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Network Music Festival

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Exploring innovative digital music, art and research which investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice, Network Music Festival presents a weekend of cutting edge and hi-tech musical performances, installations, workshops and talks.... READ MORE...
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Alexandra Bachzetsis, Claire Hooper. Bonner Kunstverein

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Contemporary pop culture as expressed for example in R&B occupies both Alexandra Bachzetsis and Claire Hooper in their works. While Alexandra Bachzetsis deconstructs in a rather analytical manner, Claire Hooper employs its inherent seductive aspects for her own purposes. The artists explore the increasing significance given by social media to the staging of “personality” and “life.”... READ MORE...
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Occupied Sound. An eye on experimental music scene in the Arab world

Asma Ghanem
As part of my research for the ongoing Shams Asma project, and to find out more about the experimental music scene in the Arab world, I spoke with six prominent experimental musicians and sound artists from around the Levant and neighboring Egypt: Sary Moussa (a.k.a Radio KVM; Lebanon), Jad Atoui (Lebanon), Donia Jarrar (Palestine), Stormtap (Palestine), and Ismail Seleit and Mohamad Ali Talybab of Elmanzouma (Egypt).... READ MORE...
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Artefact Festival 2014

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Artefact is STUK's (media art center in Leuven, Belgium - http://www.stuk.be/) annual arts festival, focusing on (visual) culture, current affairs and scientific challenges. The programme consists of an extensive thematical exhibition with international artists, and lectures and performances linked to the central theme - both at STUK and in the centre of Leuven. Next to that, STUK and Het Depot present an ingenious music line-up during a three-day music festival.... READ MORE...
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Towards a Catalogue of Artists’ Records: Records by Artists (1960-1990)

Elena Biserna
In 1977, Germano Celant published the volume OffMedia, Nuove Tecniche Artistiche: video disco libro. In this text, recognising the pervasiveness of the record in the contemporary artistic practice, Celant wrote: “In the art of the 1960s the record took its place alongside communications media such as video, the telegram, the photograph, the book and the film […] In line with the reductive theories of the period the record contributes to the isolation of one component of art work, sound, while on the other hand it enriches the array of linguistic tools available for the task of exploding the specifically visual and pushing back the limits of the art process"[1].... READ MORE...
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Punch Drunk and Livity Sound. The Tom Ford aka Peverlist’s creatures

Claudia Galal
The mainstream celebrities from Bristol are Massive Attack, Tricky and Bansky, but the town on the River Avon can offer a wider range of resources, often hidden in the undergorund, and it features the heart of a peculiar music scene. Among the key players of this animation there is Tom Ford aka Peverelist, dj and producer, but also essential entertainer of the so-called Bristol Sound through his labels Punch Drunk and Livity Sound.... READ MORE...
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A look at the present day. Laurie Anderson’s “Big Science”, thirty years later

Simone Broglia
Thirty years ago, well, thirty-one, to be more precise; “Big Science”, Laurie Anderson’s debut album, was published. If you want to talk in clichés, what doesn’t do justice to anybody, we could say that the American artist doesn’t need to be introduced: anyway, Lou Reed’s girlfriend, key player in various artistic scenes of the last decades, Laurie Anderson is a complex and an iconic personality, i.e., a child of the ‘80s.... READ MORE...
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