"This Monday, Burial will release his first full solo release in over 4 years. A three track 12" to be released on Hyperdub, the A-side is titled “Street Halo”, with two supporting tracks “NYC” and “Stolen Dog” ,the first taster of his upcoming album."
The WIRE: "Greek artist Eleni Adamopoulou began her studies in classical music at the age of 12 and has since played piano, flute and keyboards in a variety of different contexts, including jazz, classical and indie rock. As well as completing her studies as a music teacher, she has produced radio programmes for Tripradio in her hometown of Athens. Manekinekod – one of three aliases she has used – is a “factory of rhythms” with lyrics exploring “a world of non-existence”
"Merkwürdig bekannt kommen dem Fan japanischer Monsterfilme die Nachrichtenbilder der Erdbeben-Tsunami- und Atomreaktor-Katastrophe vor. Es sind Bilder, die das Kino der »Monsterinsel« Japan immer wieder vorweggenommen hat: Zerstörte Großstädte, zertrampelte Fischerdörfer und explodierende Ölkessel an japanischen Hafenanlagen waren gewissermaßen ein Leitmotiv der japanischen Monsterfilme der siebziger Jahre. »Nature is like Godzilla«, schrieb mir gestern ein japanischer Freund aus Tokyo." Weiter auf www.zeit.de
"Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?"
10 Nicolas Bourbaki
09 Hardy and Ramanujan
08 Henri Poincare
07 Georg Cantor
06 The Mathematicians who helped Einstein
05 Carl Friedrich Gauss
04 Evariste Galois
03 Joseph Fourier
02 Leonard Euler
01 Newton and Leibniz
BBC: "Why are books about the Third Reich such an ongoing publishing phenomenon in the UK....and what does it say about us?
According to trade magazine The Bookseller, there were no less than 850 new titles about the Third Reich published in the UK in 2010 (up from 380 in 2000 -.that's more than double in ten years). These join the thousands already available on Amazon covering everything from Hitler and the occult to SS uniforms and the teaspoons of the Third Reich; from Nazi bunkers and secret weapons to the regime's interest in flying saucers, the lives of the Fuhrer's personal pilots and (our favourite) 'How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany'."
Guests also include the comedian David Mitchell, Laurence Rees, Guy Walters and Henry Stevens, author of 'Hitler's Flying Saucers'.
"The Luminant Point Arrays show tube televisions in the moment they are swithed off. The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture discribes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography."
Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop is a new collection of essays that analyses the concepts and music of one of the most enigmatic and influential groups of the 20th and 21st centuries.
"For this edition of The Wire Salon, Music Non-Stop's co-editors Sean Albiez and David Pattie will draw together several of the themes introduced in the book, offering a variety of new perspectives on Kraftwerk's unique synthesis of music, technology, visual iconography and performance into a finely honed Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork)." Read on
- Download the feature (MP3 file) from http://thewire.co.uk/articles/6010/
- More info at http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133992&SubjectId=1381&Subject2Id=1396
- Kraftwerk: Music Non-Stop reviewd in The WIRE
"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with “The Tomb” and ends in 1935 with his last original work “The Haunter of the Dark.” The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written."
thewire.co.uk: "Field recordings interwined with classical composition form the backbone of the work of Obsil, aka Giulio Aldinucci. Vicino is the third of his albums, following his earlier Points and Distances releases. The name means Ob(serving) sil(ence)."
THe WIRE Tapper 25 is the latest free CD from The WIRE Magazine.
Tracks:
01 Hana “Tate”
02 Artifact Shore - Instruments Of The Devil
03 K-Branding “Driller”
04 Nicholas Szczepanik “Please Stop Loving Me (excerpt)
05 Obsil - Snow Days In March
06 Socrates That Practiçes Music “Judged By The Left Eye”
07 Manekinekod “Toy Factory” (installation excerpt)
08 Tchicai/Hurley/Sanders/Coxon “Jomajomi Tchucosa (Live 26/11/10)”
09 Melmac “Accident”
10 Bohm & Cooper-Marquardt Duo “Ruf Der Apostel (Apostles Calling)”
11 Sheik Anorak/Weasel Walter/Mario Rechtern “Wotizup?”
12 Mark Hanslip & Javier Carmona “Preambolo”
13 Luciano Maggiore & Francesco fuzz Brasini “Chàsm’ Achanès (Huge Abyss)”
14 Christian Skjødt “Innocent Square”
15 Stearica “Warp Lag”
16 Philippe Petit & Friends “Succumbed To Gravity”
17 Nicolas Salomon “Zoom”
18 HHY & The Macumbas “Legba In Dub”
19 My Cat Is An Alien “The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness” (Wire Tapper edit)
20 Telebossa “Século Do Progresso” er alternate edit)
thewire.co.uk: "Based in Brooklyn, New York City, Artifact Shore’s influences include Noise, Prog and post-rock, jazz and shoegaze. They are concerned with, in their own words, grace and fear, optimism and nihilism, clarity and distortion"
thewire.co.uk: "Formed in 2004 in Brussels, this Belgian trio began as an experimental chaos-rock outfit whose debut Facial mixed free jazz and hypnotic Industrial noise"
normanfairbanks.com: "It’s a novel system that creates music and sound based on realtime data depending on your location that are continuously feeded into the app, meaning the KLING KLANG MACHINE No1 can’t be compared with other generative music apps which mostly utilize pre-programmed algorithms. There are some nice ways to manipulate sound and store personal preferences. For now the functionality is still kind of basic but the original concept will be more and more implemented in future updates and releases."
- The developers homepage: http://www.normanfairbanks.com/
- The app http://itunes.apple.com/app/kraftwerk-kling-klang-machine/id423962784
"Hyperdub's Kode 9 drops a bass heavy Essential Mix with exclusive music from his new album Black Sun. Kode 9 is Glaswegian producer Steve Goodman and he runs Hyperdub, the label that gave the world Burial and Darkstar."
A German feature of Blixa Bargeld with Englisch subtitles.
arte.tv: "Niemand verkörperte in den frühen 80er Jahren das Lebensgefühl der Westberliner Punkszene besser als Blixa Bargeld. So kaputt, so dämonisch - und dabei so originell - war sonst keiner. Noch heute wird Blixa Bargeld hauptsächlich als Sänger und Kopf der "Einstürzenden Neubauten" wahrgenommen, dabei ist Blixa Bargeld ein Multitalent und hat sich nie nur auf die Musik beschränkt. "Blixa Bargeld - Mein Leben" zeigt einen erstaunlich aufrichtigen und offenen, ja privaten Blixa, der trotz seiner Zugänglichkeit nichts an Radikalität verloren hat. 2009 feiert Blixa Bargeld, bürgerlich Christian Emmerich, seinen 50. Geburtstag."
"The concert performance (4. November 2004) on this session was filmed at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer existing DDR (East Germany). The Palast der Republik has since been torn down in order to make space for a new building in the location of the old Royal City Palace. The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fanatasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion."
dctp.tv: "Ray Kurzweil ist ein Tausendsassa. Als einer der erfolgreichsten Erfinder und Inhaber von Patenten ist er Geschäftsmann, Gründer einer Universität, Berater der US-Regierung und der wohl berühmteste Zukunftsforscher. Ray Kurzweil aber hat auch eine Mission: Er will den Tod besiegen und er ist zuversichtlich, dass dies der Menschheit schon in diesem Jahrhundert gelingen wird. Klingt verrückt?"
wdr5 - das philosophische Radio: "Was ist eigentlich das Internet? Ein Medium? Eine Technik? Ein Netz? Ein System? Das Internet stellt Welten in Frage und ordnet sie neu: Die Welt der Ökonomie, die Welt der Medien, die Welt des Lesens, die Welt der persönlichen Beziehungen. Wer das Internet verstehen will, der muss wissen, welche Ereignisse für sein Entstehen wichtig waren, welche ökonomischen Konsequenzen es zeitigt, was an ihm verbesserungswürdig und was erhaltenswert ist." Weiter
arte.tv: "Glühbirnen, Nylonstrümpfe, Drucker, Mobiltelefone - bei den meisten dieser Produkte ist das Abnutzungsdatum bereits geplant. Die Verbraucher sollen veranlasst werden, lieber einen neuen Artikel zu kaufen, als den defekten reparieren zu lassen. Die bewusste Verkürzung der Lebensdauer eines Industrieerzeugnisses, um die Wirtschaft in Schwung zu halten, nennt man "geplante Obsoleszenz". Bereits 1928 schrieb eine Werbezeitschrift unumwunden: "Ein Artikel, der sich nicht abnutzt, ist eine Tragödie fürs Geschäft".
Gestützt auf mehr als drei Jahre dauernde Recherchen, erzählt die Dokumentation die Geschichte der geplanten Obsoleszenz. Sie beginnt in den 20er Jahren mit der Schaffung eines Kartells, das die Lebensdauer von Glühbirnen begrenzt, und gewinnt in den 50er Jahren mit der Entstehung der Konsumgesellschaft weiter an Boden." Weiter
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