Tag Archives: Music

Statement zu modernen Verwertungsmodellen von Musik

Oder warum die GEMA abgeschafft gehört. Diesem Beitrag von Andreas Janson aus der Mailinglist des Landesverbandes Berlin der Piratenpartei braucht man eigentlich nichts mehr hinzuzufügen. Sehr viele gute Feststellungen und Ideen zu Verwertung und Lizensierung von Musik im digitalen Zeitalter. Word! Hallo, ich als Musiker möchte auch mal meinen Senf dazugeben. Bitte, bitte, bitte tretet [...]

If You Dig African Music…

…this will be a heaven for you: http://combandrazor.blogspot.com Just have a look around…even if you don’t dig african music. It’s a pleasure to experience how he shares and informs and in that way supports his community. Diggit!

'Playing for Change'

‘Change’ is a much stressed word these days, don’t you think?… Anyhow, this seems to be a beautiful and very committed project/documentary/people… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM[/youtube] www.playingforchange.com

Wanderlust

This video of Björk and Encyclopedia Pictura is out since a while. However, I just saw it in 3D and urge you to find some glasses!… You will find a 2D and a 3D version at http://encyclopediapictura.com/ Enjoy!

A great storyteller

…Even if not directly related to ‘green’ issues, in this case. Somehow to cultural ones, though…And definitely to musical ones and good vibes… Enjoy Bill from 1973 hanging out with his magic sticks…! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgcQydWWeE[/youtube]

On 'buying and selling the earth for private gain'

These song-lyrics are quite contemporary in my book, although they tell a story from 1649. They tell you about the beginnings of privatization, they tell you ‘what went wrong’ and make you think about what today is being considered normal: ‘buying and selling the earth for private gain’. They also tell you about a different [...]

Jazz, Systems Thinking and Disputes

And so for sunday we continue with some music. To be exact: with the liner notes from Bill Evans for Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’, Comunbia Records, 1959: There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush [...]

Jammin' with Whales

David Rothenberg is a writer, musician, and professor of environmental philosophy. This video was made by Gari Saarimaki while David was jamming live with white beluga whales in the White Sea, Karelia, Russia. www.thousandmilesong.com www.whybirdssing.com www.whaleofatime.org

Vibration/Klang erschafft Form

‘Bei einem Embryo existiert der Pulsschlag vor der Entwicklung des Herzens.’ Alexander Lauterwasser

Radiohead: Art trying to meet Ecology

They are aware and that’s why we like them! Wonder when others dealing with masses of people search for alternatives… This is from their website, entry of the 2nd of may (www.radiohead.com) Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour. [...]