electronic artist Wojtek Kucharczyk from Poland meet for a noisy national match in several sets, patching very typical, striking elements of their respective culture and confronting these with eachother. Annulment of borderlines. It's all about getting to know eachother without diplomacy - soundwise referring to traditions like gang fights, disputes, and posing: Besides sounds of everyday life, as well as chopped political pitches, street sounds, from bars, clubs, and underground shafts, also randomly picked up material and short fragments of music from one's own cultural heritage are used to outgo the other player by means of wit, inventiveness, speed or simply by acting as a loudmouth. Just like with pinball or computer games, an acoustic signal defines when it's time to take turns; it's also possible to overlay different sound sources. Right in the sense of a collage-like musique-concrète, the noisy, the experimental elements are focused on. More
Was born 1968 in Graz, Austria. She studied composition with Erich Urbanner at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts.Her MA thesis was on the use of music in the Alain Resnais film "L 'amour à mort ". During that period she also studied at the Electroacoustic Institute. During 1985-86 she studied composition and theory with Elinor Armer at the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, a well as fine art and film at the Art College. From 1993-94 she studied with Tristan Murail in Paris, and took part in the "Stage d 'Informatique Musicale" at IRCAM, Paris. Her opera "Bählamms Fest " was performed during the "Wiener Festwochen" in 1999. She is working on an opera following the film "Lost Highway" by David Lynch for 2003. Taken from: www.kairos-music.com
Stand-alone software, which can be downloaded for free from Sony's new Sony Connect online music store, is needed to purchase tunes. That could be a turn-off for consumers, according to Jarad Carleton, an IT industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan in Palo Alto, California.
More here:
www.technewsworld.com
Very often blogs are linking to articles in the New York Post. But in order to read those articles you have to be registered.
But there is a method to get arround the registration process. By using the the google news search funtion to search for the headline of the specific article, the registration procedure will be needless. By following the links from the Google search results, you don't have to register.
When I googled for this article, two results were provided. An "anhanced" one and a normal one. To distinguish those links, put your mouse courser above the links provided by Google. By doing so, a little colored field should appear over the link, showing the URL, the anhanced one should end like this: partner=GOOGLE. If the colored field doesnt appear, look at the bootom of your browser window the URL should also be shown.
Bardo Pond was the flagship band of Philly's "Psychedelphia" space rock movement, which also included the likes of Aspera, Asteroid No. 4, the Azusa Plane, and tangentially the Lilys. Explicitly drug-inspired -- their titles were filled with obscure references to psychedelics -- they favored lengthy, deliberate sound explorations filled with all the hallmarks of modern-day space rock: droning guitars, thick distortion, feedback, reverb, and washes of white noise. Hints of blues structure often cropped up, but Bardo Pond's earliest roots lay with avant-garde noisemakers from the realm of free jazz and from New York's no wave movement and downtown Knitting Factory scene. More
KK Null is widely and correctly lauded as one of the fathers of Japanese noise guitar... [THE WIRE Issue 243, May 2004 page 68]
K.K. Null has always lived outside the boundaries of the ordinary and mundane. As a member of the heavy rock trio Zeni Geva he's built a reputation as an artist to be reckoned with, but it's his solo work that has earned him a devout following in avant-noise circles. Null has released records on labels like Charnel Music, NUX Organisation, Manifold, and Fourth Dimension and has played with Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, John Zorn, Fred Frith and many more. He was also a member of the Sensurround Orchestra. GeV, Null's first release for Staalplaat, shows Null taking sampling to the extreme, either chopping up sounds beyond belief or looping them into a roller-coaster ride of noise and feedback. Like a roller-coaster, these songs are both fun and scary -- upon first listen the music seems harsh and overbearing, but the variety and range of sounds quickly becomes mesmerizing and entertaining.
Autechre: The Master Draftsmen
TEXT Anna Chapman IMAGES David Axelbank
Since 1993, British duo Autechre have embodied experimental techno’s bolder agenda: to disrupt the listener and presage the shape of sounds to come. Their Siskel-and-Ebert-style critiques of technology, pop music and society reflect their love-hate relationship with the world around them-one in which they continue to forge significant breakthroughs in how we think of and hear electronic music. More
Allofmp3 is an online music store, but it's so cheap that it might as well be free. You pay by the gigabyte; 1 gigabyte costs $10. That means that 10 bucks gets you about 18 hours of music (at 128 kbps Ogg Vorbis -- more than good enough quality for me, YMMV). It doesn't get cheaper than that.
It's a Russian company so you may not trust them, but you don't have to -- you can charge your account using PayPal, so they don't ever get any personal data from you other than your email address.
They have a huge selection of mainstream and non-mainstream stuff, about 200,000 songs in total. And the best thing - it's not illegal. (This is not so much important from a moral but from a practical standpoint - they can provide reliable high speed access to the goods.) They have a licensing agreement with the Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems which allows them to sell these songs in bulk; the same kind of agreement Russian radio stations have. Read the whole article
Buck 65, real name Richard Tefry, was born and raised in a small town in Nova Scotia. Although he had dreams of becoming a baseball player and was even scouted by the New York Yankees, he turned his attention to music and is now adding a new and funky take to the hip-hop sound. Influenced mainly by his hometown surroundings, Buck 65 is moving music to a another level and creating much, much more than your average radio-friendly tune.
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K.K. Null has always lived outside the boundaries of the ordinary and mundane. As a member of the heavy rock trio Zeni Geva he's built a reputation as an artist to be reckoned with, but it's his solo work that has earned him a devout following in avant-noise circles. Null has released records on labels like Charnel Music, NUX Organisation, Manifold, and Fourth Dimension and has played with Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow, John Zorn, Fred Frith and many more. He was also a member of the Sensurround Orchestra. GeV, Null's first release for Staalplaat, shows Null taking sampling to the extreme, either chopping up sounds beyond belief or looping them into a roller-coaster ride of noise and feedback. Like a roller-coaster, these songs are both fun and scary -- upon first listen the music seems harsh and overbearing, but the variety and range of sounds quickly becomes mesmerizing and entertaining.
