Many artists are using the Quake and Wolfenstein graphics engine to create "art".
Feng Mengbo
After months of playing the visceral action game Quake III Arena (Q3A) with others online, Feng Mengbo used the games ability to create custom game characters, to develop his own version for his performance piece (called Q4U).
Nullpointer - Q "This project is the results of my initial attempts to exploit the source code of the original Quake1 game. In this case I chose to transform the graphics engine to produce a highly abstract environment that not only reduced the actual 3D ambitions of the original to minimal 2D planes but also exposed the pixel mechanics behind the software. "
q3apd
q3apd uses activity in QuakeIII as control data for the realtime audio synthesis environment Pure Data.
WOLFENSHMOOG 4 computers were network conected and the shooting game "return to castle wolfenstein" was running on it. all the sound output of these computers were conected to 3 other computers. on these, 3 musicians were real time processing the sounds generated by the game.
nas - it ain't hard to tell (acapella)
autechre - 6ie.fr
my bloody valentine - touched
booba - ecoute bien (instru)
abstrackt keal agram - pièce
pharaoe monch - simon says (acapella)
rza - ghost dog theme
beyonce - crazy in love (acapella)
el-p - deep space 9mm (instru)
missy elliot - work it (acapella)
four tet - glasshead
dizzee rascal - seems to be
to rococo rot - form dream to daylight
kreidler - reflections
sheryo - j'reste underground (acapella)
prefuse 73 - word extinguisher
machine drum - half the battle
the streets - don't mug yourself (acapella)
gza/genius - liquid swords (instru)
chapterhouse - mesmerize
anti pop consortium - lift (acapella)
Normally written cLOUDDEAD, this mysterious US hip-hop collective create some of the most bizarre recordings to emerge from any genre of music, least of all the world of rap. Put together by rappers Doseone, Why?, and Odd Nosdam, cLOUDDEAD's 2001 debut featured a guest vocalist list drawn from America's rap underground and was originally released during the previous year as a series of six 10-inch singles. Mixing strange, chanted vocals and ambient soundscapes characterised by tape and distortion, the limited edition singles gained a word-of-mouth reputation and before too long had sold out. Compiled on a single disc and three LPs by the Big Dada label, the music retained its capacity for surprise and established cLOUDDEAD as one of the most ambitious and unique projects in contemporary music. <a href="www.bbc.co.uk"Stolen from the BBC
There are also some very low quality mp3 files at the official homepage
Listen:
cLOUDDEAD is played very often at www.wfmu.org , but it seems they don't know how to spell the names band. Here are the links to all the different spellings:
It's no surprise that a group exists that is dedicated solely to the idea of the "empty turntable" - that is, creating music using only turntables, no records, "prepared" in the manner of John Cage with an array of household objects: rubber bands and who knows what else. After all, we already have our no-input mixer artists, our shortwave splicers, our field recorders of powerline interference. ...
No, what's surprising about the Southern German quartet is that, far from being a one-skip wonder, or an arts grant gimmick, they've pursued their minimalist (mediatist?) practice over the course of seven releases now. More
Alex Hacke of Einsturzende Neubauten and Larry 7 of the Analog Society. Guests Alex Hacke and Larry 7 perform together (2 live improvised sets) and discuss passed and future projects. Alex discusses his current solo recording project, future Neubauten tours, etc.
Initially started as a print journal in 1974, the online publication of Bright Lights Film Journal began in 1996, and continues to today. As noted on its site, the journal is "a popular-academic hybrid of movie analysis, history, and commentary, looking at classic and commercial, independent, exploitation, and international film from a wide range of vantage points from the aesthetic to the political." The journal is edited by Gary Morris, and contains pieces by a number of persons, including independent writers, film critics, and freelance journalists. While users can browse the archives dating back to 1996, the articles are also thematically organized on a sidebar on the homepage. These themes include Animation, Hong Kong Films, Documentaries, and Film Noir. The interviews section is quite strong, and contains candid pieces with Frederico Fellini, Robert Wise, and John Woo
1 dalek - speak volumes
2 kettel - cenny
3 boards of canada - aquarius
4 wagonchrist - sopping shitty
5 diverse - build
6 wagonchrist - step to the music
7 dabrye - 73.3 megamix (by prefuse73)
8 boombip - roads must roll
9 mum - sleep/swim
10 algorithm - cpu (instrumental)
11 cex - first for wounds
12 lali puna - bi-pet
13 cyne - 400 years (instrumental)
14 prefuse73 - desks pencils bottles
15 main source - fakin' the funk
16 chris de luca & peabird - i gonna give it to you
17 machine drum - yo what uh yeah
18 casino vs japan - where to? / what for?
19 funckarma - kobalt
20 cyne - steady
21 telefon tel aviv - fahrenheit fair enough
22 d'arcangelo - all that j
23 phonecia - dilido
24 scorn - dangler
25 animals on wheels - build a
26 sense - byeway rewired (metamatics remix)
27 proem - early rings (tim kochremix)
28 amon tobin - sabateur
29 dj shadow - building steam with a grain of salt
The BBC has confirmed that it's investigating the use of peer-to-peer file sharing for the distribution of its programmes.
It follows director general Greg Dyke's announcement at the recent Edinburgh TV festival that the Corporation is planning to make its archive accessible via the Internet.
BBC new media director Ashley Highfield revealed the first details of the plans at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam over the weekend.
He said the BBC was developing a 'super EPG' that would work on any platform and let users record programmes as with a PVR.
Despite the group's rather complicated history and numerous manifestations, HiM is largely the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Doug Scharin. A member of the rich Midwest indie scene, Scharin began HiM as a side project during downtime from his various day jobs (including membership in Codeine, Rex, and June of 44). HiM's music is consistently labeled as a dub-heavy brand of post-rock. Drawing freely upon the numerous influences of its members, the group is more accurately a fusion of rock, post-punk, jazz, and Afro-beat, with an ear for studio-enhanced roots reggae. More
DJ Danger Mouse's recent Grey Album, which remixes
Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles White Album, has been hailed as a innovative hip-hop triumph. Despite that and the fact that only 3,000
copies of the album are in circulation, EMI sent cease and desist letters yesterday to Danger Mouse and the handful of stores that were selling the album, demanding that the album be destroyed.
"EMI isn't looking for compensation, they're trying to ban a work of art," said Downhill Battle's Rebecca Laurie.
"Special interests, including the major labels, have turned copyright law into a weapon," said Downhill Battle co-founder Holmes Wilson. "If Danger Mouse had requested permission and offered to pay royalties, EMI still would have said no and the public would never have been able to enjoy this critically acclaimed work. Artists are being forced to break the law to innovate."
The Grey Album has been widely shared on file sharing networks such as Kazaa and Soulseek, and has garnered critical acclaim in Rolling Stone (which called it "the ultimate remix record" and "an ingenious hip-hop record that sounds oddly ahead of its time"), the Boston Globe (which called it the "most creatively captivating" album of the year), and other major news outlets.
01 - dj logic - michelle »»
02 - the philadelphia experiment - grover »»
03 - the detroit experiment - church »»
04 - charlie hunter - oakland »»
05 - scratch (feat. bilal) - square one »»
06 - jazzanova - another day »»
07 - yohimbe brothers - smoke and dust dub »»
08 - spanish harlem orchestra - mama guela »»
09 - none but the righteous - i feel good »»
10 - scratch - breath of fresh air »»
11 - king britt - philadelphia experiment (dj ghe rmx) »»
12 - dj logic - the projects (rob swift remix) »»
13 - jazzanova (feat. ursula rucker) - keep falling »»
14 - the dirty dozen brass band - ruler of my heart »»
15 - dj logic - ron's house »»
16 - jazzanova - l.o.v.e. and you & i »»
Though based in Montreal, Deadbeat and his ultra-textured ambient dub soundscapes made their way around the world, finding large audiences in Europe as well as in North America. Deadbeat producer Scott Monteith is a member of the same fertile Montreal scene that includes such luminaries as Akufen (Marc Leclair) and Algorithm (Jeff Milligan). Like his peers, he gained international acclaim in the early 2000s once the French-Canadian city became a hot spot for laptop techno (see the Monteal Smoked Meat compilation), thanks partly to the world-reknown Mutek festival as well as a wealth of Montreal-based record labels. <More
the first vienna vegetable orchestra plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. or, with their new cd automate, a cuke-o-phon and radish-marimba instead of laptop and sampler. the music presents a transfer of electronic music pieces and structures to the instruments of the vegetable garden. More info and downloads
My computer is still broken and right know I don't have the time to fix it. I think the biggest problem is, that I don't know how to fix it. I am writing these lines on my girlfriends, which doesn't have a mouse and I am not used to those small keyboards.
I have to ask a friend to fix my computer, but as I said, I don't have much time at the moment, because I should be prepairng for some tests at the university. I am almost 29 and still studying (which is not very unusual in Germany) so I should hurry a bit.
An anonymous reader sez, "The BBC made a unique deal with Real Networks which disposes of their spyware tactics. Basically, if a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC website, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuicance-free version of the player. It's because the BBC have such a stringent public service remit, that it was offensive to charge people a license fee for BBC content, then make them pay all over again for the facility to view/listen to it." found at boigboing.net. Get the BBC-realplayer here.
Many artists are using the 
Normally written cLOUDDEAD, this mysterious US hip-hop collective create some of the most bizarre recordings to emerge from any genre of music, least of all the world of rap. Put together by rappers Doseone, Why?, and Odd Nosdam, cLOUDDEAD's 2001 debut featured a guest vocalist list drawn from America's rap underground and was originally released during the previous year as a series of six 10-inch singles. Mixing strange, chanted vocals and ambient soundscapes characterised by tape and distortion, the limited edition singles gained a word-of-mouth reputation and before too long had sold out. Compiled on a single disc and three LPs by the Big Dada label, the music retained its capacity for surprise and established cLOUDDEAD as one of the most ambitious and unique projects in contemporary music. <a href="
It's no surprise that a group exists that is dedicated solely to the idea of the "empty turntable" - that is, creating music using only turntables, no records, "prepared" in the manner of John Cage with an array of household objects: rubber bands and who knows what else. After all, we already have our no-input mixer artists, our shortwave splicers, our field recorders of powerline interference. ...
No, what's surprising about the Southern German quartet is that, far from being a one-skip wonder, or an arts grant gimmick, they've pursued their minimalist (mediatist?) practice over the course of seven releases now. 
Though based in Montreal, Deadbeat and his ultra-textured ambient dub soundscapes made their way around the world, finding large audiences in Europe as well as in North America. Deadbeat producer Scott Monteith is a member of the same fertile Montreal scene that includes such luminaries as Akufen (Marc Leclair) and Algorithm (Jeff Milligan). Like his peers, he gained international acclaim in the early 2000s once the French-Canadian city became a hot spot for laptop techno (see the Monteal Smoked Meat compilation), thanks partly to the world-reknown Mutek festival as well as a wealth of Montreal-based record labels. 
the first vienna vegetable orchestra plays music exclusively on vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. or, with their new cd automate, a cuke-o-phon and radish-marimba instead of laptop and sampler. the music presents a transfer of electronic music pieces and structures to the instruments of the vegetable garden. 