“I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they’re not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that,” he said.
“I do well enough already and I made this film because I want the world, to change. The more people who see it the better, so I’m happy this is happening.”
The "Brief Safe" is an innovative new diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling. Items can be hidden right under their noses with these specially-designed briefs which contain a fly-accessed 4" x 10" secret compartment with Velcro® closure and "special markings" on the lower rear portion. Leave the "Brief Safe" in plain view in your laundry basket or washing machine at home, or in your suitcase in a hotel room - even the most hardened burgler or most curious snoop will "skid" to a screeching halt as soon as they see them. (Wouldn't you?) Made in USA. One size. Color: white (and brown). To add realistic smell, check out "Doo Drops" on Page 67. Order it here
George Cruickshank of Ultima Thule speaks with Pieter Bourke and Dead Can Dance vocalist Lisa Gerrard about their album Duality in this interview. Download it here
The increasing use of laptop computers in the performance of electronic music has resurrected timeworn issues for both musicians and audiences. Liberated by the use of the laptop as a musical instrument, musicians have blurred the boundaries separating studio and stage, as well as the corresponding authorial and performance modes of work. On the other hand, audiences experience the laptop's use as a musical instrument as a violation of the codes of musical performance. This is not a new issue for electronic music: the lack of visual stimuli while performing on technological "instruments" has plagued electronic music for over 40 years with little progress in providing solutions.
This essay discusses issues of performance from the point of view of how electronic music is received rather than how it is presented. Drawing on concepts found in "reception theory," I will examine three levels of reception inherent in the performance of laptop music as used in the performance of contemporary electronic music. These three levels are: the grain of laptop performance, the sequence of historical linkages, and the system of super-culture and its effect of the reception apparatus of the public...More
While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist. According to the below complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General, Donald D. Thompson, 57, was caught in the act by a clerk, trial witnesses, and his longtime court reporter (these unsettling first-hand accounts will make you wonder what's going on under other black robes) More info
Warum rebellieren wir nicht gegen das Copyright?
Gespräch mit Lawrence Lessig
Das derzeit gültige Copyright treibt schon seltsame Blüten: Während man seit Jahrhunderten beliebig und frei aus Texten zitieren darf, macht man sich heute sofort strafbar, wenn man auch nur eine Sekunde Filmmaterial ohne Erlaubnis des Urhebers benutzt. Eltern müssen Angst haben, dass ihre Kinder ein Micky-Maus-Bild auf ihre Homepage packen - auch das verstößt gegen geltendes Recht. Einer der vehementesten Kritiker an dieser Rechtssituation ist Lawrence Lessig, Professor für Jura an der Stanford Universität und Vorstandsmitglied der Free Software Foundation. Golem.de sprach mit ihm am Rande der Konferenz Wizards of OS 3 über seinen Kampf gegen das Copyright und sein neues Buch Free Culture.
Born from the dried up dust of "legendary" California sludgemeisters Man Is The Bastard, the Bastard Noise ensemble have long been active collaborators with the international power electronics underground. For this release though, Merzbow assault is set aside in favour of a more reflective, even minimal approach. The group is stripped down to core member Wood, playing alone or in duo mode. Supposedly a meditation on our dying world, his thriftstore electronics, cobbled together instruments and lo-fi Ambient noise summon up potent images of fossilised birds and cicadas chirupping in a petrified forest. The results are surprisingly mature and listenable.
Tanakh is the name for music written and improvised by a collective of musicians; music that is focused towards beauty and experimentation within structure instead of towards a particular musical genre or style. In the last five years this revolving collective has included a large number of musicians headed up by principle songwriter Jesse Poe. Although currently residing in Florence, Italy, Poe comes from a background of American rural music. His great-grandfather wrote country ballads and his great aunts and uncle had a live radio program broadcast out of Indiana. More
Based in Montreal, David Kristian has looked far back into electronic music's past to unite his vision of soundtrack music and experimental electronics. Inspired by the first completely electronic film score, 1956's Forbidden Planet by Louis and Bebe Barron, Kristian recorded a 1997 album (Cricklewood) as a tribute to the radical sound experiments that the Barrons used to record it. Kristian's recording career began in the early '80s while working at a cable-television station in New Brunswick. Deciding to produce his own scores to science-fiction/animation shorts aired on the station, he composed soundtracks consisting of tape loops and analogue experiments tied to the heyday of science fiction in the 1950s. More
A trailblazing force in psycho-acoustic music, avant-garde composer and performer Alvin Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1931; educated at Yale and Brandeis, he also spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to Brandeis in 1962 to teach and conduct the university's chamber chorus. His breakthrough composition, Music for Solo Performer (1964-65) for Enormously Amplified Brain Waves and Percussion, was the first work to feature sounds generated by brain waves in live performance; biological stimuli played an increasing role in Lucier's subsequent work as well, most notably through his notation of performers' physical movements. More
As you may (or may not) be aware, the Meat Beat Manifesto "Fans Who Are Musicians" remix project has been gaining momentum since its inception well over a year ago.Two new remixes by Exillon (Zod/Tribal Treble) and Line Noise (Laced Milk Technologies) have just been upload for your MP3 audio consumption!
For more info about downloading all 16 remixes, click: digitalchemist.com
Currently featuring remixes by: 8FM, Adrian Cabassa & Willie Lister, Basin Jently, Disco Room, Exillon, Introspekt, Hexane, Line Noise, MJK, Resident Lab, Ron West, Thread and Topher.
Johannes M. Ackner holt Märchen und andere Literatur-Klassiker in die Moderne und bietet sie als MP3-Hörbücher an - völlig kostenfrei.
Johannes M. Ackner ist Journalist und Sprecher. Das würde als Vita freilich noch nicht ausreichen, um dem Mann aus Leipzig einen ganzen Artikel zu widmen. Interessant über seinen Bekanntenkreis hinaus wird der Mann mit dem Dreitagebart, dem verschmitzten Grinsen und der angenehmen Stimme erst, wenn er sich in einen digitalen Märchenonkel verwandelt.Mehr Info
<img src="www.antville.org" align="left" hspace="3" height=240">Michael Gira founder of Young Gods Records: "2 years ago I first heard the crude home made recordings of Devendra Banhart, then a homeless, wandering, neo psych/folk hippie artist and musician, not yet 21 years old. We released these recordings on YGR because we'd never heard anything quite like them, ever. His voice - a quivering high-tension wire, sounded like it could have been recorded 70 years ago - these songs could have been sitting in someone's attic, left there since the 1930's. The response was astounding . Devendra soon moved here to NYC (from SF), where he lived in squats, couch-surfed, and finally found himself a home (very recently), suddenly riding a tidal wave of press acclaim, 3 or 4 US tours, tours in Europe, a special feature on NPR (for God's sake) – in short, a seismic shift in his fortunes." More
Kam via netaudio mailingliste: "moritz & ich waren anfang des jahres beim köln- campus-radio und haben eine sendung zum thema netaudio gemacht. dabei haben wir ein wenig aus unserer netaudio-lieblingsbox gespielt (hippocamp, textone, thinner etc. sowie ein paar eigene von iD.EOLOGY) und halt so´n bissel zeug zu thema netaudio, netlabel, netzkultur etc. referriert. ist jetzt online und kann man sich auf scene.org runterladen und anhören"
"Ich" ist in diesem Fall Jörg Friedrichs von iD.EOLOGY
Kostenlose heise-Bücher zum Deutschland-Start von Creative Commons via rohrpost mailingliste:
Am Freitag fällt auf der Berliner Wizards of OS-Konferenz der Startschuss für die deutschen Creative Commons-Lizenzen. Pünktlich zu deren Vorstellung werden erstmals zwei Bücher des heise-Verlags zum kostenlosen Download im PDF-Format ins Netz gestellt.
Die beiden Bücher mit den Titeln „Freie Netze“ und „Mix, Burn & R.I.P.“ stammen aus der Telepolis-Buchedition des heise-Verlags. Sie werden im Netz unter den Bedingungen einer Creative Commons-Urheberrechtslizenz veröffentlicht, die das nichtkommerzielle Weiterverbreiten der Werke ausdrücklich erlaubt. Wer mag, kann die elektronischen Ausgaben der Bücher beispielsweise über P2P-Netze austauschen oder per E-Mail an Bekannte verschicken.
Creative Commons ist eine internationale Non Profit-Organisation, die sich einen gemeinschaftlicheren Umgang mit geistigem Eigentum auf die Fahnen geschrieben hat. Dazu stellt sie Kreativen verschiedene von der Open Source-Bewegung beeinflusste Urheberrechtslizenzen zur Verfügung. Ziel der Lizenzen ist es, nicht mehr in jedem Falle alle Rechte vorzubehalten sondern Konsumenten gezielt einzelne Nutzungsrechte
einzuräumen. Die an lokale Gesetzgebungen angepassten deutschen Lizenzen werden am Freitag auf der in Berlin stattfindenden Wizards of OS-Konferenz vorgestellt.
Die Initiative zur Lizenzierung der beiden heise-Bücher ging von den Autoren der Werke selbst aus. Janko Röttgers, Autor des Buchs „Mix,Burn & R.I.P Das Ende der Musikindustrie“, erklärt dazu: „Uns geht es bei diesem Schritt auch um ein politisches Signal. In Zeiten von Hausdurchsuchungen gegen Tauschbörsen-Nutzer möchten wir zeigen, dass Urheber auch anders mit ihrem Publikum umgehen können.“ „Ich bin sehr froh, dass der Verlag uns diesen Schritt ermöglicht, denn für mich ist es eine logische Entwicklung. Schon allein von den Themen her, mit denen ich mich beschäftige“, ergänzt Armin Medosch als Autor des Buchs „Freie Netze Geschichte, Politik und Kultur offener WLAN-Netze.“
Beim heise Verlag stieß die Idee, die beiden Bücher kostenlos im Netz zu veröffentlichen, schnell auf offene Ohren. Buchverlagsleiter Michael Barabas sieht darin ein interessantes Experiment und meint dazu: „Wir freuen uns, damit eine Initiative analog der erfolgreichen Open-Source-Bewegung zu unterstützen, die einen Weg aufzeigt, wie die unterschiedlichen Interessen der Rechteinhaber geschützt werden
können.“ Florian Rötzer, Chefredakteur von Telepolis und Herausgeber der Buchreihe, begrüßt die Initiative: "Zu strenge Urheberrechtsgesetze gefährden die Wissensgesellschaft und die Grundlagen der Kreativität."
People say this is a mix of modern western electronic music and african music. I just think it's very beautifull, sounds a bit like the ep Lichter from The Notwist. More reviews here. Peole who aren't interested in this kind of music, but would like to design a webpage wich is allmost unreadeble should also have a look.
...at a time when noise rock and punk had yet to make their presence known, Reed released this 64-minute aural assault that offered up a densely layered soundscape constructed from feedback, distortion, and atonal guitar runs sped up or slowed down until they were all but unrecognizable... More
Born John Wardle, Wobble was an old friend of Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten. When the Pistols broke up, Rotten formed Public Image Limited, and Wobble became the bass player. After the group's first few albums, Wobble had a falling out with Rotten (now Lydon) and guitarist Keith Levene and departed for a solo career, also collaborating with artists such as Can members Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay and U2's the Edge. Wobble's solo repertoire ranges from pop to pseudo-reggae to difficult-to-listen-to experimentation. More
Bin heute sehr faul, und hab dem Stefan daher etwas html geklaut: Für die, die es noch nicht wissen: Phlow ist dieses Jahr für den Grimme Online Award nominiert ! Damit der Publikumspreis an Phlow geht, solltet ihr brav eure Stimme abgeben und natürlich alle euch zur Verfügung stehenden Daumen drücken !
The "Brief Safe" is an innovative new diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling. Items can be hidden right under their noses with these specially-designed briefs which contain a fly-accessed 4" x 10" secret compartment with Velcro® closure and "special markings" on the lower rear portion. Leave the "Brief Safe" in plain view in your laundry basket or washing machine at home, or in your suitcase in a hotel room - even the most hardened burgler or most curious snoop will "skid" to a screeching halt as soon as they see them. (Wouldn't you?) Made in USA. One size. Color: white (and brown). To add realistic smell, check out "Doo Drops" on Page 67. 
A trailblazing force in psycho-acoustic music, avant-garde composer and performer Alvin Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1931; educated at Yale and Brandeis, he also spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to Brandeis in 1962 to teach and conduct the university's chamber chorus. His breakthrough composition, Music for Solo Performer (1964-65) for Enormously Amplified Brain Waves and Percussion, was the first work to feature sounds generated by brain waves in live performance; biological stimuli played an increasing role in Lucier's subsequent work as well, most notably through his notation of performers' physical movements. 
As you may (or may not) be aware, the Meat Beat Manifesto "Fans Who Are Musicians" remix project has been gaining momentum since its inception well over a year ago.Two new remixes by Exillon (Zod/Tribal Treble) and Line Noise (Laced Milk Technologies) have just been upload for your MP3 audio consumption!
