...His idea of what role a cello could play in jazz and modern music changed when he heard Hank Roberts in the string trio Arcado. Not too long after this, Friedlander began working with saxophonists John Zorn and Marty Ehrlich and trumpeter Dave Douglas. He performs on Douglas' 1993 release on Soul Note entitled Parallel Worlds. More
"Outside the Inbox is a compilation of songs inspired by and titled after the subject lines of mass-email (spam). I asked artists to choose a spam subject line and then write a song with the same title.
It started out as a novelty idea, but the results have far exceeded my expectations. Aside from the amusement of turning something as annoying as spam into art, I'm very happy to have the chance to showcase some of the great independent music happening on the Internet these days"
unter anderem mit Andreas Ammer und Console. Eigentlich nur zum streamen, mit dem Winamp-Plugin Streamripper kann man die Höhrspiele trotzdem runterladen.
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, author of The God of Small Things, for which she won the Booker Prize. Born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, she spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture.
Roy is also a well known peace activist. One of her first essays was in response to India's testing of nuclear weapons in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The essay, titled The End of Imagination, is a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies.
In Germany she gaind additional fame, because a guy from television (Ulrich Wickert) quoted from her bokks, saying "Bin Laden and Bush are similiar minded". He had to appologise in public...
Downloads:
I collected all the articles she wrote for "Outlook India" during August '98 and April 2003 and converted them to a handy book-style pdf file.
ROY
(application/pdf, 941 KB)
For decades, short wave listeners have been hearing stations that do nothing but read blocks of numbers, usually using a woman's voice, in a variety of languages and on innumerable different frequencies. All available evidence indicates that some of these transmissions may be somehow connected to espionage activities. These are the numbers stations, the most enduring mystery on the shortwave bands. More info
Some artists are using snippets from number stations transmissions for theire own tracks. Fans of Scanner, Merzbow or Autechre may even like to listen to them un-edited :-)
Just follow the links below to find mp3 recordings.
Links:
The most comprehensive webpage, links and downloads
The compilation is entirely devoted to artits from iceland. You won't find the global players Björk and Sigur Ros on it, because I think everyone allready knows those artists. If not, use the search function of my weblog to find plenty mp3 files from both.
Most of those groups are entirely unknown. At least unknown to me but maybe well known in iceland.
The compilation contains a wide range ofl styles, from rock to pop and electronica. All tracks were found on the homepage of Bad Taste. At the time I was downloading all the mp3 files, the nice people of bad taste were offering more than 70 files (~230MB). Most of the artists are offering more than one track, but my plan was to have as many artists on the compilation as possible.
The cover is also availible as a Microsoft word file, so if you don't like my selection, you can easily change the cover.
Enjoy... and drop a line to let me know how you liked my selection.
Although Trekkers may think their beloved Star Trek is the only TV series from the '60s about a multi-ethnic crew of intergalactic explorers, there is indeed another starship out there "boldy going" in much the same direction. In the alternate universe known as German television came Space Patrol?The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion.
First broadcast in 1966, the black-and-white show was the country's first true science fiction TV series, produced by several different German networks. (French television helped finance the series, which resulted in a parallel version with French supporting actors.) Although a hit with the German public, Spaceship Orion lasted only seven episodes (titles included "The Fight for the Sun," "Invasion," and "Attack From Space"). A second season was planned but never shot. Not only were production costs high (moreso if the show were to convert to color), but Spaceship Orion caught a lot of flack from critics who thought that the destructive instincts of the Orion's crew had a whiff of fascism about it.
After cancellation, the show continued on in print form as a series of pulp magazines (not too dissimilar from Star Trek's life after death). Stolen from PopCult Magazine
Here in Germany, the Orion is some sort of cult tv-show. But most of the younger people don't remember or don't like it (because of the poor special effects). But nevertheless, this year a feature movie hit the big screen ! They transformed the seven episodes in opne movie.
The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). More
The authors trace the history of electric performance art. They begin with the roots of this art form in 18th-century experiments with “animal electricity” and “artificial electricity,” which were often performed as public demonstrations in royal courts and anatomical theaters.
Next, the authors sketch the development of increasingly powerful techniques for the generation of electric current and their applications in destructive body manipulation, culminating in the electric chair.
Finally, they discuss the development of electric muscle-control technology, from its 18thcentury beginnings through Duchenne de Boulogne’s photo sessions to the current work of Stelarc and Arthur Elsenaar. More
The googlepoweredgogglebox is a tool made by Sam Woolf using Macromedia's Director software to explore the idea of generative film-making. The idea of generative or process art has been around for at least as long as Brian Eno and most probably for a good while longer. It has (some of) its roots in the experimental music movement of the 1960's and the work of avant-garde composers such as John Cage and Steve Reich, and in the work of artists associated with the Fluxus movement, such as Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik. More
The military is teaming up with hip-hop bible the Source to recruit black urban kids with pimped-out Hummers and off-da-hook merchandise.
"You have to go where the target audience is," says Col. Thomas Nickerson, director of strategic outreach for the U.S. Army Accessions Command, who says that the Army just reached its recruitment goal of 100,200 enlistees this year. "Our research tells us that hip-hop and urban culture is a powerful influence in the lives of young Americans. We try to develop a bond with that audience. I want them to say, 'Hey, the Army was here -- the Army is cool!'" More
Google Groups Art (sometimes called "Google Art") is a hack that uses/abuses the fact that Google Groups color-highlights searchterm queries within Usenet posts it displays. The result is that color images are generated within the Google Groups (Usenet) posts themselves. Google Art first surfaced in summer 2002.
When making Google Art, you post to Usenet entirely in plain ASCII text, replacing intended blocks of color with the ASCII characters of your choice. You then indicate within your post the search queries (and their order) for which users should search Google in order to see the post appear in the proper colors. (This will probably make more sense once you look at the examples below.)
The software download link presented here will take you to a utility created by Stuart Langridge that lets you automatically generate ASCII text for your own Google Art post. However, the software art project of primary interest to this submitter is the Google Art hack itself. More
"We believe in a future where music will no longer be considered a linear composition, but a dynamic structure, and musical composition will extend to interaction. We also believe that the divisions of composer, performer, and audience will be blurred, by the introduction of such media.
Block Jam is a musical interface controlled by the arrangement of 25 tangible blocks. By arranging the blocks musical phrases and sequences are created, allowing multiple users to play and collaborate. The system takes advantage of both graphical and tangible user interfaces. Each block has a visual display and a combination of a gestural input and a click-able input. Each Block metaphorically contains a sound group that can be chosen via the gestural input, the click-able input changes a block functionally. Thus, musically complex and engaging configurations can be rapidly assembled. The tangible nature of the blocks and the intuitive interface promotes face-to-face collaboration, and the presence of the GUI allows for remote collaboration across a network." More
3 minute Movie of the First Prototype is availible at the blogjam projet homepage (link above)
"We are very pleased to announce that People Like Us have a weekly one hour radio show on WFMU, called "DO or DIY". It will run on Wednesdays, 7-8pm NY time (that is midnight to 1 UK time)tonight." listen here
Dolmetsch online "Minimalism has also been called repetitive music, mediative music and process music. It was developed in the 1960's primarily in America and during the 1970's became successful in Europe as well"
I don't know if some of you realised, but the drop down menue in the right coloum wasn't very up to date. Now, every WIRE issue mentioned in my weblog can again be reached by the drop down menue.
...His idea of what role a cello could play in jazz and modern music changed when he heard Hank Roberts in the string trio Arcado. Not too long after this, Friedlander began working with saxophonists John Zorn and Marty Ehrlich and trumpeter Dave Douglas. He performs on Douglas' 1993 release on Soul Note entitled Parallel Worlds. 
Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, author of The God of Small Things, for which she won the Booker Prize. Born in Shillong, Meghalaya to a Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father, she spent her childhood in Aymanam in Kerala. She left Kerala for Delhi at age 16, and embarked on a bohemian lifestyle, staying in a small hut with a tin roof and making a living selling empty beer bottles. She then proceeded to study architecture at the Delhi School of Architecture.
The authors trace the history of electric performance art. They begin with the roots of this art form in 18th-century experiments with “animal electricity” and “artificial electricity,” which were often performed as public demonstrations in royal courts and anatomical theaters.
