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Jacaszek – PENTRAL-the sound of the interior from Michal Jacaszek on Vimeo.

On 09.09.09 (the reverse of 06.06.06….??!!) will be out the new Beatles Game:

Representatives from the three companies said that the game — which was conceived with input from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison — will aim to feature the entire Beatles catalog and will offer an “experiential journey” off the band. This is the first time the Beatles music has been presented in an interactive, video game format. “This game will take you on a journey from the Beatles first album Please Please Me until the last album at Abbey Road,” said Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones. “It will span samples of the whole catalogue all the way through.” The three companies would not clarify whether Beatles content would be available for Rock Band or whether the game would feature avatars of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. “The project is a fun idea which broadens the appeal of the Beatles and their music,” McCartney said in a statement. “I like people having the opportunity to get to know the music from the inside out.” The acquisition of the video game rights to the Beatles catalog is a major, scale-tipping coup for Harmonix and MTV Games as they fight for music video game dominance over the like-minded Guitar Hero.

via RollingStone

Dal 17 al 22 Marzo, ogni giorno alle ore 14.00, RAM LIVE trasmetterà dalle sponde del fiume Creek di Dubai e Sharjah via streaming su http://live.radioartemobile.it/ un reportage intitolato “Sounds like Dubai” a cura di Ilari Valbonesi.

Un appuntamento quotidiano da intendersi come evento d’arte radiofonica, e spazio etico nella modalità dell’ascolto, che raccoglierà le testimonianze, i suoni e le voci della cultura mondiale provenienti dal cuore del Golfo Persico, nell’ottica di consolidare il ruolo della piattaforma web come pratica decentrata attraverso il suono e lo sviluppo di modelli flessibili di cooperazione tra pubblico e privato, più idonei alla promozione della diversità culturale e dell’incontro.

Sono infatti giorni cruciali per il dibattito dell’arte contemporanea. Fitte le iniziative d’arte che si dilatano sul territorio degli Emirati: Mapping Palestine, l’inaugurazione di Art Dubai con il Global Forum, format internazionale entro cui dialogheranno le teorie della diaspora dell’arte, del consumismo culturale, dell’audience, con la presenza di importanti artisti, intellettuali e operatori culturali. Altro tema di confronto sarà il ruolo delle Biennali come snodi di trasformazione dell’arte mondiale, con un focus su tre città in particolare: Tehran, Atene e Mosca. Inaugurerà Al Bastakiya Art Fair, fiera dedicata alla scena emergente degli Emirati e Abraaj Capital Art Prize, premio rivolto agli artisti che provengono dal Medio Oriente, Nord Africa e Sud Asia. E ancora, negli stessi giorni apre la Biennale di Sharjah , strategica per l’apertura del Golfo al dialogo interculturale che supera i confini delle nazioni in direzione “mondo”. Infine la presentazione della 53.ma Biennale di Venezia, che vede la partecipazione del primo Padiglione degli Emirati Arabi Uniti. Dubai aspira a diventare la porta globale.
Buon Ascolto!

Josh Freese’s an official member of three bands: the Vandals (since 1989), Devo (since 1995) and, should it ever reconvene, A Perfect Circle (since 2000). (Since 1972, by the way, refers to when he was born, on Christmas Day.)

But he has played on more than 250 albums for almost as many artists, and of every stripe: Chris Cornell, Clay Aiken, Rob Zombie, Avril Lavigne, Rhett Miller, Puddle of Mudd, the Offspring, Kelly Clarkson, Good Charlotte, Daughtry, Ween, Gavin Rossdale, Katy Perry.

From march 24th he’ll promote his new album, only from his website.

Here’s the complete rundown:
$7
* Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15
* CD/DVD double-disc set
* Digital download

$50
* CD/DVD double-disc set
* T-shirt
* “Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed drum head and drumsticks
* Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)

$500 (limited edition of 15)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed cymbal and sticks
* Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)
* Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and “all you can eat” shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks
* Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his car
* Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.
* Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
* Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino
* Signed DW snare drum
* Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
* Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Josh writes a song about you and makes it available on iTunes
* Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the YouTubes
* Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
* Get drunk together. If you don’t drink, we can go to my dad’s place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
* Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on Since 1972

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour
* Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
* Twiggy from Marilyn Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles in Long Beach for dinner
* Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)
* At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours … take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour
* Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)
* Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals’ old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
* Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts and Legends” tour. (Separate rooms … no spooning.)
* Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on ‘em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)
* Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again … couples welcome and discreet parking available)
* Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
* Signed CD/DVD and digital download
* T-shirt
* Go on tour with Josh for a few days
* Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story
* Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)
* Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while
* Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.
* If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
* Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
* If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks
* Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna

Check here for the audio documentation of the Club Trannsmediale 09.

DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. Sinfonia Antarctica transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller’s field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with historic, scientific, and geographical visual material, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man’s relationship with nature.

Sinfonia Antarctica follows Miller’s highly acclaimed performance work DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation, which he has performed in Athens, London, Rome, Paris, Sydney, Auckland, New York, LA, Chicago, Atlanta, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, The University of Michigan, and at numerous other festivals, universities and theaters. The DVD of Rebirth of a Nation will be released by Starz Media (The Simpsons, King of the Hill…) in early 2008.

Xing presenta Netmage 09
international live-media festival – 9a edizione
22>24 gennaio 2009
Bologna – Palazzo Re Enzo

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PROGRAMMA
Giovedi 22 Gennaio
h 20.00 Mesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)
Bock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
h 21.00 + h 23.00 Megascope
Virgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) Eclissi
h 22.30 Mangrovia
Camilla Candida Donzella (I)
Pete Swanson/John Wiese/Liz Harris (USA)
Emeralds (USA)
Keiji Haino (JP)

Venerdi 23 Gennaio
h 20.00 Mesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)
Bock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
h 21.00 + h 23.00 Megascope
Virgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) Eclissi
h 22.30 pm Live Media Floor
Pierre Bastien (F) Kinetic Syncopators
The Skaters (USA) play Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque by Roland Lethem (B)
Growing (USA)
ATAK NIGHT: Keiichiro Shibuya (JP), Evala (JP)
h 24.00 Mangrovia – Village Oblivia
Invernomuto (I) with Sunburned Hand of the Man (USA)
Sabato 24 Gennaio
h 21.00 Mesmerizing Show (Performing Arts)
Bock & Vincenzi (UK) The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown
h 21.00 + h 23.00 Megascope
Virgilio Villoresi/Dominique Vaccaro/Angstarbeiter (I) Eclissi
h 22.00 Live Media Floor
Németh (A) plays I.E., Domino by Lotte Schreiber (A)
Andrea Dojmi/Flushing Device (I) The Distance to the Sun
Mudboy (USA)
Black Dice (USA)
h 24.00 Mangrovia
Camilla Candida Donzella (I)
Pascal Battus/Kamel Maad (F) Eyear
Mattin/” ” [sic] Goldie (Basque Country/UK) Deflag Haemorrhage/Haien Kontra
Thomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli (NL/I)
AAVV jam session (Mangrovia/Live Media Floor all guests plug-in)

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Netmage 09
sede: Palazzo Re Enzo – Piazza Nettuno Bologna
www.netmage.it
www.xing.it

OTOLAB@CINESTHESY 1.0 (EXTRACT) from PIXELS Transversaux on Vimeo.