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First track from the new Animal Collective EP entitled Fall Be Kind 2009

Single by M, from the album New York • London • Paris • Munich,
Released 1979, Format 7″, 12″, Genre New Wave, Synthpop, Length 3:21,
Label MCA / EMI / Sire, Written and Produced by Robin Scott :

I was looking to make a fusion of various styles which somehow would summarize the last 25 years of pop music. It was a deliberate point I was trying to make. Whereas rock and roll had created a generation gap, disco was bringing people together on an enormous scale. That’s why I really wanted to make a simple, bland statement, which was, ‘All we’re talking about basically (is) pop music

Echo Beach pays tribute to the 30th anniversary of M’s – Pop Musik – TRACKLISTING:

1. Pop Muzik – PARALYZER Remix (12″ Version) 5:26
PARALYZER aka ARN SCHLÜRMANN is a Hamburg based producer and well-known remix artist (Residents, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Queen to name a few).His remix is quite close to the original and is transporting the track into 2009

2. Pop Muzik – DEVO Remix (12″ Version) 5:09
Are we not Men? We are Devo! Devo from Ohio/USA have been totally keen in doing a remix and their performance and remix skills are doing well. http://www.myspace.com/devo

3. Pop Muzik – STEFAN OBERMAIER Remix (12″ Version) 7:54
Stefan Obermaier is based in Vienna and is part of the Vienna Scientist circle. “I am still really inspired by the feeling of downbeat and dub that manifested itself a decade ago in this country really. Nevertheless, these are different times and I am not looking backwards. So I try to go deeper and further, that way, I can give the music a lot more of myself…”- and so, Stefan found his very own sound before he even knew. With tight remix productions for the Greek Timewarp Inc. label (”The Obsession Bug”) and Cologne based reggae cohort Razoof (”Spirituality”, released on the De-Phazz driven imprint Phazz-a-delic), Stefan showcased his remarkable abilities on an international level throughout the last months and outlined a unique vision in sound, easily fusing comfortable home listening pleasures and uplifting dancefloor vibrations.. http://www.myspace.com/stefanobermaier

4. Pop Muzik – INTERNATIONALLY TRAINED BUNNIES Remix (12″ Version) 6:22
Internationally Trained Bunnies aka Pete Rivera & Felix Wenzel are from Hamburg and describe there skills as Funk, Soul und House – so you know what kind of pop muzik you get: http://www.myspace.com/internationallytb

5. Pop Muzik – TODD TERJE Remix (12″ Version) 9:52
TODD TERJE from Oslo/Norway is one of the leading “Cosmic Disco” DJ´s and remixers of nowadays. He released tracks on Eskimo Rec., Playhouse, Hed Kandi, Fabric, Kitsune, Ministry of Sound and on other well reputated labels. Especially his remix of Jose Gonzalez created waves recently… http://www.myspace.com/toddterjemusic

6. Pop Muzik – SALZ Remix (12″ Version) 6:53
SALZ were founded 1997 by Emanuel Geller, Axel Erbstoesser and Sebastian Becky in Cologne and they remixed Thomas Dolby, Solar Moon, Razoof and Swayzak just to name a few. SALZ are described as “high recommended dub tech-house with slight Basic Channel influence and a great 80’s appeal”. http://www.myspace.com/salzmusic

7. Pop Muzik – STACHY AKA STACY G (12″ Version) 6:35
Stachy aka Stacy G is a very advanced and groovy electronic producer and remixer who got famous as part of the German HipHopsters Fischmob beside his partner DJ Koze. His warm and spherical, clicking, shuffling and pulsating remix is perfect and destined for the more advanced dancefloor. He remixed Hildegard Knef, Pierre Henry and Phono amongst others

8. Pop Muzik – KARL MOESTL Remix (12″ Version) 7:12
“I am a dirty electric fusion”… is Karl’s credo in producing music and his DJ- and live performances. KARL MOESTL who is very well-known as the producer of the successful electronic-duo ‚ WALKNER.MÖSTL and one of the outstanding artists on g-stone (the Kruder & Dorfmeister label) has made his own way in life after some outstanding productions and remixes for:, Tosca, Senor Torpedo, Hot Pants Road Club, Trio Electrico, Vienna Scientists, Eric Fischer, DeepdiveCorp Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Cafe Drechsler…” His Pop Muzik remix is a Tech – House floor filler. http://www.myspace.com/karlmoestlmusic

9. Pop Muzik – DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL Remix 6:11
The Swiss Dub Space combo DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL from Zurich have created very high intense cover versions of Falco’s Jeanny and Metallica’s Enter Sandman. Now the have re-constructed POP MUZIK and they have created a dubby psychedelic reggae track…highly addictive. ” http://www.myspace.com/dubspencertrancehill

10. Pop Muzik – FROST & WAGNER Remix 4:09
The producers Oliver Frost (keyboards) and Adrian Wagner (drums) live in Berlin. They met in the reggae band “Growing tree” at the end of the 80s. In 2000 they started producing their own stuff, innovating and developing their reggae style music. Traces of other music genres like soul, jazz, hip hop, britpop have an impact on their music as well. Frost’s and Wagner’s productions are rich, with a strong emphasis on base sounds. Their music is pure and can by no means be reduced to reggae only. The have done productions for: G-Stone, Best Seven/Sonar Kollektiv, INFRACom!, Golden Delicious, Buback, Brownswood Recordings, as well as now the Pop Muzik remix with a heavy dubby flavour. http://www.myspace.com/frostundwagner

11. Pop Muzik – RIDDIM WIZE Remix 3:37
TRICKY CHRIS is well known as a producer for Elektrolux, Global Youth and Futuristic Dub Foundation. He was involved in remixes for Anne Clark, Shantel & Bucovina Club, Jammin Unit. His remix is a kind of ska orientated pop reggae uptempo version and a dance floor filler.

12. Pop Muzik – TORPEDO BOYz Remix (12″ Version) 4.50
Berlin based producer Torpedo Boyz won 2008 the American independent award for their production “Cum On Feel The Boyz” (Best Dance/Electronic album). They are also well known as a DJ team around the globe! The German playboy wrote once: “Just the sort of jet set cool – we love” and that’s exactly the feeling we have about their POP MUZIK remix. http://www.myspace.com/torpedoboyz

A mobile opera house that can be pulled apart and fit into a shipping container was unveiled by the Bavarian State Opera. The €2.1 million Pavillion 21 - designed by architect Wolf Prix of the firm Coop Himmelb(l)au – seats 300 people and it will host its first performances during the Munich Opera Festival in the summer of 2010.

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU was founded by Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer in Vienna, Austria in 1968, and is active in architecture, urban planning, design, and art.

The Pavillon 21 building has perforated, sloping aluminium walls with a “crystalline outer skin” ; gleaming spikes on the outside the opera house were based on a computer space modelling of sound frequencies from Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze and Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”, overlayed and parametrically transferred into the pyramidal forms.

The inside is similarly angular and includes a lobby and a large stage. The main auditorium is free of clutter to house experimental performances. It is being built in collapsible modules that can be dismantled and fit in a shipping container: the philosophy behind the portable building is staging travelling shows. It will then return “home” every summer for the festival, but the rest of the year it will travel the world and can be hired out to other opera and theatre companies.

What to do on a Sunday afternoon when you’ve worked up an appetite for art? The galleries are closed and you’ve seen what’s up in the museums. Browse through Art Forum and you’ll see an ad from “The Performance Call Girl”! The Icelandic artist, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, has for more than a year now been alert by her computer every Sunday in case someone anticipating a web performance rings her on Skype. Each person gets a special treatment, a spontaneous, dreamlike fantasy that invokes questions of the identity of the performer, who transcends a diversity of mythical roles via current image technology.

They are a modern merger of female stereotypes, e.g. the Gypsy fortune-teller and the prostitute who accepts appointments by call. Ásdís has a variety of oddments close at hand; wigs, glimmer, Christmas decorations, feathers, mirrors and lights. Should someone call, she delivers an abstract display – a “visual poem”, she calls it – reciting improvised phrases and demonstrating all sorts of gimmicks. It is fascinating to associate the ridiculously frivolous stunts that she actually employs with the baffling outcome at the other end of the line. The viewer will only get a partial glimpse of what is going on, distorted colours, blurred shimmers and vague messages. Behind the razzmatazz there is a serious investigation into the relationship between artist and viewer.

As an art experience, the Skype performances take place in a unique set-up and far from the traditional art space. The viewer is one on one with the artist, who not only performs for him or her alone, but sees them in the same way as they se her. It is an intimate situation evoking the notion of various trades of the sex industry, such as the peep show, and Ásdís certainly does not attempt to conceal this reference by literally naming the happening “The Performance Call Girl”. However, hers is less an attempt to take on the clichéd metaphor of art and prostitution, as it is a pun aimed at highlighting the unorthodox art site, which is the Internet.

The work became an experiment in presence and absence of artist and viewer … She and the viewer are both looking at a computer screen with a built-in camera, they gaze at her and she gazes back at them. The screen becomes a mystical tool, where the body and the senses get distorted. In Iceland (where there is a tradition for the creation of new local words for new inventions) the word for “computer” is “tölva”, a portmanteau word deriving from “tölur” for numbers and “völva” for seeing stone. The computer becomes a crystal ball that Ásdís and the viewer scry simultaneously.

She flirts with the notion that the persistent enchantment with technology finds its roots in religious or transcendental imagination. Marshall McLuhan, who is considered a leading thinker of the electronic age, once remarked that the telephone might be likened to a form of telepathy. Technology is pursued in order to extend the human condition and the various ways human beings extend themselves affects our relationships with one another. Skype is certainly a form of human extension, a medium that abolishes the limitations of space between people who wish to communicate.

She is generous enough to offer one “client” after the other a beautiful and unique moment every Sunday, a genuine afternoon delight. As they engage in the conduct, mesmerized, their senses are challenged and the relationship of art and audience put to the test.

From Afternoon Delight
on Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir’s Performance Call Girl
by Markús T. Andrésson (2008)

ArtFem.TV is a non-profit artist run ITV and media art portal presenting Art and Feminism. The aim of ArtFem.TV is to foster Women in the Arts, their art works and projects, to create an international online television screen for the creativity, images and voices of Women.

“Although there is little consensus among women at the present time about where to go next, and although many goals of the Women’s Movement have not been met – there is still violence against women, discrimination in education and employment, racism, and sexism in daily life – contemporary art by women reveals the formulation of complex strategies and practices through which they are confronting the exclusion of art history, expanding theoretical knowledge, and promoting social change.”[Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art and Society, Thames & Hudson, London, 2002]

ArtFem.TV is an attempt to break with a male dominated net-culture and media landscape to highlight women’s emphases in art and media works.

Tour vittoriese dei “Lago Morto”, band punk hardcore composta dall’artista Nico Vascellari, da Giovanni Donadini, creatore del laboratorio “Canedicoda”, Riccardo Mazza e Christian Zandonella.

Per 15 giorni il gruppo, del quale è in uscita l’lp + dvd per “Von Archives”, etichetta di Nico Vascellari e Carlos Casas (filmaker di Barcellona), si è esibito solo ed esclusivamente a Vittorio Veneto, nei posti più insoliti della città, costantemente videoripreso: alla pizzeria a metro il “Crostino”, alla lavanderia a gettoni in via Oberdan e al negozio dell’usato “Chi cerca trova”.

“Questo è uno sforzo collettivo” ha più volte ripetuto Nico Vascellari durante i concerti. “Lago Morto”, infatti, non è solo un gruppo ma è un progetto artistico, che si configura come occasione di aggregazione, come momento sociale, al quale, di volta in volta, ha contribuito il pubblico presente. “Lago Morto nasce per rimanere a Vittorio Veneto – spiega il Nico Vascellari - Abbiamo accettato di suonare a Graz solamente a patto che una parte di Vittorio Veneto potesse venire con noi. La Kunsthaus pagherà due corriere che trasporteranno circa 120 persone da Vittorio Veneto per assistere al concerto”.

Il progetto è stato presentato alla Kunsthaus di Graz sotto forma di installazione video, nell’ambito della mostra “Rock – Paper – Scissors. Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art”, a cura di Diedrich Diederichsen

via oggitreviso.it

NON STOP MUSIC PLANET

A 24 h movie around the planet. A night trip around the earth and through Internet and networks

WE’RE LOOKING FOR PARTICIPANTS AND CONTRIBUTORS,

Submit a live stream, send a URL to : cockpit@nonstopmusicplanet.com

The trip will take place from Saturday 30th of May until Sunday 31 of May at noon at the Point Ephemere in Paris, where several screens will be displayed. In the middle of the installation, a cockpit will welcome the streamed video director and technicians conducting the performance.

A space trip by Olivier Forest & Eric Daviron Performance powered by MU for the FUTUR EN SEINE Biennale – in partnership with the FILMER LA MUSIQUE festival & RE:MU & POINT EPHEMERE

Following the time zones, and screened live, a series of concerts and music performances around a planet where you never go to sleep : following the night, we slip from one place to another, from a punk rock club to a rehearsal room, from a giant arena to a desert or a mountain, from sunset to dawn.

The concerts will not only be broadcasted from major cultural cities but also from lost places, no man’s land, secret locations. The performance will link those places, and we’ll slip from a well-known band to an unknown artist, from a cultural centre to an isolated place, from a musical point of view to another, using internet as a broadcast network.

Non Stop Music Planet is a free access event for the public. During the whole performance, the Parisian audience will walk around the installation and will be send to the other side of the planet where a gig takes place, where a concert or a party get started. Then they’ll slowly slip to another continent, another town. Beyond the musical aspect, the performance invites the audience to share the global feeling of a moving planet. The performance will also be available live on the Non Stop Music Planet website (coming soon).

You are invited to join in and participate to the event. You are : movie or video director, musician, sound artist or video artist ? You are involved in event organisation, working in a venue ?

You’ll need an Internet connection, a computer, something to make a video (webcam or video recording device) and a microphone. Get in touch for more informations.

So you will take part of the Non Stop Music Planet line up ! At the end of the performance, Non Stop Music Planet will be edited as a DVD (non commercial network) that will be sent to each participant.

Contact

cockpit@nonstopmusicplanet.com

23rd May 2009

While Digital Radio (DAB) is spreading all over Europe, it’s time to remember that, since its birth, the radio has always been a medium for creativity and not just a powerful means of communication, capable of the best as much as the worst.

This idea is still true for many radio and Web radio stations around the world which celebrate radiophononic creation everyday, through the production of inventive and surprising sound pieces. On May 23rd 2009, from midnight to midnight, will thus be set up the first international Radiophonic Creation Day, a 24h programming devoted to radio creation. More than 40 radios and artists, coming from 12 different countries, produced sound pieces that will be broadcast in streaming on the festival website and on FM via 9 radios in Europe.

This festival is not only a way of showcasing the lively contemporary radiophonic creation scene, but also to introduce this art to a wider audience. The Radiophonic Creation Day attempts to include every aspect of radiophonic creation by proposing radio plays, creative documentaries, field recording, experimental and concrete music, sound poetry, Hörspiels and unidentified sound objects.

We hope this event will inspire the production of creative programming in European radio stations and accelerate the setting up of a found to help radiophonic creation. Nowadays, this neglected art still suffers from a lack of financial help that continually threatens its position among the radio production line.

Here the festival Program

Listen to the Radiophonic Creation Day on FM waves and in Streaming on here

Da mezzanotte del 23 maggio 2009 per 24 ore non-st si celebra il Radiophonic Creation Day, festival internazionale dedicato alla creazione di Radio Art . Più di cinquanta radio e artisti provenienti da 12 paesi, per relaizzare un’opera sonora lunga un giorno che sarà trasmessa via streaming sul website del festival, sui siti delle radio partner e via FM su nove radio d’arte europee. Una giornata di opere sonore che provengono dalle pratiche più differenti: radio dramma, documentari, registrazioni sul campo, musica concreta e sperimentale, Poesia e Letteratura sonora, Hörspiels e molti altri suoni non ancora identificati. Organizzato da Association JeL, il festival non vuole essere solo luogo di esposizione dei vari materiali prodotti e assemblati insieme, ma anche un modo per introdurre l’arte radiofonica ad un pubblico più vasto e incoraggiare l’attenzione e il sostegno economico e culturale di questa nuova realtà di espressione e di pratica comune.

Per l’Italia partecipa RAM LIVE con la produzione di Sheherezade’s Diary. 23 May 2009 - Art Rock Literature dell’artista americana Holly Anderson, in collaborazione con le musiciste Lisa Burns e Peg Simone.

RAM LIVE participates to the Radiophonic Creation Day with Sheherezade’s Diary. 23 May 2009 – Art Rock Literature written and performed by American artist Holly Anderson, voices and all songs by Lisa Burns e Peg Simone.

http://www.smokemusic.tv/content/mission-burma-holly-anderson

http://www.myspace.com/pegsimone

http://www.myspace.com/lisabburns