tokafi.com: "A continous stream of great compositions: Classical Music, New/Avantgarde Music, Experimental, Electronics, Drones, Ambient and Classicaly inspired pieces. No talk, just music."
dradio.de: "Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann? Oder eigentlich eine Frau? Oder gibt es ein drittes Geschlecht? Terre Thaemlitz ist auf der Suche nach Antworten. In Tokio ist Thaemlitz schon lange eine Untergrundikone. In Berlin hat er jetzt auf dem MaerzMusik-Festival für aktuelle Musik sein Projekt "Trans-Sister-Radio" vorgestellt." Weiter
thewire.co.uk: "Here's one answer to that question. Designers Paul Wilson and James Smith took pdf files of the covers from all 12 issues of The Wire produced in 2005, converted them to sound files and produced this 12 minute mix, archived here as a downloadable mp3" More info + download
tech-recipes.com: "MySpace allows you to listen to a lot of songs; however, only a few of them can be downloaded. This little work-around will allow you to download most music files." Read on
wikipedia.org: "Ran Blake (April 20, 1935 - ) is an eccentric American pianist and faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. He spearheaded the "Third Stream" movement, an attempt to infuse all musical genres into one. He earned a bachelor's degree from Bard College." More
ubu.com: "Three unreleased legendary Hörspiels from the late 60s and early 70s, originally broadcast on German radio: Apollo America (1969), a sound collage of the events of Apollo 11, mostly recorded off of New York radio; and Voice of America (1970), a snapshot of American media at the beginning of the 1970s. Also included is an early work for mulitple voices, Jaja (1965)." Download here and here
Rob Young | THE WIRE: "Black To Comm is Hamburg's Marc Richter. He also runs Dekorder, which has put out quality editions of records by the likes of Hafler Trio and Tu m'. His pulverous, gravelly electronic laminates are liberally dosed with digitally altered field recordings, incorporated in a way that adds to the musicality of the whole. The title track is chalky and crackly as space dust, recalling Fennesz or Tim Hecker's crumbly, floury vapournoise. "Levitation" is like the intro to a Gas track, a sampled unidentifiable musical source flayed to reveal the heart; "March Of The Vivian Girls" a militaristic step over a contorted Weimar movie sample. You can clearly hear him mixing, as though watching a painter crushing pigments from silica and lapis blocks. As with so much currrent laptop sound, the lines between organic and digital are invisible, a reminder that no one thought of music as 'organic' anyway until the computer arrived on the scene."
Bird Show - Green Inferno
brainwashed.com" While working on Green Inferno, Vida had been listening to field recordings from around the world and Morocco, Zimbabwe, Japan and Pakistan in particular. He found himself as interested in the surroundings the recordings were made in as he was in the music itself. The home recording sessions were made in the attempt to retain a casual yet focused feel. Rough edges and external noises from the recordings were left in. Ben Vida recorded using vocals, violin, cornet, accordion, acoustic guitar, organ, qrareb (Moroccan castanets), assorted shakers, tambourine, mbira, field recordings from Tokyo by Atsuhiro Koizymi and from Puerto Rico by Fred Lonberg- Holm. Green Inferno was recorded and edited by Ben Vida at home on a digital 16 track and mixed with Jeremy Lemos at his apartment."
Bird Show - Lightning Ghost
brainwashed.com: "Lightning Ghost is the second Bird Show album, following the debut release Green Inferno. It centers around Ben Vida's home-fi sound experiments. Tracks are carved out of opiate'd chanting, disjunctive drum circles, synth meditation and prepared piano trance song. Vida's sonic explorations are embedded into tighter song structures, with a greater role given to vocals in the mix."
Privatkopie
dradio.de: Musik- und Filmindustrie machen mobil gegen Raubkopierer. Es kursieren immer wieder Meldungen über Razzien und horrende Schadenersatzforderungen. Für Privatpersonen sind manche Regelungen nicht ganz klar. Was ist überhaupt noch erlaubt, was ist wirklich verboten, und was sollte man auf jeden Fall vermeiden?" Weiter
allmusic.com: "German singer/songwriter Sibylle Baier's one contribution to the early-'70s underground folk scene was recorded in her home on an old reel-to-reel machine. Her earnest and stoic vocals, as well as her reflective compositions, were comparable to contemporaries such as Nico, Vashti Bunyan, and Anne Briggs, but the accomplished actress, painter, dancer, and seamstress chose to focus on her growing family rather than pursue a career in music. In 2004, her son lent a copy of his mother's home recordings to Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, who in turn saw that it found its way to Athens, GA, record label Orange Twin. Colour Green was made available to the world the following year."
dradio.de: "Sex vor der Kamera: Das ist vor allem harte Arbeit. Mit seinen Dokumentarfilmen aus dem schwulen Alltag zwischen der amerikanischen Pornoindustrie und der schwäbischen Alb hat sich Jochen Hick einen Namen gemacht. Er lässt die Sexarbeiter mit ihren Träumen und Sorgen zu Wort kommen, ohne aus ihnen voyeuristische Objekte zum machen." Der Filmemacher Jochen Hick
typerecords.com: "Based in Stockholm, Sweden; Sickoakes are a six piece instrumental rock band and Seawards is their long awaited debut release. Since the release of an early recording of ‘Wedding Rings & Bullets in the Same Golden Shrine’ on the Pleasedosomething net-label some years ago there has been a bubbling interest in their next move, so it is an absolute pleasure for us to present their full album, and what an album it is. Taking the finest fragments of the ailing post-rock genre, and infusing this with vibrant orchestral flourishes, Seawards is a slow burning triumph." <a href=typerecords.com">More
"What about download culture—does it bother you if people illegally download your records?
No, not particularly, I don’t mind people downloading my music, there’s a side to it that frustrates me but I think maybe because I’m becoming an old fuddy-duddy the side of it that frustrates me is that I really love the art of the album, I like putting together a body of work kind of forty-five minutes or so and releasing it with the idea that people are going to play it from beginning to end, and as music is downloaded people select tracks and everything is kind of chopped up. ...
People moan about losing sales but I’ve found the more people download my record, the more records I sell. I also know that once I start touring I’ll turn up in towns where I’ve sold fifty records but seven hundred kids want to come out and see the show, so it builds a genuine fan base—that’s the important thing. " Read the whole interview
jemenfish.be: "Laptop indietronica. At least, that's what he says. Wixel, AKA Wim Maesschalck likes a wide variety of music (indie, postrock, pop, ...), and is active in a number of other musical projects as well (A December Lake,
Ok we surrender, Triii, ...).
Wim is working on bringing his music to an audience with a live band, but currently only plays live as yet another one-man project, combining laptop and guitar." More
kcrw.org: "writer-director Tim Burton (Beetle Juice, Batman, Big Fish), discussing his two films from last year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Corpse Bride." listen here
NPR: "Last year no fewer than eight bands from Monterrey, Mexico, were invited to play at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Some have called Monterrey the Seattle of Latin Alternative music, in reference to Seattle's role in the early 1990s as the incubator of grunge rock." Listen here
Geschichts-Movies sind Quotenrenner
dradio.de: "Historiker reiben sich seit geraumer Zeit verwundert die Augen. So viel nachgefilmte Geschichte flimmerte noch nie über deutsche Fernsehschirme. Und mehr noch: Diese fiktiven Dramen vor historischem Hintergrund erzielen im Unterschied zu profunden Dokumentationen traumhafte Einschaltquoten. So zog der ZDF-Zweiteiler "Dresden" über 24 Millionen Zuschauer, das entspricht einer Quote von 32 Prozent, vor die Mattscheibe. Zuvor waren über 22 Millionen Bundesbürger im trockenen Wohnzimmer mit dabei, als der Privatsender RTL über Hamburg noch einmal "Die Sturmflut" hereinbrechen ließ. Und auch das Histo-Drama "Die Luftbrücke" bewog fast 20 Millionen Zuschauer, den Fernseher einzuschalten." Weiter
Sachbuch: "Hitler war's"
dradio.de: "Der Historiker Hannes Heer stellt bei den Deutschen eine Geschichtsumdeutung fest: Filme wie "Der Untergang" oder die Hitler-Filme des Guido Knopp, aber auch die Schriften von Joachim Fest hätten nur zum Ziel, so seine These, die Schuld der Deutschen an Weltkrieg und Holocaust auf Hitler und seine Chargen zu reduzieren. Jegliche Mitverantwortung kann so abgestritten werden." Weiter
Anmerkungen über das Herumhitlern
Wiglaf Droste: "Rational ist das nicht zu begreifen. Alles, was man über Adolf Hitler wissen muss, hat Sebastian Haffner in seinen "Anmerkungen über Hitler" geschrieben. Das kluge, klare Buch ist gut und verständlich geschrieben, es ist lieferbar, es ist schmal genug, um niemanden abzuschrecken - jeder Deutsche könnte es gelesen haben, und gut wäre es mit dem Thema." Weiter
mdr.de: "...stellt der Sender ein Buch von Gottfried Blumenstein, der u.a. auch als Autor für MDR KULTUR arbeitet, ins Netz: "Mister Tambourine Man - Leben und Musik von Bob Dylan", dessen Besonderheit darin besteht, dass es auch auf die Dylan-Rezeption in der DDR eingeht." Zum Download
mdr.de: "Orhan Pamuk - über keinen anderen türkischen Schriftsteller wird derzeit mehr gesprochen. In seiner Heimat angefeindet, wurde er auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse gefeiert. Dort erhielt Pamuk den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2005." Weiter
dradio.de: "Der Psychothriller "Stay" ist optisch aufregend neu. Das liegt daran, dass Regisseur Marc Forster sich von der Fotokunst der Deutschen Stefanie Schneider nicht nur hat inspirieren lassen: Stefanie Schneiders surreale Bilder spielen neben Schauspielern wie Naomi Watts und Ewan McGregor eine Hauptrolle in "Stay". <a href=www.dradio.de">Mehr
Foto-Künstlerin Stefanie Schneider
