There are a lot of articles from older issues of the WIRE available via the official homepage of the wire. Here are the direct links to all the essays.
The WIRE: "Via their releases on Sheffield's Warp label, the Autechre duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown are searching out new dimensions in electronic sound. Meanwhile, their Disengage radio show has become a community news bulletin for fellow digital denizens." Read the whole interview from The WIRE May 1997
The WIRE: Of all the groups lumped together under the Krautrock banner, Amon Duul II was the most psychedelic, the most cosmic, the most out of control. Edwin Pouncey went to Munich to meet the group's surviving members: there he heard a tale of 60s hippy communes, internecine warfare, drug-fuelled counterculture nights, and strange encounters with Can, Jimi Hendrix and the Baader-Meinhof group. Read the whole WIRE interview
The WIRE: "Like Boards of Canada, the melodies have an abstract, dislocated sadness that slowly seduce you with their meandering grace. Luxurious and tranquil synth pads are packed with emotional detail, even when they do nothing more than sketch out brief circular contours. What's lost in dynamics is made up for in textures drenched in nostalgic overtones.
Prefuse 73 is an obvious reference point for the cut up vocals on Load Line, but this is miles away from the start-stop tendencies of Scott Herren's work. Vocals here are not brutally rewired, just teased and caressed."
google: "Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online.
You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local."
Buchkritik zu Lea Ackermanns "Verkauft, versklavt, zum Sex gezwungen" von Deutschlandradio Kultur.
dradio.de: "Menschenhandel ist ein lohnendes Geschäft: Rund sechs Milliarden Euro Umsatz kommen im deutschen Prostitutionsmilieu zusammen. Viele der Frauen stammen aus Osteuropa und werden mit Gewalt und Drohungen zum "Anschaffen" gezwungen. Gegen diese Form des Sklavenhandels kämpft Lea Ackermann mit ihrer Organisation "Solwodi" an." Lesen/Hören oder Bei Amazon.de bestellen
swr2: "Neue Musik in der Wüste, experimentelle Töne in einem Land, wo scheinbar die Zeit stehen geblieben ist: Jedes Jahr kommen Musiker aus ganz Europa und den USA zum Roaring Hooves Festival in die Mongolei. Zusammen mit ihren mongolischen Kollegen touren sie durch einsame Täler, spielen in Tempelgärten und in den Dünen der Wüste Gobi. Ihr Publikum: Nomaden mit Pferden und Kamelen, buddhistische Mönche und Raubvögel, die über der unendlichen Steppe kreisen."
Donnerstag, 17. November 2005 um 14.05 Uhr auf SWR2
npr.org: "A new wave of Internet sites, like Wikipedia, invite their users to interact and contribute facts and opinion and edit each other. It's a more democratic way to present information. But is it more accurate?" (Talk of the Nation, November 2, 2005)" Listen here
Keith Moline in THE WIRE: On their latest album, the prolific Italian duo of Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli cut and layer shimmering loops of their own 'secret orchestra', the music's textural sensuality and panoramic expansiveness setting it apart from the sterility of most post-Oval glitch output. Sounding entranced by the ghosts, shadows and refractions throw up by their laptops, Tu m' fashion a variety of shifting soundscapes over the album's 64 minutes, from the Steve Reichian "Glamour" to the flaking, crumbling pianos of "Bye". Despite the extremity of the duo's processes, the lush sonorities of the 'orchestra' shine through like rays of sunlight reflected in mirror shards.
Chris Sharp in THE WIRE October 2005: Operating from a tiny village in Italy, Emiliano Romanelli and Rossano Polidoro have, over the course of several releases, developed a truly distinctive sound, and "Just One Night" is possibly their most coherent release so far. It's not just that Tu M' (named after a painting by Marcel Duchamp) use sound sources out of the ordinary - plenty of others incorporate acoustic guitar, saxophone, toy keyboards and flute into their music - it's the way that they edit these sources together in a fashion which combines the precisely surgical and the winningly quixotic. It's all about cunningly presented detail: the evanescent melodica flitting from channel to channel in "Strange Sleep"; the rattling rimshots lurking in the depths as "Blue Blur" sways through cubist jazz bar scapes; the tiny, throaty female gasp that punctuates the off-kilter whirl of "An Afternoon In The Country". "The First Rays Of The Sun" is a pristine example of the painterly mastery of Tu M' - an elliptical, wistful, immmaculate collection of sonic fragments held in beautiful, unresolved suspension.
autopilotmusic.com: "As a solo-artist Guido Möbius creates a very unique and intimate sound. A whole lot of instruments, most of them acoustic, define the soundcollage. Brittle soundtissues and sweet tones blend in complex arrangements." More
poynter.org: "With more than 10 million blogs online and their importance growing every day, the race is on to create the best blog search engine. In the past month, both Google and Yahoo! have unveiled long-awaited blog searches. Here's a look at some of the best tools for searching blogs." Link
archive.org: "Considered one of the most important films in the history of silent pictures, as well as possibly Eisenstein's greatest work, Battleship Potemkin brought Eisenstein's theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase; his emphasis on montage, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the mass instead of the individual as the protagonist.
The film tells the story of the mutiny on the Russian ship Prince Potemkin during the 1905 uprising." Download here
bbc.co.uk: "As we explore the realms of the experimental we talk to Brian Eno and Bono, Nick Luscombe of the ICA and XFM, Magz Hall from Resonance FM and Tony Herrington from The Wire. [...]
Part of the premise of tonight's show is to demonstrate that the 'challenging' music of today informs the popular music of tomorrow. So for this show we'll be taking you through tracks of an experimental nature from down the ages. Expect to hear tracks from Yoko Ono, Marc Riley and the Creepers as well as new stuff from Snowblood, Ulver, The Telescopes, Asja Auf Capri, Fantomas, the list goes on and on. In fact the show is packed with nealy 40 records so be sure to check out the tracklistings. " Listen here
Chicago Flame: "Chicago Producer John Hughes III and Japanese singer/producer Shin Tasaki collaborated together in "All My Friends Have to go" to produce an album that is both engaging and extremely entertaining. Their music is influenced by a plethora of different genres of music. IDM, break beats, R&B, down tempo: everything finds a place in their music. As such, the album is full of surprises." More
Softand is Christof Steinmann, multimedia artist and student of audio visual arts. His music can be filed under the wide field of electronica. The record label Spezialmaterial is kind enough, to offer some of his tracks as mp3 downloads.
wpr.org: "The public sees a politician one way. A political cartoonist sees something else entirely. What makes a good political cartoon? We'll get some answers from Steve Brodner, one of the most savage illustrators at work in the United States." Listen to this broadcast
wpr.org: "Seven hundred million people get their music from the Internet. More than 10 million people own iPods. Does this mean that compact discs and record companies are going the way of the gramophone and eight-track tapes? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we'll look at this digital music revolution...as we explore the future of music." Listen to this broadcast
wpr.org: "Forget the Middle East. Robert Kaplan says the war in Iraq is just a blip on the radar screen. The next U.S. military challenge will be in the Pacific - against China. In this hour of the Peabody Award Winning program To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll look at a changing China - from its military and economy to its literature. And, the godfather of Chinese Rock and Roll - Cui Jian." Listen to this broadcast
cdemusic.org: "Natasha Barrett is a composer of electronic and instrumental music. She has composed electroacoustic music, and music for acoustical instruments and live electronics, sound installations, dance, theatre, and animations. She often works with recorded sounds of the world and abstractions of those sounds.
Natasha Barrett's electroacoustic music has been performed throughout the world. She has received awards from Noroit Foundation, Concours Scrime, International Electroacoustic Creation Competition of Ciberart, Ars Electronica, Bourges, Fondazione Luigi Russolo ... and commisssions from Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, Oslo Sinfonietta, NICEM (Norwegain section of the ICEM), International Computer Music Association"
