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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

World premiere of the Tan Dun composition “Internet Symphony, Eroica” as selected and mashed up from thousands of video submissions from around the globe.

Symposium on Urban Trajectories in Cairo
January 16th -17th, 2009
Rawabet Theatre
3 Hussein Al Me’mar Pasha Street
off Mahmoud Basiouny Street
Downtown, Cairo

The Kharita symposium is the first public event of an ongoing initiative that explores multiple urban orders simultaneously at play within Cairo.
In recent years, suburban complexes and town centres have been emerging along the outskirts of the capital at an unprecedented scale. These real-estate developments are under construction in parallel to an incessant proliferation of informal settlements across the city’s districts. Meanwhile, educational institutions, multi-national corporations and government apparatuses are moving out of the centre and into those new zones.
Through a series of interviews, lectures, videos, panels and performances, we look at how the circulation of power operates within the city, while inscribing our notions of value, difference and desire. We approach the current moment of building cities as a potential site for articulating new positions vis-à-vis sentiments of nostalgia and the function of criticality. The Kharita symposium considers the impact of cities-to-be on art practices and discursive activity in Cairo.
Pericentre Projects- Nida Ghouse, Malak Helmy & Shahira Issa

Contributors:

Amr Abdel Awi, Sherif el-Azma, Hisham Bahgat, Clare Davies, Eric Denis, Marwan Fayed, Markus ElKatsha, Alaa Khaled, Aglaia Konrad, Samir el-Kordy, Akram al-Magdoob, Omar Nagati, Marion von Osten, Katja Reichard, Joseph Schechla, Peter Spillmann and Brian Kuan Wood.

The Kharita symposium is programmed by Pericentre Projects, in Collaboration with the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art.
Symposium Program

WALTZ WITH BASHIR

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life.
Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images …

The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations

Good vibrations from good vibrations tour 1976 with birthday party of Brian with Paul and Linda Mccartney

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.”
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Long after The Sex Pistols buckled under the puppet strings of Malcom McLaren and The Clash grew tired of singing the day’s headlines, The Damned continue to this day to embody the punk ethic – the ability for a group of individuals, whether talented or not (again, preferably the latter), to grab a guitar, cop a microphone and some drums, and get up on stage and play – anything.

The first single off the album, “New Rose”, clocked in at an amazing two minutes, and would go down in history as the first punk single.

Most of the other songs on the albun, save for the brooding “Feel The Pain”, are vintage punk rock – amazinglyfast, full of abrupt chord changes, pounding drums, and caustic lyrics. Needless to say, the album became an instant classic and strengthened The Damned’s postition at the forefront of the burgeoning punk movement.

And although they have been shunned at times by the recording industry, The Damned continue to bring new sounds to the stage and the studio with their trademark dark vocals, poppy melodies and rocking guitar sounds.

WEDNESDAY 19TH NOVEMBER

THE DAMNED
**Album Launch**
Islington Academy, London, UK