Summer 2005, Neubaugasse, a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome. Something you might have seen before in the form of two-dimensional representations or photomontage is going to be translated for the first time into three-dimensionality, into the here and now reality of Vienna’s Neubaugasse, by Christoph Steinbrener und Rainer Dempf.
“Delete” will entail a very likely unique cooperation of all resident shopkeepers with a spectacular art project, a cooperation that has been made possible by the shopping street management unit of the Vienna Economic Chamber. For a period of two weeks, the entrepreneurs will renounce their identities to become part of a large-scale installation.
Originally broadcast on Friday 29th October 7 - 8.30pm GMT on London's Resonance 104.4fm. Please forgiven the terrible 'booming' sounds in the studio - the people next door to the radio station seemed to have been having a party that night! This show is dedicated to Jhonn Balance, who sadly departed this mortal Coil just 2 weeks after the show was broadcast. You can hear one of his tracks in the show.
Early Electronic Oddities is an exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations like the Mixtur-Trautonium, the Ondes-Martenot, the Rhythmicon, the Ondioline, the RCA synthesizer, electro-theremin and the inventions of the Italian Futurists and Raymond Scott. Live discussions, field recordings and amazingly unearthed rare recordings presented by two theremin players, Miss Hypnotique and Bruce Woolley. Features recorded contributions by Bob Moog and Jean-Jacques Perrey."
Bravo is a dual-gender magazine, with a readership that is about 58
percent female among the 1.75 million copies it sells across Europe. Butthe unique and startling thing about it, for a publication whose readership includes kids as young as 10, is its rather candid approach to sex.
While I was a teen I dind't read Bravo very often, because the Heavy Metal content was close to zero, but I bought all the issues which contained Star Wars poster.
The article is actually a good read, the article argues about the aproach to teenage sex in the USA and Germany.
This is because the culture in Germany promotes a kind of openness about teen sexuality — rather than being gratuitous, it’s educational. In America, teen magazines are also training manuals for most aspects of adolescent life, from one’s first kiss to choosing the right outfit to wear to dazzle your college interviewer. But anything in the bedroom — we don’t go there [...] In the US, attitudes are often ambivalent and contradictory. “US magazines send mixed messages about sexuality — it’s good to be sexy, but best not to have sex; it’s fine to be sexually active (especially if you’re dating, in love, use safer sex), but better if you’re not,”
Wilco guitarist and frontman Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig offer up their opinions regarding Napster, free culture and the arts. Lessig wrote the 2004 book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Steven Johnson, author of Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, will moderate the discussion."
from brainwashed.com :Japanese punksters Melt Banana might be pop fans at heart, but they'd rather play loud and fast than sing karaoke like the other kids at school. They have been recording and touring for ten years, leaving people like Brainwashed contributor Jonathan Dean hurt and injured in the ensuing rawkus that erupts at their shows. The shows are intense and the songs are lightning fast and quick and it was an honor to have some one-on-one time with singer Yako.
www.indymedia.org.uk :
"This is a 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian nightmare: 1984
The acting may be dated, but the cautionary message remains just as chilling...so, turn up the sound, dim the lights, and remember... Big Brother is watching you!"
"[no.signal] is a london-based cell focusing on the production and organisation of ad hoc 'experimental' music projects. Its intent is to increase the interconnectivity between the London art/music community whilst presenting specific projects abroad, privileging cross-cultural artistic collaborations."
no.signal also has a show at radio Resonance FM. I 've not found the time to listen to the shows of Resonance FM yet, except for the archived ones at the wwww.thewire.co.uk webpage. Now I discovered that no.signal also offers downloads of past shows to download.
If you are a fan of of sci-fi and fantasy books, and you are also bored of those tolkien like fantasy books, than you should read "Perdido Street Station" by China Miéville
China Tom Miéville (born September 6, 1972) is a British writer of fantastic fiction. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers who consciously attempt to move the fantasy genre away from the realms of Tolkienesque cliché.
Miéville was born in London, England, where he currently lives. When he was eighteen, he lived and taught English in Egypt, where he developed an interest in Arab culture and Middle Eastern politics. Miéville has a B.A. in social anthropology from Cambridge and a master's with distinction and PhD from the London School of Economics. He has also held a Frank Knox fellowship at Harvard.
He stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance. He is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, and his left-wing politics colour his writing (they are particularly evident in Iron Council, his fourth novel).
His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards. Perdido Street Station won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards. His third, The Scar, has been nominated for the 2003 Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy awards.
"Game Music" and "Game Music Processes" are music releases produced by altering the sounds of the weapons from the 1st person shooter Unreal Tournament 2004. All of the recordings are made by playing the video game. The music and the production environment are available under copyleft license at tadar.net
From the reviews on the Antenne webpage:
The 8 tracks of their debut album is float with a poignant delicacy and a vibrant intelligence; sparse, repetitive and minimal electro trip-hop, one could think this is boring and cold but this is not and it bears no resemblance to minimal techno or even minimal music. Antenne's composer, Kim Hansen, which can be known for his collaboration with the noise band Grind, breaks the boundaries of what the trip-hop genre has brought us in the last decade with a fearless use of experimental electronics and subtle noise bursts which brings an unique character to his music. Vaporous electronics around an haunting atmosphere with machines-like noises echoing over a thick beat, the instrumental Let Me Ride It is an exemplary example of Antenne's abilities.
Raising yet another controversy, Indian-born writer Salman Rushdie claims that porn is vital to freedom and supports his argument with statistics about the volume of porn traffic on the internet in Pakistan. Read more
Wenn Nacktheit subversiv ist Von Salman Rushdie
In vielen Ländern versuchen die Machthaber, Pornografie zu unterdrücken - und machen Sexfilme zu Ikonen der Freiheit.
Natürlich gibt es überall Pornografie, aber wenn sie in einer Gesellschaft auftritt, in der es für junge Männer und Frauen schwer ist, sich zu treffen und das zu tun, was junge Männer und Frauen oft gern tun, dann befriedigt sie ein noch allgemeineres Bedürfnis. Und solange sie das leistet, wird sie manchmal gewissermaßen zum Bannerträger für die Freiheit, ja sogar für die Zivilisation. Würden die Restriktionen, die derartige Gesellschaften gegenüber normalen sozialen, romantischen und sexuellen Beziehungen aufbauen, zerfallen, ginge das Bedürfnis nach Pornografie aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach ebenfalls zurück. Zum Artikel (in meinem Furl Archiv)
