kunstbande SLA is a group of artists well known from such projects as: gameboyzz orchestra project, DOXAPINE, mikrokilla, JURA and GRAN'S.
They are also organizers of STREFA Audiovisual Art Reviews.
Group has been active since 2000. As first Polish group they used GameBoy consoles to produce the sound in music arrangements. kunstbande SLA started from improvised concerts - psychodelic jam sessions. Currently they working regular on rehearsals and on new tracks.
Eclectic style of kunstbande SLA man can describe as
ELEKTRO-PSYCHO-ROCK. It's a result of different music experiences and many-years' work on their own sounds, that is comparing to Godspeed or Chicago Underground Orchestra.
The BitTorrent Effect
Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video -on-demand, just click here.
The Shadow Internet
They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
The Zen of Jeff Bezos
The cool head of Amazon.com talks about the rise of the obscure, taking on Netflix, and why he quit spending on TV advertising.
They're Not Worthy
Why extend the copyright on works that no longer have commercial value? By Lawrence Lessig
DACM is a collaboration between the musician Peter Rehberg (Pita), and
the singer Tujiko Noriko, whose songs bring softness and melody, and punctuate Stèrèotypie with moments of solace. Stèrèotypie is a choreographic and theatrical proposal which presents a world where setting and human bodies can belong to the same visual intention. This is a place where fiction permeates reality through the fantasy of perfection; where the friction between perfection and imperfection seems more attractive than ever.Read More
QUIO started MCing in 1997 as MC LOONEY TUNES
she performed with drumnbass and hiphop DJs in berlin
germany and throughout europe.
in 1998 she met DJ G-SERVE from AUDIOTAXI in WTF
together with DJ CHRISTINE LANG they organized parties named .ON BASS TRACKS and a radio show on berlins pirate radio station TWEN FM in 1999 quio met AGF when they both performed in a club various collaborations followed. in 2003 they started QUIO.
AGF aka ANTYE GREIE (Germany) and VLADISLAV DELAY (Finland), both known for their various solo releases and worldwide performances release their first full lenght collaborational album. A dialogue between a drummer and a vocalist, 2 musical activists combine their talents and express their views with music they aspire for, exploring in their unique way. Read more
'Claustrophobic and world open at the same time, building up his musical tent made out of female voice fragments, sick sinus sounds, piano etudes, some cafe house attitude, combined with field recordings - definitly french - pychedelic flute patterns and obligatory (for France) clarinets. And always again voices. In all varieties. Sometimes very far away, sometimes very close. Singing, murmuring, whispering, talking, singing. The music to a french ghost movie, with actors from all over the world.' - mike @ sunshine family
Did you like my mp3 bookmarklet? Well if so, you will love the "Google multimedia searching device". You can use it to search for audio files like mp3 or ogg, archive files like zip or rar and even torrent files. An video function will be added soon. Check it out here.
An Italian DJ has been fined a record €1.4 million for using hundreds of pirate music files in a well-known local nightclub near Rome. The DJ was discovered with more than 2,000 mp3 music files suspected to be illegal downloads and 500 pirated video clips. Read more
The TRASHLOG-project was started on 5 May 2002. The end of the project is not yet definitely established.
The project consists of a half an hour daily walk looking for a piece of trash lying in the street. I don't need to dig in waste baskets, there is enough trash to find in the street.
The trash may be of paper, plastic or metal, but it may never be bigger than 10 x 15 cm and it must be as flat as possible.
From the founded items I choose one item to be scanned and this item will be on view on internet. Fromtrashlog.org
Found via the Phonography Mailinglist: Berlin.Soundscape-FM is a collaborative soundwork in the city of Berlin, produced at the Transmediale Festival, 4-8 February 2005.
During these four days, sound artists, amateur sound hunters, phonographers and other interested participants collaborated on gathering sounds from different locations within the city of Berlin. The collected sounds ranged from the ever-present crosswalk signals, children's voices and U-Bahn wires to the acoustics of former CIA spy stations, empty theatres and the "Memory Void" of the Jewish Museum.
All of the sounds have been plotted out on a scalable map of Berlin which remains open to further contribution, making it a vital ongoing collaboration and online community.
German minimal electronic label Raster Noton was featured in THE WIRE #238. The whole article is availible as a PDF file here. Some Raster Noton downloads here.
Though he foresaw many ways in which Big Brother might watch us, even George Orwell never imagined that the authorities would keep a keen eye on your bin.
Residents of Croydon, south London, have been told that the microchips being inserted into their new wheely bins may well be adapted so that the council can judge whether they are producing too much rubbish.
If the technology suggests that they are, errant residents may be visited by officials bearing advice on how they might "manage their rubbish more effectively". Read the rest @ The Guardian Found at www.mikeslist.com
remember when there was the fuzz about goolge not showing the Abu Ghraib photos? Google just recently did an update of its image database and here they are
From Jahtari.org:
"We are a small record label based in Leipzig / Germany and we produce a kind ofmusic here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE (DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music (or DUB) in it's classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only.
Most of our music will be out on vinyl quite soon but since we're living in the 21st century full of multimedia gimmicks we will release a monthly series of so called 'NET-7inches' here on our site that will be available for free download. "
Combining the stylistic elements of Asian, Middle Eastern, Ethiopian, hip-hop, rock, experimental & electronic music Gang Gang Dance synthesizes a vital and wholly new type of music; rigidly structured yet fluid enough to allow for the members to improvise and take the music in a different direction at a moments notice. Unlike many of their contemporaries this group is more oriented in an uncompromisingly creative direction; a set of compositions is only in their repertoire for a handful of months during which time they are constantly changing and developing to a point of fruition. At which point a whole new set of material is written and begins getting developed, which allows the band to never rest. The resulting performances have created an organic ground swell of congregants eagerly waiting to see where the group will plant its new seeds. This release is but the tip of the iceberg; a vantage point from which to watch the next year unfold for this ground breaking quartet.Read more
Born in England in 1958, David Sylvian first hit the British music scene in the late 1970s with Japan, one of several bands that defined the so-called New Romantic cultural period. He later scored a UK Top 5 hit with ‘Ghosts’, before turning solo in 1982. The last twenty years has seen him collaborate with music’s great and good – Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra), Holger Czukay (Can), and Robert Fripp (King Crimson) – but, to many, his own work represents his best efforts, and repays the closest attention. In the words of Martin Power, his unofficial biographer, Sylvian has crafted “some of the most touching ballads of the pop era, ballads that bring something out in the listener; at worst, sorrow, at best joy”.Read More
Indian animation has grown in size and production volume over the last few years. One of the most important trends that we see emerging is an effort toward making animation for adults rather than simply narrative fiction for children. India's young animators are creating thought-provoking, mature films on the state of the world around them. Animators are moving from animated shorts to full animation serials, plus a whole range of animated commercials is by now a very important part of the industry.
An interesting phenomenon is also happening -- animation is being handed down from father to son as an art form, comparable, in the Indian tradition, to so many other art forms such as music and theatre.
Review from allmusic.com:The second volume of what appears to be an ongoing compilation series of Russian/Scandinavian experimental electronica and noise is a professionally pressed and packaged CD (Vol. 1 was released as a CDR with no booklet). N&B Research Digest founders Alexei Borisov and Anton Nikkilä on at least four tracks (three as a duo, plus Borisov is one half of F.R.U.I.T.S.). The other contributing artists run the gamut between harsh noise and meticulously chaotic laptop sonic art: Leif Elggren, Benzo, Pink Twins, Mebranoids. Even the Japanese noisician KK Null and the sound terrorists Government Alpha make appearances. Read more @ allmusic.com + Oficial Press Release
Bei Phlow.net ist wiedermal ein Artikelchen von mir erschienen. Thema, wie der Titel dieses Postings schon sagt, sind die zahlreichen Erweiterungen des (meiner Meinaung nach) weltbesten Browsers.
Das Special wird wohl in drei Teilen erscheinen. Teil eins und zwei sind von mir geschrieben, Teil drei stammt vom Mo. Zum Plugin Special
english:
I wrote an german article for the net-zine phlow.net . The article is availible here and the Google translation here. The whole article consists of three parts, part two and three will be online soon. Here is a list of all the links from the article:
Found at boingboing.net
The excellent free peer-reviewed net-journal First Monday has published an exhaustive survey of the earnings made by British and German musicians. Their conclusion? Copyright doesn't give creators a living, and in many cases (such as clearing samples) it costs them more than they can afford.
"According to a GEMA (German collecting society) insider, only about 1,200 German composers can live from their creative output.
Only a small minority of artists reaches ordinary living standards from copyright income...
If an artist wants to include a sample from another record, major rights holders often insist on a controlling interest of 50 to 100 percent of the rights in the new track." Read the survey
