npr.org: Sgt. William Thompson IV, a reservist who was deployed in Iraq, is a third-generation jazz musician from New Orleans.
But during his time in combat, he turned to a different musical form: Using his laptop, he records the sounds of war and incorporates them into compositions that he posts online. Listen here
wsj.com: Times have been hard at Scotti's Record Shops in northern New Jersey. For a while customers weren't coming in like they used to -- too busy, most likely, downloading music onto their MP3 players. The teenagers who did show up would often whisper to each other, "Don't buy that. I can burn it for you."
But co-owners and brothers Jeff and Gary Scotti didn't want to simply ignore the changes digital music was bringing to their business. "We don't want to "butt heads with iPod owners," as Jeff Scotti puts it. "We have to embrace them."
So, earlier this year, the four-store chain announced its new "Buy It, Burn It, Return It" policy. Customers can buy a used or new CD, take it home, listen and, if they want, burn a copy to a computer. Within 10 days, they can return the CD for 70% store credit. More
Each year there is a battle between to districts of Berlin: Friedrichshain vs Kreuzberg. Weapons are Vegetables, Eggs, Spaghetti etc. but no hard objects. The goal is to push the enemy down the bridge (Oberbaumbrücke).
fm4.orf.at: "Auch FM4 gibt es jetzt als praktischen Podcast, für den MP3-Player für unterwegs. Doch was kann man sich denn überhaupt mitnehmen? Dreierlei: den FM4 Comedy Podcast, den Off Air Podcast und den FM4 Soundpark Podcast." Mehr
Click Opera: Chris Watson, who's featured in an Invisible Jukebox in the September issue of The Wire, was one of the three original members of Cabaret Voltaire. He left in 1981 to work on sound for television and radio, specialising in field recordings of birds, mammals and insects.
allmusic.com: Battersea-based ambient composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, takes his curious pseudonym from his compositional tool of choice; the cellphone scanner. Although only recording and releasing music since the early '90s, Rimbaud has already earned a reputation as a boundary pushing experimentalist, wedding scanned vocal samples with sparse electronics and other textural elements that underscore the degree of strain and isolation often associated with modern telecommunications technology.
Spiegel.de: "Selten war das Angebot an Film-DVD-Beipackern in Zeitschriften bunter als in diesem September. Von Comicverfilmungen über Komödien und Krimis bis hin zu Antikriegsfilmen, Action-Krachern und kleinen Perlen cineastischer Kunst reicht die Palette. Wir zeigen, wo man derzeit Schnäppchen machen kann." Weiter
kcrw.com: Horror, comedy and Rob Zombie -– a winning triple-play. The Devil's Rejects is a sequel of Zombie's controversial House of 1000 Corpses. Listen (Real Audio)
"The Ramones almost single-handedly created 1970's punk rock with their fast-paced, two-minute songs inspired by horror movies and glue sniffing. But the Ramones were hardly a happy family - at least according to the documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, a critical favorite of 2004, which is now available on DVD. Today on Soundcheck, drummer Tommy Ramone talks about the turbulent life behind the scenes." Listen here
<b<wnyc.org: "Laurie Anderson, known for her eerie, soul-searching performance art, has another project she’s taking on tour. This newest piece, The End of the Moon, reflects Anderson's experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence and indulges in some philosophy too. "
wnyc.org: "What do you get when you take music by Icelandic pop star Bjork and arrange it for an 18-piece jazz band? Find out as we visit with Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra, a group that performs big band interpretations of the entire Bjork catalog. Similar in spirit, if not necessarily in inspiration is the Ed Palermo Big Band." Listen here
"Diamanda Galas ignores the traditional ways in which women are expected to sing and instead offers a cross between Dracula and Goth-rock as she takes on subjects including power, abandonment, grief and the AIDS epidemic. She returns to New York for two performances of "Defixiones, Orders from the Dead" an operatic mass which speaks of the Armenian, Assyrian, Anatolian and Pontic Greek genocides. She joins us to talk about the New York premiere. Also on the show: Rivers and Tides director Thomas Riedelsheimer drops by to discuss his new documentary on Grammy award-winning, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie entitled Touch the Sound." Listen/Download here
somewhere.org: "Schrei 27 (1994) Consists of several short performances over the space of twenty-seven minutes alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. The performances are chapters of a confession which might have been induced through a chemical or mechanical manipulation of the brain. There is a high density of speech-sound over time which is often machine-like in its velocity. The work employs the atypical speech and vocal signal processing that Galas has been researching since 1979. A co commission of the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and NEW AMERICAN RADIO."
As you might have allready noticed, there has been a small change to the appearence of my weblog. The text of the "comment" and "link" links have been repaced by beautiful icons of Mark James
taz.de: "Die Kultur der Netlabels etabliert sich als Parallelwelt zum kommerziellen Musikmarkt. Meist kostenlos kann man sich hier Stücke herunterladen, die einem eigenen Urheberrecht unterliegen. Oft sind es Liebhaberprojekte, manchen Netlabels liegt aber auch ein neues Geschäftsmodell zu Grunde: Die Musikkonserve wird hier zum Promotionwerkzeug" Mehr
"Willkommen beim 3. koreanischen Filmfest CoreAction, das vom 16. - 24. September 2005 im Kino des Deutschen Filmmuseums, Frankfurt am Main, stattfindet! Alle Filme laufen im koreanischen Original als Filmkopien (Celluloid) mit englischen oder deutschen Untertiteln, wie angegeben. Eintritt ab 18 Jahren."
www.coreaction.de
swr.de Welche Gefühle erzeugt das Geräusch von Kartoffelchips, wenn sie zwischen den Zähnen zerkrachen? Raubt der Staubsauger den letzten Nerv oder vermittelt sein Geräusch kraftvolle, gründliche und zugleich schonende Reinigung? Immer mehr Hersteller von Haushaltsgeräten, Kraftfahrzeugen und Nahrungsmitteln setzen professionelle Akustik-Designer ein."
