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The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record included in the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. It contains sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may find it. The Voyager spacecraft would take [...]

Avalon Stage:
Alabama 3 unplugged • Bacalao •
The Baghdaddies Big Band • Blazin’ Fiddles
• The Family Mahone • Frank Turner •
The Handsome Family • Hazel O’Connor
• Hobo Jones & the Junkyard Dogs • John Tams &
Barry Coope • Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara •
Katie Melua • Kissmet • Malarchy
•The Men They Couldn’t Hang •
Nuala & the [...]

“We’ve really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.”
-Bill Gates, June 2008

Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation is an exhibition and conference project planned for July 01.-05. 2008 in Berlin which proposes a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of the acoustic.
The project draws the traditions of critical discussion about urban space within the architecture and urban planning discourse–as well as its [...]

YouTube has just announced the launch of the rumored YouTube Screening Room. The news broke yesterday that YouTube was going to be delving into professional films, with the possibility breaking out of their 10 minute mold and into longer form. YouTube is actively pursuing filmmakers to try and get high quality content for the site. [...]

CTM.09 – club transmediale’s 10th anniversary edition – takes place in Berlin from January 23 – 30, 2009 under the theme STRUCTURES – Backing-up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures. Our partner festival transmediale will take place under the Theme DEEP NORTH from January 27 to February 1, 2009.
The joint Call for Entries by club transmediale and transmediale [...]

Moby announced via his film-music Website MobyGratis that he wants amateur filmmakers to submit their versions of a Film, Video or Short for “Ooh Yeah” . The winning filmmaker will receive $10,000 and the title of “official” video (deadline: July 14th).

In His Words:
hi,
i’ll keep this brief.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is [...]