Radiohead’s “Nude” played on old computer hardware.

Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

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Unimpressed by technology 2:

A lovely music video from the director Roel Wouters:.

“The video has been recorded live as part of the opening ‘Nederclips’ at the Stedelijk museum ‘S-Hertogenbosch SM’S (Curated by Bart Rutten).The project was commissioned by the TAX-videoclipfonds and an important criteria was that the audience of the opening was be able to witness the whole shoot, another criteria was that it should be added to the exhibition immediately after the shoot was done. So we had no option to reshoot or edit if something went wrong. This made us so focussed that we did better that any of us have could imagined.”

reminds me of analogue website

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ARGH! Arcade Fire had to cancel their european tour due to lead singer Win’s illness - and I got a ticket for tomorrow’s sold out show in Munich :(

Wake up featuring David Bowie:

Intervention, what an amazing new song.
Arcade Fire playing in an elevator and the middle of fans.

Great band, buy their work!

(videos via nerdcore)

The upcoming Nine Inch Nails Album “Year Zero” attracts lots of attention because of a really innovative marketing campaign by Trent Reznor and 42 Entertainment:
It started with mysterious USB Sticks which were found by fans on the toilets at NIN live concerts, containing a new unreleased song each. Later on, fans recognized special merchandise t-shirts with single bold printed letters which formed the sentence “I am trying to believe” - what led to the website iamtryingtobelieve.com. The weird paper chase just begins at this point: more and more hints, sound files, telephone numbers and morse codes were found, forming an extraordinary story all together.
This way, the agency creates a alternate reality game, which attracts attention from outside, and embeds fans as the mainspring of the paper chase. I’m really looking forward to see more innovative concepts in this field!
Read more at: fudder (german), the NIN Wiki, Fan Forum article.

But now the story got a negative side as well: users which shared the songs from the usb sticks got dunned by a lawyer, because the record label wasn’t really involved in this project. Innovation meets dusty bureaucracy.
Read more at Basic Thinking and Irgendwas ist ja immer (both german).

I’m probably going to visit the Future of Sound Tour at Goldsmith’s College/London on March the 1st. If someone from likes to join me from Salzburg, just contact me. I’m going to book the flight tonight. Listen and view performances/talks from UnitedVisualArtists, Chris O’Shea, Owen Lloyd and more interesting contemporary artists.
Read more at the official website and wmmna.

Wow, what a great idea from a multimedia team from Oberhausen/Germany:

“Tank-FX is a non-virtual effect device. The reverb is generated by
a huge 11m tank made of ferroconcrete. We put some mics and
speakers in it and connected them to a Unix box, so everybody can
use it now from the internet. To try it out, just upload some
audio material. It will be processed in real-time.”
Website

An additional very pleasant aspect of the project is that they only used free software, which is listed on the website.

I don’t know anything about this, except that I love it:
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Originally this blog was planned to deal also with concerts I’ve been to, and towns I’ve visited, but due to some reasons I always forgot about that. Perhaps it’s also the missing words to describe those situations.
Whatever, on Sunday I’ve been to Sophia in Salzburg. They played their very sophisticated and complex songs for about 2 hours, leaving us with some whooshing in our ears, because of very noisy parts. But the communicated mood was perfect, the band was happy, and so were we.

Latest release: Technology won’t save us

preEnter is a audiovisual project which involves the audience in an interesting way: There are set up 6 flat bed scanners which people can use the way they like it and the results are being used for an audiovisual live performance later on. Watch out for the video documentation.
The people behind this project are from the german artist group YouAreWatchingUs.