Techno feature from French/German TVstation ARTE. Featuring artists like Aphex Twin,Derrick May, Mad Mike, Autechre, Juan Atkins, Ken Ishi, Lfo, Sven Väth and Dimitri.
earlabs.org: "Alireza Mashayekhi received his formal education in music at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, where he studied composition with Hans Jelinek.
Mashayekhi's music is very hard to find. The combination of traditional middle eastern music with the cold computer sounds gives this music a special feeling." Download an untitled release here
npr.org:"In more than a decade of making music, Wilco has weathered a tumultuous label change, infighting and lineup changes, drug addiction, and depression. It's also emerged as one of the most innovative, influential, and widely revered bands making music today. Hear the group perform a full concert, webcast live on NPR.org from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club." Listen here
rarefrequency.com: "Anatolian grooves from the sixties and seventies. The show contains songs by some of the best-known Turkish psych artists, such as Erkin Koray, Mogollar (pictured here), and 3-Hurel, as well as Edip Akbayram, Bulent Ortacsil, Mazhar & Fuat, Ozemir Erdogan & his Orchestra, and the wonderful protest singer, Selda."
wnyc.org: "Chan Marshall is better known as Cat Power, the singer-songwriter who of late has begun living down her reputation for unpredictable live shows. Her latest album is "Jukebox," an all-covers sequel to her 2000 effort "The Covers Album." On this latest release, she takes on Dylan, Sinatra and Billie Holiday while backed by the Dirty Delta Blues Band. She joins us for a live performance." Listen here
BLDBLOG: "For a recent design competition called What if New York City..., architects and city planners were asked:
What if New York City were hit by a Category 3 hurricane? What if the most densely residential city in the country loses hundreds of thousands of homes in a few hours? What if millions are left with nowhere to live, to work, or to go to school? What if subways flood, streets close, and whole neighborhoods are submerged by up to 23 feet of ocean water and battered by 130 mile-per-hour winds? What if New Yorkers need a place to live during years of reconstruction?
Local architects Studio Lindfors offered a weirdly hilarious answer to these questions in the form of habitable blimps.
Welcome to Cloud City." Read on
BBC: "Nagyrev was a sleepy village in a remote part of Hungary - until a spate of mysterious poisonings made it big news. Nearly 50 of the town's men lay prematurely dead in the cemetery. Their bodies were found to be full of arsenic - and the suspects were their wives.
What caused the women of Nagyrev to poison their husbands? Was it, as commentators at the time suggested, the impact of World War I or of social change? Was it revenge for their husbands' drinking and violence?
The programme reconstructs the facts of a baffling mass-murder with archives from the trial, press reports and the memories of one Nagyrev resident still living who remembers the case." Listen here
abc.net.au: "Musical legends Lou Reed, John Cale, and David Bowie join with actors Joe Dallessandro and Dennis Hopper and writer Tom Wolfe in an all star tribute to the iconic artist Andy Warhol. Warhol produced the debut album by the Velvet Underground and was the subject of Lou Reed and Jon Cale's song cycle Songs for Drella, which threads through this account of his life and times." Listen here
Das Ohr ist das erste entwickelte Organ des Menschen. Verschließen geht nicht - nur zuhalten. Und selbst dann werden, wenn auch gedämpft, immer noch genügend Geräusche wahrgenommen. Störend oder angenehm. Die Soundscape-Bewegung sucht die Klangschaft in der Landschaft." Weiter
<a href="ondemand-mp3.dradio.de"Wie klingt Berlin?
wikipedia.org: "Peat Bog Soldiers is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages, became a Republican anthem during the Spanish Civil War; was a symbol of resistance during the Second World War; and is popular with the Peace movement today. What makes it perhaps so poignant is the knowledge that is was written, composed and first performed in a Nazi concentration camp by the prisoners themselves." Read on
The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language.
Icelandic singer Björk incorporates the reactable as a key instrument of her Volta world tour."
A film by Guy Ben-Ner concerning private property and family values, made with hidden cameras in German Ikea shops.
art-magazine.de: "Der israelische Künstler Guy Ben-Ner hat sich mit seiner Familie in Ikea-Filialen einquartiert, um vor versteckter Kamera familiäre Werte, Eigentumsverhältnisse und Fragen territorialer Inbesitznahme zu diskutieren. Bei der Kölner Kunstfilmbiennale wurde "Stealing Beauty" unlängst mit dem ersten Preis ausgezeichnet, nun ist der Film in einer Ausstellung in Berlin zu sehen." Weiter
Momus (songwriter, blogger and a journalist for Wired): Cory is an odd man. Incredibly bright, he seems to have the multitasking skills of Shotoku Taichi: throughout the meeting, rather than interact with the other people around the table, he tapped away on his laptop, updating Boing Boing or sifting restlessly through images on File Pile. The man has the worst case of ADD I've ever seen; a geek so bright he's become an idiot. His speeches on copyright were super-well-informed, but came across like set pieces he'd delivered many times before at similar events." Read on
spiegel.de: "Cory Doctorow hat den Ruf, ein rastloser Zeitgenosse zu sein. Der 36-jährige Schriftsteller aus Toronto wurde schon zum "William Gibson auf Speed" gekürt, in Anlehnung an den einflussreichen amerikanischen Science-Fiction-Autor. Als Mitherausgeber von Boingboing.net füttert er auch den meistverlinkten Blog der Welt permanent mit neuen Einträgen." Weiter
"Loituma is a folk quartet based in Finland; it was formed at the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, where members attended the folk music department. They follow Finnish vocal and kantele traditions, producing quartet arrangements for both Finnish harp and a cappella vocals, their music ranging from the rousing to the haunting. Their first album, a self-titled effort, was released on the Sibelius Academy's own label, later being issued by Northside in the United States in modified form as Things of Beauty. They were proclaimed 1997 Band of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folkmusic Festival"
"Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now."
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