mondoglobo.net: "Daniel H. Wilson, author of the hilarious “How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion,” joins us on this episode of NeoFiles. Wilson is a Ph.D. graduate of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University."
echoes-online.de: "Balance, das könnte auch das generelle Stichwort für dieses Interview (Teil 1 hier sein. Sie ist einerseits durch die Lizenz des Senders festgeschrieben, andererseits zieht sich das Leitbild eines Ausbalancierten Senderprogrammes auch durch die tägliche Arbeit des Senders." Weiter lesen
wnyc.org: Luke DuBois is a musician and computer programmer who has spent the last couple of years developing a technique he calls time-lapse phonography. Much like the way financial analysts sample the stock market to determine prices, time-lapse phonography samples sound to create averages. DuBois used the technique to condense Billboard's pop music charts into a single piece of music: 42 years of #1 hits compressed into 37 minutes. He calls the piece, "Billboard." Produced by Trent Wolbe." Listen here
Hinter der URL onlinetvrecorder.com verbirgt sich ein Service, der viele meiner Wünsche wahr werden lässt. Zwar keine der existentiellen Wünsche, aber immerhin alle die sich um das Thema TV drehen. Ich selbst besitze keinen Fernseher mehr, und dass schon seit 10 Jahren. Nur an wenigen Tagen vermisse ich den Flimmerkasten. Zudem kommt dann auch nur Mist in der Glotze, die tausendste noch dümmere Soap, Klingeltonwerbung, Werbesendungen mit Spielfilmunterbrechung und, und, und... Den vollständigen Artikel kann man bei phlow.net lesen
indiepedia.de:"Ein deutschsprachiges Wiki zum Thema Indie- und Popkultur."
Mein Weblog wurde bereits aufgenommen. Das Fazit der Indiepedia: "Swen's Blog ist eigentlich immer nützlich, informativ und informiert."
Ich bedanke mich hiermit für den Eintrag. Habe ihn aber mittlerweile dahingehend ergänzt, dass ich auch bei phlow.net gelegentlich etwas veröffentliche.
wdr.de: Sie wanderten und musizierten - und zogen gegen die Nazis zu Felde: Die Edelweißpiraten verteilten Flugblätter, prügelten sich mit der Hitler Jugend, versorgten Verfolgte des Nazi-Regimes. Vor 60 Jahren wurden sechs von ihnen in Köln-Ehrenfeld öffentlich hingerichtet. Die Kölnerin Gertrud Koch erinnert sich an ihre Freunde.
"Wir wollten frei sein", betont Gertrud Koch immer wieder. Frei zu wandern, Lieder zu singen, Kleidung und Aussehen selbst zu bestimmen - alles Wünsche, die für heutige Jugendliche selbstverständlich sind. Unter dem nationalsozialistischen Regime war diese Freiheit jedoch undenkbar. Jugendliche sollten der Hitler Jugend (HJ) beitreten, andere Organisationen waren verboten. "Wir hatten anfangs keine großen Pläne gegen Hitler", erzählt die heute 80-jährige Kölnerin, die schon von ihren Eltern, beide Kommunisten, zu Treffen der "Bündischen Jugend" mitgenommen worden war. Nachdem diese 1936 verboten wurde, schloss sie sich mit anderen Freunden den "Naturfreunden" an. Auf den Wanderungen kristallisierten sich allmählich Grüppchen heraus, die den Nazis kritisch gegenüber standen. Als die Naturfreunde ebenfalls verboten wurden, beschlossen die Jugendlichen: "Wir lassen uns nicht verbieten, wir machen weiter!" Ein neuer Name musste her, Gertrud Koch schlug das naturgeschützte Edelweiß als Symbol vor. "Gruppe Edelweiß", so sei der originale Name gewesen, darauf legt die Widerstandskämpferin großen Wert. Erst die Gestapo habe sie zu "Edelweißpiraten" gemacht, "um uns zu kriminalisieren". Mehr
Julian hat während eines London Aufenthalts einige interessante Interviews geführt, die er nach und nach veröffentlichen will. Das erste, geführt mit den den Machern von Resonance-FM, einem Londoner Radio Sender, auf dem auch das WIRE eine eigene Sendung hat, ist bereits online. Zum Interview
thewire: From Hamburg, Germany, Black To Comm's debut album is described by its creator Marc Richter thus: "Many moons ago mankind discovered a female southeast Asian insect whose scarlet resinous secretion could be magically transformed into music with the aid of manmade machines. This is a tribute to said insect (hence the title), made exclusively from scratchy shellac loops."
wnyc.org: "Mali is a country of contrasts, and music there is no exception. We’ll hear the nomadic Tinariwen of North Mali; the bluesy voice of Oumou Sangare, from the Wassoulou tradition of the south; and the voice of the great Salif Keita, heir to a line of Malian kings and one of the great singers in the Manding tradition. Also, Morey Kante, Habib Koite, and legendary blues guitarist Ali Farka Toure." Listen here)]
allmusic.com: "Scottish percussionist, improviser, and musician of eclectic tastes Ken Hyder began his career of blending jazz with a variety of world and folk musics in the late '60s when he formed his first band, the jazz and Celtic group Talisker. Among Hyder's projects are his long-standing collaboration (over two decades) with avant-garde pianist Maggie Nicols, called Hoots and Roots, and an equally long musical relationship with revered improviser Tim Hodgkinson." More
"In days of old, some bard would have sung the ballad of Vashti Bunyan. It is a tale full of romance, adventure, tragedy, redemption and unlikely twists. It has a happy ending, too, in the form of an album, Lookaftering, released this month on Fat Cat. Lookaftering is not Bunyan's first album - that would be 1970's Just Another Diamond Day - but it is her first in 35 years, and it represents a new lease of life for one of our most extraordinary artists." Read more
ON THE COVER: Lightning Bolt: Alan Licht meets the Rhode Island duo who are reconfiguring US Hardcore with their breakneck drum and bass thrash
FEATURES: Ken Hyder, Vashti Bunyan, Invisible Jukebox: Ray Russell, Primer: Jamaican Deejays, Tujiko Noriko, Susanne Brokesch, Kang Tae Hwan
REVIEWS:
SOUNDCHECK: A Handful Of Dust, Akercocke, Tetuzi Akiyama & Jason Kahn, Angel Corpus Christi, The Luke Barlow Band, Black Sun Productions, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Books On Tape, Hélène Breschand & Jean-François Pauvros, Bertrand Burgalat, Burning Star Core, John Cage, Vinicius Cantuária, Bill Carrothers, The Caution Curves, Chiesa/Guionnet/Marchetti/Noetinger, John Coltrane, Greg Davis & Sebastien Roux, Guy De Bièvre, Deerhoof, Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra, Frank Denyer, Dirty Three, Tod Dockstader, Dooley-O, Arthur Doyle, Ephel Duath, Es, Excepter, 4G, Fovea Hex, Free Base, Growing, Hanna Hartman, Richie Hawtin, Susan Howe & David Grubbs, The Howling Hex, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Joseph Klein/William Kleinsasser, Hans Koller, Miya Masaoka/Joan Jeanreneaud, Sean Meehan, Mr Dorgon, MX-80, NMS, Luigi Nono, 1-Speed Bike, Francis Plagne, Schlippenbach/Dunmall/Rogers/Bianco, Yoko Solo, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Birgit Ulher/Lou Mallozzi/Michael Zerang, Birgit Ulher & Gino Robair, Various: The Invisible Pyramid: Elegy Box, John Wall, Alex Ward, Ward/Barlow/Fell/Noble, Windy & Carl and more...
PRINT RUN: Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous, by Graham Bennett; Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia, by Richard Cook; Body And Soul: Jazz And Blues In American Film, 1927-63, by Peter Stanfield; The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz, by Gerald Majer
CROSS PLATFORM: Rodney Graham: Pablo Lafuente investigates rock's role in the Canadian artist's work. Reviews: Woyzeck in London, Nuit Blanche in Paris and Cameron Jamie in Venice; Crossing The Bridge and Dave Markey on film; Einstürzende Neubauten and So Wrong They're Right on DVD; The Music Library in print. Plus, The Inner Sleeve: Phill Niblock on Duke Ellington's Black, Brown And Beige; and Go To: Our monthly Net trawl
ON LOCATION: Instal 05, Glasgow, UK; Xenakis, London, UK; Kronos Quartet, London, UK; Karlheinz Stockhausen, London, UK; Terry Riley, Los Angeles, USA; Erstquake, New York, USA
PLUS: Epiphanies: Andy Hamilton on saxophonist Lee Konitz; Global Ear: Sydney; Savage Pencil's Trip Or Squeek and more Link
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VIEW an exclusive video clip from Rune Grammofon's latest signings Moha recording the song "(C5)" which is included on this month's Wire Tapper 14 CD. Link
HEAR tracks featuring percussionist Ken Hyder (interviewed in the new December issue by Will Montgomery), including an unreleased track from K-Space's forthcoming CD on Ad Hoc Records. Link
VIEW live footage of Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston filmed at the Her Noise exhibition launch event on 9 November 2005 at the South London Gallery. The exhibition, curated by The Wire's Anne Hilde Neset and Lina Dzuverovic and produced by Electra in association with Forma, continues until 18 December 2005. Link
VIEW a selection of photos taken at the Her Noise launch Link
HEAR an exclusive mix by Tujiko Noriko and Lawrence English produced specially for The Wire. Link
VIEW a selection of 'segments' taken from work by painter Paula Brooks, who collaborated with Susanne Brokesch on her Disko B album Emerald Stars. Link
HEAR a track taken from Susanne Brokesch's Emerald Stars. Link
LISTEN to a streamed selection of tracks included in Brian Marley's Primer on Jamaica's greatest talkover deejays. Link
telegraph.co.uk: "There are two things you need to know about , inventor of the iPod music player and the iMac computer. First, he is the most important British industrial designer of our time. He changed the way millions listen to music and helped liberate computers from dull beige boxes." More
allmusic.com: "A collective of psychedelic-minded Japanese musicians headed by guitarist Masaki Batoh, Ghost records commune-minded free-range psychedelia with equal debts to the Can/Amon Düül axis of Krautrock, as well as West Coast psych units like Blue Cheer and Jefferson Airplane. Batoh grew up in Kyoto, where he attended a private school well-geared to spark his interest in rock music, from Dylan and Pink Floyd to the Velvet Underground. Later, he formed Ghost with a large and varying lineup, centered around contributors such as Michio Kurihara, Kazuo Ogino, and Taishi Takizawa. According to reports, the group lived a nomadic existence, drifting from ruins of ancient temples to disused subway stations around the Tokyo area." More info at allmusic.com
radio abc: "Earclips are short creative sound works of about three minutes duration, the length of a pop song. These short sonic adventures and narratives are meant to be played over and over just like a music track. [...]
Some of the Earclips are narratives of sound and music, others also use human voice to tell the stories of time passing. The theme "Passing Through" was intentionally open to allow responses that might touch on landscape, characters, seasonal or unusual events such as drought or flood, ideas, or sounds. It could be our heritage, our spirit - our human presence in an ancient world. Some people believe we are all just passing through." Listen here
rte radio1: "Author and journalist Jon Ronson talks about his book The Men Who Stare at Goats, part of which details the use of musical torture in Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq. Ronson explains how the US army played I Love You (the theme from the children's TV show Barney) on a loop to disorient prisoners at a detention point in al-Qa'im, Iraq; He also remembers his interview with Sesame Street composer Chris Cerf, who in a moment of black humour wondered if he was due any royalties from the US government for the use of his music in similar situations." Listen here Real Audio link.
npr.org: "Thanks to digital technology, it's become progressively easier to take perfect pictures. But not everyone strives for perfection -- a growing community of photographers is becoming attached to the simplicity and imperfections of what they call "toy cameras." Listen here
