Volume VII gathers fifteen artists from around the world to bring youwhat we believe is our most exciting compilation yet. Unlike previous eorts, our winter compilation focuses almost entirely on solo projects and musical duos, primarily pulling from the digital realm of experimentation. Free from compromise, these artists are capable of embracing every last whim, and this spontaneity and energy is readily on display. We hope our readers enjoy these musicians as much as we do. We graciously thank all artists and labels who made this compilation possible. Hopefully all who find this venture worthwhile will look into supporting these artists in whichever way possible. It is our support which enables them to continue creating music they that, and we, love.

We’re at the YouTube Live event in San Francisco, which is bringing together a number of celebrities, YouTube favorites, and musicians to celebrate the past year in viral videos. The show is being held in front of a live audience of 3000 people, with millions of people tuning in worldwide to watch the first live-streamed event in YouTube’s history. You can watch the event below.

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After that, the two retreated to a booth where they cuddled and kissed./blockquote Is there anyone David Spade emhasn't/em banged? From a href="http://thesuperficial.com/2008/10/david_spade_texted_heather_loc.php"Heather Locklear/a to a href="I should be writing this down."Playboy Bunnies/a to now Nicollete Sheridan, the guy's penis has been there. Obviously, women find it attractive when a small man makes love to them then vanishes in a "POOF" of green clovers and red balloons. 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Apple Event from Last Wednesday.
SOURCE:http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/new...hp?story=21187



Summary:
Quote: Apple's senior director of marketing for iPhone, Bob Borchers, recently discussed the iPhone games scene with Gamasutra's Christian Nutt while flanked by representatives from three major publishing partners: EA Mobile, Gameloft, and ngmoco. Borchers didn't have much of substance to say about the iPhone itself, but Nutt managed to score some exciting details on upcoming games.
Highlights from Gama's interview:
The hotly anticipated Need For Speed Undercover is due out next month, as first reported on STP, not this month as some have speculated. Nutt says the game's graphics are "roughly on par with a PSP title."
Gameloft showed off Ferrari GT Revolution, a racing game that's built on an upgraded version of the Asphalt 4 engine. Ferrari's due out around the second week of December; we were able to go hands-on with the game earlier today, and will release our impressions shortly.
Gameloft's Carmen Pearson also mentioned that "Apple is our company's top customer right now," which is pretty remarkable when you consider that the publisher's been working with huge mobile carriers like Verizon for years.
ngmoco currently has 14 titles in development, with plans to bring five of them out before Christmas. HandCircus's Simon Oliver divulged more details about his creation Rolando, which was apparently inspired in part by Lemmings. Yeah, we see it. Full Story:
Quote: With the success of the iPhone (and the iPod Touch, which can also access the App Store), there has been a huge influx of games to the platform, which is currently the best-selling U.S. consumer mobile phone.

At a recent San Francisco briefing, Apple's senior director of marketing for iPhone, Bob Borchers, showcased a range of upcoming iPhone game titles, and laid out his company's vision of why the uptake has been so swift.

Though most people think of the iPhone as the single target platform, the iPod Touch also works with the vast majority of applications. Borcher noted: "If you're a hardware developer you've got two great platforms to develop for." On top of that, Apple has "worked very hard to develop [the SDK] in a very comprehensive way."

While Sega's Super Monkey Ball, one of the launch games for the App Store and a 500,000 unit seller, was an early indicator of what the platform is capable of -- Borcher described it as "a posterchild of what's possible" -- he believes that "things have gone so much further than that."

Of course, this is true in terms of choice as well, perhaps making it more difficult to sell that many in today's iPhone game market. There are over 8,000 applications available on the store in 20 different categories; according to Borcher, over 200 million applications were downloaded in the first 100 days of availability, from July 10, 2008.

Big Players, Big Games

To reinforce the strength of the platform, Borcher invited a handful of Apple-selected app developers to present their games and software, starting with Electronic Arts.

Patrick Gunn, director of marketing for EA Mobile, showcased Need for Speed Undercover, which will be available next month. Gunn says that EA has "taken full advantage of all of the unique elements... like touch, flick, accelerometer, and motion sensitivity" -- and graphically, the game appears to be roughly on par with a PSP title.

More revealingly, Gunn says, "The partnership that we are building with Apple in delivering these great apps and helping sell more hardware is equally as exciting" as selling games on iPhone to consumers.

He added: "From our perspective of being in the mobile industry for a long time, the UI that Apple has delivered is so easy and so compelling that it makes shopping for apps so compelling, that it has us excited."

Gameloft also showed a 3D driving game, Ferrari GT Evolution, which will also be available in December. PR manager Carmen Pearson gave out some interesting stats -- the publisher, part of Ubisoft, has over 18 titles on the app store currently, and notes that "Apple is actually Gameloft's top customer right now."

Neil Young, who recently founded iPhone-oriented startup ngmoco, commented, "We specifically created our company to focus on the iPhone and iPod Touch. We have 14 games in development right now."

Five ngmoco titles will be released between now and the Holiday season, though the company chose specifically to showcase Rolando, its platform/puzzle hybrid that calls to mind Sony's LocoRoco.

Time was also given to demonstrations from marketing firm AKQA, which is handling retail apps for Target and Gap, social networking tool Loopt, and Handmark, which is launching a version of the Zagat restaurant guide for iPhone. Handmark's Cassidy Lackey also commented that while its GTS World Racing game is available for a variety of smartphones, "our iPhone version generates 98% of our revenue."

In-Depth: Talking Rolando

After the presentation concluded, Gamasutra had a chance to speak to the presenters about their game titles and get some time to try out the applications.

Simon Oliver, founder of Hand Circus, the London-based developer of Rolando, explained that though he had never developed a game before, he has worked in new media and Flash development and had been toying with the idea of making games for some time.

He had also considered the XNA Community Games service as an outlet for his aspirations before settling on the "uncharted territory" of the iPhone.

When Super Monkey Ball and Spore Origins were first revealed, Oliver concluded that "it was very much an indication that [the platform] was viable" for games, and at that point he began to move forward with prototyping Rolando.

According to him, the title drew its initial inspiration from early-'80s British kids show Terrahawks, which features a group of rolling robots, as well as PC and console classic Lemmings. Oliver believes that games which are "heavily evolved" to make use of the iPhone's unique control properties "will fit that platform best."

His initial challenge was getting the Lemmings-esque gameplay to work, combined with the rolling characters he'd envisioned when inspired by Terrahawks.

Though Rolando started with a puzzle-oriented point and click design, like Lemmings, "it evolved into something more platformery. We had to throw away a lot of stuff," while prototyping, Oliver admits, "but it's led to a lot of fun things. It's been very iterative."

Development on the game began in June this year, and became a collaboration with Finnish illustrator Mikko Walamies, whose pop-art design (he's a T-shirt designer by trade) has lent the game its colorful LocoRoco-like look.

While Oliver originally intended to release the game independently, he hooked up with ngmoco after he released his first trailer. He notes that ngmoco's staff "has been a great creative sounding board" thanks to their experience in the industry, and has also facilitated music licensing -- the game features tunes by DJ and musician Mr. Scruff.

The Established Names of Gaming

EA Mobile's Patrick Gunn notes that the company's overall console expertise "certainly helps" in developing games for the iPhone, noting that the company intends to "bring as much advanced gaming to this platform as it can handle."

While noting that dealing with carriers on other mobile platforms is difficult, the ability to directly market to consumers on the iPhone is extremely attractive to EA. Despite the large selection, Gunn says, "We've had no trouble staying in the top 100 apps."

Sanette Chao, director of PR for Gameloft, feels that the iPhone opens up more opportunity for the carrier, noting, as her colleague Carmen Pearson did during their presentation ,that the company has been very aggressive in releasing games for the platform.

Though the company has not done much research into the audience spread yet, "we see it very competitive to DS and PSP", according to Chao. She also notes that while typical DS games clock in at 20 or 30MB (but can go as high as 256MB), iPhone apps top out at 100MB, allowing much more room than Nintendo's platform for the average game.

What makes the system a competitor -- its graphics abilities or its unique controls? "A little bit of both," Chao suggests, noting that she believes currently released games from Gameloft only tap into "10% of the capabilities" of the platform, and explaining that the company's second generation of titles will begin to launch in January.

Casual titles have been "really successful on iPod" for Gameloft, but Chao sees the iPhone as attracting more than just a casual audience -- the company seeks a "good balance" of titles while "targeting also the hardcore gamers." MORE ABOUT FERRARI GT EVOLUTION:
http://www.slidetoplay.com/story/fer...ution-hands-on

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/2008-11-20_230709.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="223" style="display:block;" /What a Lovely Name is a tag-based search engine for baby names. Rather than take the traditional approach of searching for a name and then reading what traits are associated with that name, with What a Lovely Name you select a handful of traits you value and the gender of the child and the site suggests names. The name suggestions are refreshingly multicultural, in testing various trait combinations I wasn't stuck with a laundry list of Anglo-Saxon names. Interestingly when I chose the two traits I find most endearing in my own daughter, elegance and strength, her name appeared in the list of suggestions. The tags aren't limited to just personality traits, although it's certainly the strongest draw of the site, you can also use cultural tags to see names by country and region or celebrity tags to see what names are popular amongst athletes, actors, musicians and so on. For another fascinating look into baby naming conventions, check out the a href="http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=ms=falsesw=fexact=false"NameVoyager/a to see the popularity of names over time and a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/parent-hacks/get-baby-name-ideas-from-the-baby-name-map-309761.php"The Baby Name Map/a to see the most currently popular names in your region./p div class="related"a href="http://www.whatalovelyname.com/"What a Lovely Name/a [via a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/tag-your-baby-pick-a-name/"TechCrunch/a]/div br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ba50ca714d01c98d67ec0c3eee634659p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ba50ca714d01c98d67ec0c3eee634659p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=ba50ca714d01c98d67ec0c3eee634659" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Y7OfZLVU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=pQYbM2jH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Nf8xlNxS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Nf8xlNxS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Nu1uF1zW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Nu1uF1zW" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/l8TPKTeWIqA" height="1" width="1"/

Veteran bassist Neil Murray (BLACK SABBATH, WHITESNAKE) has been added to the list of musicians who have contributed to Blizzards From Oz, an international, all-star compilation tribute CD (featuring musicians from Italy, United States, Scotland, Germany, and Canada) paying homage to OZZY OSBOURNE bassist/producer/lyricist of 14 years, Bob Daisley.

div class="image"a href="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/big_show.php?/avaxhome/c6/d1/0009d1c6.jpeg" target="_blank"img src="http://pixhost.ws/avaxhome/c6/d1/0009d1c6_medium.jpeg" id="external_img_643526"//a/divbr/ div class="center"bThe Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve (1946-1959)/bbr/ FLAC + CUE | 53 PG Booklet in PDF, Complete Artwork: 2.26 GB | 8 CDsbr/ i1999 | Verve | Jazz/i/divbr/ With his airy, vibratoless tone and sophisticated harmonic imagination, Lester Young (1909-59) was arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist after Coleman Hawkins. As the star in Count Basie's big band and Billie Holiday's favorite soloist, Young's breezy solos, along with his patented porkpie hat and unique hipster jargon, affected legions of musicians. This 8-CD compilation marks the 90th anniversary of Young's birth and contains all of the recordings he made for producer Norman Granz from 1946 to 1959, the last 13 years of Young's life. This collection aurally illustrates his supernatural ability to enliven the most familiar pop tunes and rise above his own pharmaceutically challenged physical state to create magic. The keys to Young's music making is his emphasis on knowing the lyrics to songs and on telling a story, delivering a melodic solo that communicates as it innovates.

By now you’ve all seen Peter’s post from yesterday that introduced the new PS3 ad campaign. I wanted to give you some details on the two PSP ad campaigns that also kicked off recently. One campaign focuses on the new PSP-3000 and the other on the big games that are available this holiday season (or coming soon after), including Resistance: Retribution, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Madden NFL ’09 and more favorites.

This campaign is one of my favorites because not only does it gives a nod to the awesome ‘POV’ TV spot that we aired when the PSP first launched back in March 2005, but it places the PSP within a colorful and diverse blur of urban activity. As someone who spends a lot of time in San Francisco and travels the country often, I see the way that people in different cities use their PSPs and I think we’ve captured that in a fun and interesting way. The TV spots are fast-moving, 15-second snapshots of the PSP within several large cities, with local or regional musicians contributing their tracks to the spots. With the PSP, everywhere really does get better. Here are three of the spots, including a sneak peak into the TV spot for Chicago, which will start airing next week.

Category: Music
Released: Nov 21, 2008
Price: $9.99

Description:
Sick of not having anyone to jam or practice with on popular Jazz Standards? Sick of those play-a-long CDs that you have to pan to the left or right? Wish you had more control to cut the bass OR drums OR piano OR lead? Jam will change the way you practice your music. Play-a-long with real musicians - controlling how loud each musician is, or whether they are playing at all. Jam: Volume 1 contains 5 Jazz standard, played by professional musicians. -Autumn Leaves -Bye Bye Blackbird -Watermelon Man -Blue Bossa -Satin Doll There are four different tracks. If you don't want the piano, simply turn it off. If you only want the drums, no problem! If the lead is too loud, you can turn it down or off without affecting the volume of the other instruments. You can change everything live, while the track plays, without ever worrying about them staying in sync! These are REAL recorded musicians. No computer-generated backings which don't help your feel. It is so useful if you are a musician but even non-musicians can enjoy live mixing jazz tracks. Now you can practice Jamming without the band! NOTE: This Application contains FIVE jazz standards. There are other standards available as separate applications on the App Store. Please email your future song requests to support@smudgeapps.com

Website: http://www.smudgeapps.com
Support Website: http://www.smudgeapps.com

Note: The description above is the official one supplied by the application developer and does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of this site or its staff.


Get it on iTunes: Jam: Vol. 1

Punk musician Travis Barker on Friday sued companies linked to a plane that crashed in South Carolina, injuring him and killing two friends

Tomorrow, YouTube will be showcasing its first live stream as it broadcasts its YouTube Live celebration, which will bring together a host of celebrities, musicians, and notable YouTubers for a massive event in San Francisco. The show will be streamed on YouTube beginning at 5 PM PST, and will include performances from Katy Perry, will.i.am, Joe Satriani, the Chocolate Rain guy (Tay Zonday), and a number of other musicians. I’m personally looking forward to a special appearance from the Mythbusters team.

YouTube hasn’t yet made any announcements regarding a livestreaming service for regular users (which would pit it directly against services like Ustream) but it won’t be surprising if we hear from them tomorrow about the company’s upcoming plans. We first heard about possible streaming functionality back in January, and later confirmed that it would be coming some time this year.

YouTube’s Chris Di Cesare says that the event may be the first of a series of annual live-streamed get-togethers celebrating the year in viral videos. We’ll have another post tomorrow with some of the highlights.

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By now you’ve all seen Peter’s post from yesterday that introduced the new PS3 ad campaign. I wanted to give you some details on the two PSP ad campaigns that also kicked off recently. One campaign focuses on the new PSP-3000 and the other on the big games that are available this holiday season (or coming soon after), including Resistance: Retribution, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Madden NFL ’09 and more favorites.
This campaign is one of my favorites because not only does it gives a nod to the awesome ‘POV’ TV spot that we aired when the PSP first launched back in March 2005, but it places the PSP within a colorful and diverse blur of urban activity. As someone who spends a lot of time in San Francisco and travels the country often, I see the way that people in different cities use their PSPs and I think we’ve captured that in a fun and interesting way. The TV spots are fast-moving, 15-second snapshots of the PSP within several large cities, with local or regional musicians contributing their tracks to the spots. With the PSP, everywhere really does get better. Here are three of the spots, including a sneak peak into the TV spot for Chicago, which will start airing next week.

Taking the urban theme even further, we were able to work with local artists in 11 different cities and have them design unique PSP skins. It’s an awesome way of working with local talent to discover the ways that they love their cities and communities and how they use their PSP. Starting next week, be sure to visit the PSP module on PlayStation.com to check the PSP skins out. Of course I’m inclined to love the San Francisco skin, but think that they all offer unique flavors. Would love to hear which one you like best in the comments section.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the TV spots which are airing now, as well as the print, online and transit ads. For those of you lucky enough to live in or visit one of the five cities that we’ve focused on, you’ll see PSP ads all over buses, subways and trains.
Let us know what you think, and have a great weekend!


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a href="http://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-to-sue-vuze-limewire-and-sourceforge-081114/" target="_blank"Torrentfreak reported yesterday/a that the French music industry has sued a href="http://slsknet.org" target="_blank"Soulseek/a after also taking Vuze, Limewire, the a href="http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-884.html"long-defunct Morpheus /aand the open source hosting site Sourceforge to court. Soulseek has been a well-known secret amongst music sharing enthusiasts for a long time. The system initially just focused on electronic music, but now serves many non-mainstream niches.br / br / I've been following Soulseek for a long time and in fact still have physical copies of the first two Soulseek Records releases in my CD shelf. I also did an early interview with Soulseek founder Nir Arbel in 2002, which at the time got published by the German electronic music magazine a href="http://www.de-bug.de" target="_blank"De:Bug/a. Obviously a lot of things have changed since then, but I think at least parts of the interview are still relevant, which is why I decided to re-publish it on P2P Blog in light of the lawsuit, minus a few parts that aren't that interesting to this adience or don't make sense at all anymore six years later.br / br / One should note that I wasn't able to find the original transcript of the interview on such a short notice, which I believe was done through the Soulseek chat. Fortunately someone decided to re-translate it to English after De:Bug published it in German. There is a chance that the back and forth between the two langages introduced a few inaccuracies, but I think it's worth reading nonetheless - especially when t comes to the last question. I tried to get back in touch with Nir today to get an update, but haven't heard anyhihng back. I'll publish an update as soon as I do.br / br / So here we go:br / br / DEBUG: With which filesharing networks did you as a user feel more comfortable?br / br / NIR: I love the audiogalaxy design very much. Features like the artist-orientated clubs or the possibilty to write comments on tracks. That s extremely community-orientated. KaZaa is some technological wonder, but the community-features are even worse then in Napster.br / br / (...)br / br / DEBUG: And what do musicians and record companies say about soulseek?br / br / NIR: Most of them either don t know about soulseek or they don t care. Up to today none of them took a position. Once we got a polite letter from Warp with the request to filter out some special tracks, but that was all.br / br / DEBUG: What did you answer them?br / br / NIR: I explained to them, it wouldn t be technivally possible, cause the server doesn t care about search requests. And that we re a very small and very specialized filesharing community. That our case would be more to inform us mutual about new music, then to steal music, we otherwise would buy. These days i had this suspicion that this might not be true. So i asked the people within our messageboard in a poll. It seems that pretty everyone of us is buying at least as much music as before soulseek. A small minority is buying less. That confirmed me that we help the genre. I hope that labels for electronic music and their musicians can acknowledge that.br / br / (...)br / br / De:Bug: Can you tell us something about the architecture of Soulseek?br / br / Nir: Sure, but I can t promise, that it will be the same when this interview will be published. While working for Napster, I have learned a lot about the pros and cons of systems with centralized servers. When decentralized networks got suitable for everyday life, I looked at them in order to make Soulseek scalable. Soulseek is now a hybrid of centralized and decentralized networking. That means that it can be shut down as easily as Napster. But a Soulseek server is scaling much better than a Napster server. Besides, we have features that are only possible in a centralized system, e.g. the chat rooms and the system of recommendations.br / br / br / De:bug: How can someone picture the division of work between central server and decentralized network?br / br / Nir: Soulseek works with two different, nearly completely disjoint networks. The centralized one, in which every user is connected to the server, and the decentralized one, in which the server operates as a top node, but almost every user is connected to another. This decentralized network inherits the inquiries und looks more like KazaA than Gnutella.br / br / (...)br / br / De:Bug: What are you going to do about the future of Soulseek?br / br / Nir: Absolutely nothing. I m enjoying it as a platform for learning and experimenting. 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RE:Generations, a new posthumous release from Nat King Cole, will feature collaborations with such hip-hop acts as Cee-Lo, The Roots, will.i.am, Cut Chemist, Just Blaze, Nas, and TV On The Radio. Says daughter Carole Cole, “With RE:Generations, we want to musically and visually bridge the so-called generation gap and hopefully create mutual admiration and respect between teens, parents and grands of every culture.” [StreetCred.com]

The Roots’ tour bus crashed en route to Paris on Wednesday, November 19. The musicians suffered only minor injuries, however, and ?uestlove took to Twitter.com several hours after the accident to assure his fans that “dog we are soooo alive right now.” [PitchforkMedia.com]

This year’s winner of the Polaris Prize, Caribou’s Dan Snaith, will donate the bulk of his money to charity. Ecojustice and the Stephen Lewis Foundation will receive the donations, while Snaith plans to use the remaining funds to help finance his next album. [Exclaim.ca]

Jody Reynolds, the rockabilly songwriter behind “Endless Sleep,” died this month at the age of 75. With its dramatic performance and unconventional subject matter, “Endless Sleep” helped usher in a wave of tragic teen pop songs. [LAWeekly.com]

Coupons for a free 20-ounce bottle of Dr. Pepper — which the beverage company promised to provide if Chinese Democracy received a 2008 release date — will be available on Sunday, November 23rd, via Dr. Pepper’s web site. Although coupons will only be available for 24 hours, they will be honored at stores until the end of February. [Variety.com]

Dee Snider (TWISTED SISTER), Bruce Kulick (KISS) and Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE, DIO) are among the musicians who will take part in the first Monster Circus performance in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Masquerade Showroom at the Rio Suite Hotel Casino on December 9.

Hi all!!
I'm a musician and need to install Mac OSX Leopard on my PC in order to run Logic Pro.
Do you think my hardware configuration will work with leo4all? Will I be able to run Vista/XP in dual boot with OSX?

Intel P4 2.4
2.5Gb RAM
Motherboard Asus P4S8X
Sapphire Radeon X1650 PRO 512
250+160 Gb Parallel ATA HDDs

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[b]Furthernoise issue November 2008.[/b]br / br / Welcome to the November issue of Furthernoise. In what has been a truly momentous year for all sorts of reasons, we are proud to finish it off with a brand new issue stacked to the gunwales with new releases and an audio player restocked with new tunes to take you through into the new year. Furthernoise is the sister site of www.furtherfield.orgbr / br / Furthernoise issue November 2008br / http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=71br / br / "The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - Feature Article by Frank Rothkamm" (feature) Primary Cinema remains cinema, it is not painting or staged photography. It is comprehended as a sequence of images with sound which ultimately constructs its meaning. It de-emphasizes change and reduces bright-ness and distributes events on a galactic scale, but despite its apparent emptiness it remains true cinema as the marriage of projected images and sound in space and time.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=273br / feature by Frank Rothkammbr / br / "The Gyres, Between Nowhere and Goodbye, The End of Everything" (feature)br / Cathal Rodgers moonlights from his grubby guitarings with Irish doom-mongers Wreck Of The Hesperus as Wereju. Moonlight is apposite in application to Wereju, less evil more eerie twin, drawing out long rays of wild half-lit nightshade shimmer over grey evacuated fields, a sound described by the artist as "ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet".br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=261br / feature by Alan Lockettbr / br / "A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros) - Claudio Parodi" (review) The second in an ongoing series of conceptual works by Claudio Parodi sourcing and manipulating music from Tiziano Milano's Suoni CD (2005), not so much to remix but as staple material for processing in the studio. This time as with the last, the album is dedicated to a well known sound artist, and Pauline Oliveros is the chosen one on this occasion.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=272br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Bedside Stories - Taub" (review)br / Bedside Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. It is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. It will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=271br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Document 2 - Sevenhourgerm" (review)br / Document 2 by Sevenhourgerm aka Matthew Atkins is a CDR including nine experimental tracks released on the Minimal Resource Manipulation label. Found sounds and noise are crafted into varying degrees of coherency, with rhythm and melody flirting at the edge of perception.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=276br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Electronic Drifting: The Music of Richard Lainhart" (review)br / Many contemporary musicians take their inspiration from natural processes. Richard Lainhart's musical models come from clouds, flames and waves, whose nebulous and ever shifting formations are the catalyst for his beautiful electronic works.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=262br / review by Caleb Deupreebr / br / "Imperfect Silence - Various" (review)br / Imperfect Silence is a radical collaboration between artists working together purely online. Global boundaries and cultural differences make way for free jazz and diverse sonic improvisation, as Phil Hargreaves edits together the material to provide a personal narrative of Cadavre Esquis.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=275br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Italian Noise Label Dokura Serves up 3 Mini Cdrs" (review)br / Dokura is an Italian noise label that releases limited edition tapes, 3 inch CDRs and the occasional vinyl lp from a variety of international artists. With 10 releases to date, the little label seems to be aiming at noise of the instrumental variety swinging closer to the lo-fi dark ambient drone.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=269br / review by Derek Mortonbr / br / "Lost Hilde - Stray Ghost" (review)br / The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music TV. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through glitched and looped synthetic sounds.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=270br / review by Max Schaeferbr / br / "Sympathetic Vibration - Marcus Jones" (review)br / Often, recordings exist as complete works in themselves, or as documents or mementos of a live performance. Sympathetic Vibration is one of a rapidly expanding body of works that do not fit easily into either category, blurring the boundaries between recorded materials and live event. Stacey Sewell chats to its creator, phonographer and sound designer Markus Jones.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=274br / review by Stacey Sewellbr / br / Roger Millsbr / Editor, Furthernoiseimg src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/460844550" height="1" width="1"/

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