Guy De Bièvre: "Guy De Bièvre composer, musician, arranger, sound designer, writer and sound art curator.
As a composer/performer I focus on experiments which combine computer, live electronics, acoustics and standard arrangement formats.
I had works commissioned and/or performed by musicians such as Guy Klucevsek, Seth Josel, Anne La Berge, The Bozza Mansion Project, Annette Sachs, Zivatar Trio and various local and international organizations.
As a performer next to my works, I collaborated with various composers and musicians such as Phill Niblock, Anne La Berge, Tom Hamilton, Ensemble Champ d’Action, and Peter Zummo."
memorizethesky.com: "Memorize the Sky is a collaboration between reedist Matt Bauder, bassist Zach Wallace and percussionist Aaron Siegel. The three met and began playing music together in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the late 1990’s. Since then, they have performed together as Memorize the Sky, touring around the United States, crafting their own brand of acoustic improvised music.
This first studio document of MTS’s decade-long collaboration captures the sound that defines their live sets: meticulously shaped textures, hovering or gradually unfolding. The eight improvisations presented here come from over six hours of material recorded in a barn in upstate New York in the fall of 2005." memorizethesky.com
boweavilrecordings.com: "Limited vinyl by the great experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi from Australia. A Touch label recording artist, Oren has been making music since 1986, creating sounds from the guitar that one would not expect to hear. On this LP two long tracks one per side, start from minimal low frequency sounds to ever growing drones of manipulated guitars...staggeringly beautiful!"
Radio ABC: "In 1971, 23 American college students' lives were changed by the now notorious Stanford Prison Experiment. For the eminent psychologist responsible, Philip Zimbardo, the parallels to the atrocities at Abu Ghraib are palpable. In an exclusive Australian interview, he joins Natasha Mitchell, to reflect on the capacity in all of us to commit evil. It's a case of good apples put in bad barrels." More
epd-film.de: "Quentin Tarantino und Robert Rodriguez bringen ihre neuen Filme Death Proof und Planet Terror unter dem Signum „Grindhouse“ auf den Markt. Dabei geht es den beiden befreundeten Hollywood-Outlaws nicht nur um den Film oder ein mehr oder weniger diffuses Genre, sondern vielmehr um den Ort, den schmierigen Kinosaal und das Gemeinschaftserlebnis des Filmeguckens. Wobei mit Film tatsächlich Filmmaterial, also Zelluloid oder Polyester, gemeint ist. Denn die Videokassette war noch nicht erfunden, als das Kino, das die beiden Regisseure meinen, seine seltsamen Blüten trieb." Weiter
My latest Google Hack, a true masterpiece. Create your own custom RSS feed for files hosted at Rapid Share, Megaupload, Mediafire etc. For example: you are interested in "Spanish hip hop" , this feed will provide links to "Spanish hip hop" hosted at Rapid Share etc! In most cases it won't provide the links to the hosted files directly, but what it does is provide links to blog entries where people provide links to the thing you are looking for! This feed is powered by the Google blog search, which means it is ultra fast. So almost instantly someone provides new links, your feed will be updated!
Click the link below, or keep it as a bookmark, enter something and click OK. The page you are looking at is already your custom RSS feed! Copy the URL into your feed reader and it's done!
goon-magazin.de: "In »Nightmare Detective« erzählt Tsukamoto von einer Serie mysteriöser Selbstmorde, von den Opfern im Schlaf verübt. Die Polizistin Keiko (dargestellt vom J-Popstar hitomi) wendet sich zur Unterstützung ihrer Ermittlungen an den selbst suizidalen nightmare detective Kyoichi (Ryuhei Matsuda), der über die Fähigkeit verfügt, in die Träume anderer zu sehen und einzugreifen." Weiter
dradio: "Mit einem kurzen Prolog eröffnet Georg Seeßlen seine Einblicke in die Welt des David Lynch und nennt sie gleich "Reiseberichte aus der Hölle". Seine Filme umschreibt der Autor als "scheinbar einfach, in ihrer Konstruktion sichtbar" und doch würde man ihnen als Betrachter verfallen." Weiter
wnyc.org: "Australian songwriter Nick Cave enlisted three members of his regular band, The Bad Seeds, for a raucous side project called Grinderman. Cave and drummer Jim Sclavunos join us to share the group's self-titled debut." Listen here
The WIRE: "For this fifth Angels Of Light album, Gira has again recruited acid pastoralists Akron/Family to realise his songs, which are usually composed on acoustic guitar. Some of the musicians featured on early releases New Mother (1999) and How I Loved You (2001) have returned to flesh out We Are Him's arrangements. Gira has in the past bemoaned his difficulty in resisting the temptation to obsess over sonic details, but those who found the last couple of albums a little too dry and sparse will surely enjoy this one's lusher textures. We Are Him is the most widescreen Angles album to date without ever spilling over into the production excesses of Swans; further, it retains the freshness and immediacy that is a hallmark of Akron/Family's work. Nothing feels superfluous; the instrumentation, though compellingly mercurial, in never intrusive or overwrought, allowing Gira's songwriting to command centre stage." Read the whole review
"Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now."
Matt Groening: "I was a hopeless cartoonist who couldn't quite draw well enough," he says. "But I knew I was doomed — that I was going to be drawing the rest of my life, no matter what I was doing to pay the rent." Listen to the whole interview
Ricardo Villalobos
The red-eyed Chilean DJ and Techno producer has become the toast of Berlin's minimal scene, with four-hour sets and disorientating beatdowns.
Primer: British Psych-Folk
A user's map of the misty lanes of Albion's folk rock, including Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, John Martyn, Mellow Candle, Comus, The Wicker Man and more. By Rob Young
Illustration: Edwin Pouncey
Listen to some of the music discussed in this Primer. Go to MP3 Specials
Whitehouse
It's for your own good, say extreme power electronics artists William Bennett and Philip Best, discussing their reputation as arch-transgressors of public taste. By David Keenan
Laurie Anderson
The multimedia maven rails against American foreign policy in her new Homeland performance.
Johnathan Harvey
The Buddhist spectral composer meditates on The Wire's mystery record selection.
Matthew Dear
As False, Jabberjaw and Audion, the US electronica producer toggles between pop and rougher textures. By Dave Stelfox
Download a track by Matthew Dear. Go to MP3 Specials
Axolotl
Nick Cain books a seat in the memory theatre for Karl Bauer's delirious electric violin drones
Download an exclusive unreleased track by Axolotl. Go to MP3 Specials
ard.de: "Sie trugen selbstgenähte Trainingsanzüge und bauten sich Ghettoblaster aus Monorecordern: mit der importierten Hip-Hop-Subkultur träumten DDR-Breakdancer von der Freiheit - und die Stasi bestimmte, wer auftreten durfte." Zum Artikel mit O-Ton Beiträgen
Andreas Gerth & Tied + Tickled Trio
radioeins.de: "Das "Tied + Tickled Trio" hat mit "aelita" eine neue Platte veröffentlicht - inspiriert von Filmen, Gemälden und Büchern. Es geht um Visionen, Futurismus und Science Fiction. Olaf Zimmermann begrüßte in den "elektro beats" den "Tied + Tickled Trio"- Keyboarder Andreas Gerth." Anhören
Ms John Soda
br.online.de: "Digital oder analog, Pop/Rock, Song/Track, Indie/Tronica, Hiding oder Fading? Ms John Soda wollen und müssen sich nicht entscheiden. Ms John Soda = Stefanie Böhm (auch bei Couch) + Micha Acher (auch: Notwist, Tied&Tickled Trio)" MP3 Downloads
wdr.de: "Schminken, Haare stylen, Bodybuilding - alle Menschen gestalten ihren Körper. Oft täglich und immer wieder neu. Ganz anders ist das bei Tätowierungen, einer 5000 Jahre alten Kunst-Tradition, die Seefahrer einst aus dem Pazifikraum mitbrachten nach Europa. Tattoos sind ebenso wie Piercings oder Brandzeichen gewollte Spuren, oft ein Leben lang sichtbar." Weiter Via WDR Lebenszeichen Podcast
CNN: "Today Gates openly concedes that tolerating piracy turned out to be Microsoft's best long-term strategy. That's why Windows is used on an estimated 90% of China's 120 million PCs. "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says. "Are you kidding? You can get the real thing, and you get the same price." Indeed, in China's back alleys, Linux often costs more than Windows because it requires more disks." Read on
heise.de: "Die massenhafte illegale Verbreitung von Software in China steht bei Microsoft mittlerweile in einem anderen Licht. Microsoft-Mitgründer Bill Gates hat laut einem Bericht der US-Zeitschrift Fortune eingeräumt, das Hinnehmen von "Softwarepiraterie" könne sich als beste langfristige Strategie erweisen, sich gegenüber der Konkurrenz zu behaupten." Weiter
dradio: "Mit einem kurzen Prolog eröffnet Georg Seeßlen seine Einblicke in die Welt des David Lynch und nennt sie gleich "Reiseberichte aus der Hölle". Seine Filme umschreibt der Autor als "scheinbar einfach, in ihrer Konstruktion sichtbar" und doch würde man ihnen als Betrachter verfallen." 
The WIRE: "For this fifth Angels Of Light album, Gira has again recruited acid pastoralists Akron/Family to realise his songs, which are usually composed on acoustic guitar. Some of the musicians featured on early releases New Mother (1999) and How I Loved You (2001) have returned to flesh out We Are Him's arrangements. Gira has in the past bemoaned his difficulty in resisting the temptation to obsess over sonic details, but those who found the last couple of albums a little too dry and sparse will surely enjoy this one's lusher textures. We Are Him is the most widescreen Angles album to date without ever spilling over into the production excesses of Swans; further, it retains the freshness and immediacy that is a hallmark of Akron/Family's work. Nothing feels superfluous; the instrumentation, though compellingly mercurial, in never intrusive or overwrought, allowing Gira's songwriting to command centre stage." 
