Each year tens of thousands of travelers steer their RVs into Wal-Mart parking lots to "camp" for a night or two. Not because they have to. Rather, because they want to. Just as they seek out national parks and historic sites, RV travelers have marked Wal-Mart stores as travel destinations.
BitTorrent - ein urheberrechtlicher Problemfall Die US-Filmindustrie scheint allmählich auf das Problem des Bit Torrent-Tauschs aufmerksam zu werden. Die ersten Versuche, das Problem anzugehen, wirken aber noch sehr hilflos. Auch wenn die Anwälte ihr Bestes tun, den Eindruck zu vermitteln, US-Recht sei weltweit anwendbar. Mehr
Musikindustrie droht Bit Torrent-Szene Über die Peer-to-Peer Software Bit Torrent ist in Zusammenhang mit "Piraterie" und den Gegenmaßnahmen der Musik- und Filmindustrie nur selten etwas zu hören. Doch das sollte keinen Bit Torrent-Nutzer in Sicherheit wiegen. Mehr
"CJane (formerly Calamity Jane) combine ambient dub with folk, reggae and alternative stylings to form a grim downtempo sound that is at once arresting and depressing. CJane is lead singer Amy Rosalyn's spare vocals and guitars along with the electronic production skills of co-writer Christian Sage (aka Sick Man Of Asia), plus drummer Mikah Azurin's dour rhythms This 3-song EP is a trip through sadness recorded in 1999 and released only now."
The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059]
For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.
Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.
From the microsound mailinglist: "A couple of days ago I was watching an avi file of Blade Runner, when, at a certain point the video started skipping and glitching producing some beautiful visuals. I took some stills and I uploaded them without any retouch, I just resized 'em a bit." More
You can do all sorts of things with music. You can listen to it once, twice, or as many times as you like. You can do it by yourself or with friends. You can give your favorite music as a present. Perhaps you'll be given music as a present yourself. Music you've never heard of and wouldn't otherwise have come across. You can talk about music during the day in the record shop and at home or at clubs in the evenings. Music is culture. And culture is life. More
"Mister Ministeck Norbert Bayer is known for his notorious pixelextravaganza and has created an unexpected renaissance of an almost forgotten technique: The mosaic.
But he wouldn't be known as Mister Ministeck if his mosaics weren't somehow special: They're made from plastic. To be exact: From little plastic pieces, placed on a grid. This children's creativity-game named Ministeck was first produced in the sixties by a small bavarian company."
Z'ev (born Stefan Weiser) straddles the nearly unbridgeable and highly volatile gulf between the art world and the music industry. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, Weiser began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late '70s, he took on the Z'ev moniker to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments. His dozens of collaborative projects expanded to include work with John Cage, Glenn Branca, The Hafler Trio, Psychic TV, and Rhythm & Noise.
- http://dubroom.org/mp3/
Welcome to the Dubroom MP3 Portal! This is a site with links to 100's of (Dub) Reggae tracks, available from diffttttttrent sites on the Internet. When it's free, and legal, and of a certain quality, we will find it and place links to it on this website.
- http://www.versionist.com/
Welcome to Versionist, a website dedicated to the development of progressive Reggae music. But more importantly, this is a project that aims to encourage everyone to make Reggae music.
- http://www.reggaemix.net/
This is Reggaemix.net. The place where you can download free reggae riddims mix mp3 made by Elmonga (Don Monga). Our mix are rated among the best reggae mix around by our members, Djs and some top people in the business. We pride ourselves to the quality of our music and services. Only our members get to download fresh or new released riddims which we mix, and also we have a special link in the member's area for instant free downloads of single reggae tracks and some of our old mix.
INTERVIEW: MAMORU OSHII
As his long-awaited new film Innocence hits US screens, Midnight Eye had a talk with the unique Mamoru Oshii.
FEATURE: PIONEERS OF JAPANESE ANIMATION
The first part of our in-depth and revealing look at the early days of Japanese animation, in conjunction with the retrospective held at Korea's PIFan Festival.
REVIEWS: STEAMBOY
To call it anticipated would be an understatement: sixteen years after Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo returns to directing a feature film.
JOURNEY TO THE WEST
One of the early colour animations from the Toei studio, based on the legend of Saiyuki, better known to some as the irrepressible Monkey.
CUTIE HONEY
Hideaki Anno's candy-coloured live action adaptation of Go Nagai's ribald manga and animation.
ROUND-UP: ANIME SPECIAL
A quartet of films that show the degree of diversity in Japanese animation.
William Abraham Blaze usually posts some of his "gameboy- style-distorted" graphics (actually he used photoshop) on his weblog.He also has a website only for his picture, but I can't find the link at the moment.
The new electronic currents are marked by technology, therefore the musician's creative attitude is dictated by the influence of their tools more than any other moment in history. Electronic music is supposed to spin around electronic technology as well as most of the experimental electronic music from the 80's and 90's was focused to the exploration of new creative and production tools -such us sampler and different kinds of synthesis. The new computer tools let the musician work in an environment where information is the star. more
In the world of clear signals, perfect transmission, fibre optics communication and digital radio broadcasting, the aesthetic forms that imperfect transmission manifests are grossly under-appreciated. That is, to all but a few talented individuals who actively embrace glitches and seek to bring them to life in new and aesthetically pleasing ways. More
Glitch Aesthetics: In the depths of techno fetishism and communication arts.
A brief description of the theme:
In everyday communication it seems we are all seeking perfect transmission.
As millions of bits are pushed from one location to the other, countless error checking protocols exist to eliminate the possibility of imperfect transmission or reception. The breakdown of communication within any form of communication structure or device, creates artifacts. Capturing and appreciating these artifacts is now considered to have become the domain of glitch art. More
The Aesthetics of Failure:
'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music
Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught. Link
Prick up your ears
Can a CD full of silence or the noise of a ticking clock really be as rewarding as a Beethoven symphony?
"CJane (formerly Calamity Jane) combine ambient dub with folk, reggae and alternative stylings to form a grim downtempo sound that is at once arresting and depressing. CJane is lead singer Amy Rosalyn's spare vocals and guitars along with the electronic production skills of co-writer Christian Sage (aka Sick Man Of Asia), plus drummer Mikah Azurin's dour rhythms This 3-song EP is a trip through sadness recorded in 1999 and released only now."
