con-v.org: "Veteran and well-known Washington DC based experimental artist Violet (Jeff Surak) presents on con-v this long track, his latest work; "okraina" is a nocturnal piece, a trip to the end of night.
" Okraina was constructed from field recordings made in December 2003 while on tour in Russia and Ukraine. Gas heated kitchen pipes, men sleeping in a train compartment, passing trains, light bulbs, soviet refrigerators, train toilets are the sources. The sounds where minimally mixed and processed, and the stranger sounds are more a result of strategic microphone placement and the lofi microcassette recorder than software". [ Jeff Surak ]"
Director's Label Series Boxed Set - The Works of Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry
smellslikemusic.com: "In October of 2003, Palm Pictures, in collaboration with Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, announced an innovative new DVD brand, The Director’s Label. This DVD series showcases each director’s unique projects, which includes a compilation of music videos, shorts, commercials, documentaries, in addition to other exclusive features by the directors such as never before seen rare footage and unreleased audio and video commentary. The Director’s Label debuted with The Work of Director Spike Jonze, The Work of Director Chris Cunningham and The Work of Director Michel Gondry. Now available for the first time together, this series will be offered in a special Collector’s Edition Box Set. The set includes the 3 Director’s Label programs (each accompanied by their individual 52-page books), a bonus DVD featuring new work from Spike and Michel and a collectible, double-sided poster featuring an original “exquisite corpse” illustration by all three directors on one side and an exclusive design by Chris Cunningham on the other. "
This special Collector’s Edition Box Set includes the 3 Director’s Label DVDs (The Work of Director Spike Jonze, The Work of Director Chris Cunningham and The Work of Director Michel Gondry - each accompanied by their individual 52-page books), a bonus DVD featuring new work from Spike and Michel and a collectible, double-sided poster featuring an original "exquisite corpse" illustration by all three directors on one side and an exclusive design by Chris Cunningham on the other.
<b<filmportal.de: "As soon as German producers have made a film comedy which is halfway successful, the press and film industry always start to proclaim the supposed return of an allegedly long neglected genre. Declarations announcing the renaissance of our film comedy are as numerous as commonly heard statements, which assert that Germans have no sense of humor. The fact is, of course, that there have always been German films aiming to make their audiences laugh. The individual artistic, dramaturgical, directorial and acting qualities remain are not taken into account by this assertion, neither are questions concerning the quality of comedy. Right at the beginning of the 21st century, film comedy "made in Germany" is booming, and it's noteworthy that nearly all exponents of this cheerful trade are recruited from television. " Read more
MoMa.org: "The Russian Futurists encompassed a number of avant-garde groups of artists and poets working in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the 1910s and early 1920s. Rejecting the conventions of the academy and bourgeois taste, painters experimented with new visual languages of abstraction, including Cubo-Futurism and Rayism, while also turning to vernacular and non-Western sources in Neo-primitivism. Poets explored the nonconnotative value of words, as seen in Aleksei Kruchenykh’s experiments with transrational language that lead to the first example of zaum poetry in 1913."
bobbybaby.net: "Bobby Baby is Ella. Ella is 22 years old. She lives in Malmö, Sweden. Ella started out playing the guitar 10 years ago. Today she plays a lot of instruments. She used to play acoustic guitar and sing with the band Alien she. Ella has recorded many songs. They are often simple with lots of unexpected noise. But Ella doesn't mind. Now she tries more advanced recordning technology though. Ella has used a lot of different aliases through out the years, for example Kangasmukko and Ella Glockenspiel. Now Ella is Bobby Baby and this site is for sharing her music with you. Enjoy."
zombieastronaut.com: "We've all heard Orson Welles version of The War Of The Worlds, and a remarkable version it is, but everybody already has that one, so it would seem a futile gesture to post it. However, there have been multiple versions of War Of The Worlds since. This month, we're showcasing a version broadcast on the always entertaining BBC Radio.
We have all six episodes of BBC's War Of The Worlds here for your enjoyment, sans plot summary (after all, who isn't familiar with the greatest invasion story ever written?)." Download here
kunstradio.at: "In der Ostersonntagsausgabe des Kunstradios setzt sich der Musiker und Ideenforscher dieb13 in seiner neuen Radioarbeit mit dem Thema der Rückkoppelung und seiner Geschichte auseinander.
Als 1913 die Grundlagen für die Empfänger- bzw Senderschaltung des modernen Radios in Form der "Rückkopplung zur Erzeugung von Schwingungen" geschaffen wurden, stritten sich gleich sieben Techniker und Erfinder aus aller Welt in jahrelangen Patentverfahren um diese "Erfindung". Unter diesen sieben waren unter anderem der Amerikaner Edwin Howard Armstrong, der Deutsche Alexander Meißner und der Österreicher Siegmund Strauss, der namentlich auf der Gedenktafel neben dem Eingang zum Wiener Funkhaus als "Erfinder der Rückkopplung" gewürdigt wird.
dieb13 schickt dieses sperrige Thema in seiner Text-, Sound- und Radiocollage durch die Rückkopplungsschleifen der Kreativität."
<a href"www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk: "As far as I'm aware, no major works by Clemens Gadenstätter have been heard so far in Britain, but this hour-long ensemble piece, Comic Sense, a zany hybrid between a piano concerto and an instrumental suite, suggests British new music groups would do well to investigate his output.
In 1966, the Austrian-born Gadenstätter began his professional life as a flautist, and was briefly a member of Klangforum Wien before going off, in 1992, for post-graduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Lachenmann's approach appears to have left a deep impression on Gadenstätter's sound, but in a work like Comic Sense, completed last year, there is none of his teacher's deliberately alienating techniques."
strange-attractors.com: Beaming warmly from the underground enclaves of Los Angeles, CA like a lambent ray of soft sunlight, the music of Nick Castro is breathing fresh life and pristine wonderment into an old sound. Castro released a beguiling album called A Spy in the House of God in 2004 on his own imprint Records of Ghaud, and it caused quite a stir in the new acid folk circles. Imagine a melding of More-era Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett solo and a touch of Incredible String Band with modern fractured folk sound weavers like the Tower Recordings and maybe you are in the right sphere. For his follow up, Castro has assembled a cast of players calling themselves The Poison Tree, boasting amongst its ranks underground folk icons Josephine Foster and members of Espers. It is a heavenly match as evidenced on Further From Grace, a simply mystical sophomore effort illustrating with a feathery wallop that Castro is a major voice amongst the new insurgence of THC troubadours. Read more
waterlilly.ch: Water Lilly is one of the main figures representing the Swiss electro scene today. Behind the decks since 96 and producing from 99 she materializes a subtle mixture of analogue atmospheric sounds with a pumpy dancefloor feeling. This charming killer-behind the decks lady carries her records worldwide, alike her live performances have graced fine venues such as Luxx in New York City, WMF in Berlin, Batofar in Paris, Luxclub in Lisbon, or the Discotheque in Barcelona. Read more
bip-hop.com:Iris Garrelfs is best known for her emotive, improvised glitch-tech performances based around electronically manipulated and digitally warped voice sounds. The Wire has described her sound as "Garrelfs’s divine caressing tones floated over the audience… Garrelfs’s voice swelled up into vast cavernous echoes, sweeping the audience with it" Specified Encounters has been moulded from dissected, transmuted voice sounds, settling somewhere between Arvo Pärt and Christan Fennesz. Read More
intro.de: "Wenn Georgios Karkalis am Computer sitzt, bleibt der Bildschirm aus. Georgios ist blind, stockblind. Was er sehen will, muss er hören oder fühlen. Sprachausgabe und Braillezeile machen ihm Windows, Word, den Browser zugänglich. Bei seinem liebsten Hobby hilft ihm allerdings keine Spezialsoftware weiter. Sein liebstes Hobby sind Computerspiele. Er besitzt Xbox, Dreamcast, Gamecube. Und er zockt alles, was ihm in die Finger kommt: Action-, Sport- und Rennspiele. Besonders gerne aber Prügelspiele wie “Soul Calibur” oder “Tekken”. Und Georgios ist nicht allein. Computer sind längst nicht mehr nur der perfekte Schreibtisch für Blinde und Sehbehinderte. Mit diesen zogen auch die Spiele in ihre Wohnzimmer ein. Aber wie um alles in der Welt soll das funktionieren: Blinde und Computerspiele?" Mehr
allmusic.com:"The alternative pop-rock and lo-fi recordings of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti are full of intrigue--and full of contradictions. Pink, a male singer, composer, musician and producer who is based in Los Angeles, provides songs that are melodic, catchy and familiar--songs that, in their own unorthodox way, recall the most immediate, accessible, straight-forward FM pop-rock of the ‘70s and ‘80s. But Pink's work also comes across as bizarre, trippy, skewed and twisted--and a lot of that strangeness comes from his production style."Read more
Internettauschbörsen als Chancen für die Wissens- gesellschaft
dradio.de: Während sich die Medienindustrie bislang im Kampf gegen Peer-to-Peer-Tauschnetze aufreibt, wurde eine wichtige Eigenschaft der neuen Tauschnetze bisher kaum beachtet: Entstehen hier möglicherweise die Bibliotheken des 21. Jahrhunderts?
waterlilly.ch: Water Lilly is one of the main figures representing the Swiss electro scene today. Behind the decks since 96 and producing from 99 she materializes a subtle mixture of analogue atmospheric sounds with a pumpy dancefloor feeling. This charming killer-behind the decks lady carries her records worldwide, alike her live performances have graced fine venues such as Luxx in New York City, WMF in Berlin, Batofar in Paris, Luxclub in Lisbon, or the Discotheque in Barcelona. 
