Gazelle feat. Weez – Just Now – filmed by Simon Steuri
“In this modern day satire, while the west is giving money as aid to Africa countless of corrupt African rulers return to the source to exchange the same money for luxury goods.
During Art Basel 2009 Gazelle staged a public performance art piece that commented on [...]

Thursday evening saw the German premiere of POWEr by the Canadian duo Artificiel. The performance was held at KHW in cooperation with CTM.10. The audio-visual life show has been developed on commission for the 10th anniversary of Mutek festival in 2009. Assistance for users of pacemakers or people with epileptic tendencies is not suitable.
In the [...]

After Similarity is not Recommendation we headed to Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a.k.a. the pregnant oyster, for the opening reception of transmediale.10.
We first checked the installation in the main hall, looking like a space ship and made of the doors of an old bulding crafted during German Socialism in the city of Halle. [...]

On Tuesday February 2nd we attended the ¨Music Similarity is not Music Recommendation¨  at the .HBC by Spanish computer scientist and engineer Pedro Cano, who gave us an overview on the newest research and technologies in the field of music recommendation.  Interesting statistics based on a number of new online music services and social interaction [...]

Luckily we arrived to the last bit of the Open Broadcast lecture in the frame of Club Transmediale at .HBC. The presentation of the Swiss software with the aim to create user generated music programs, with a background of culture and science. Invited members share their music archives (songs/records and additional information).  A conventional radio [...]

Club Transmediale, Festival for Adventurous Music and related Visual Arts in Berlin opens its doors tonight at HAU The festivals 11th issue has the title OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media.
Tomorrow night will see the Grand Opening Night on the new locations around Alexander Platz. Check program after the jump.
Transmediale,  festival of art and digital [...]

Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson, the sister of THE KNIFE siblings.
Fever Ray makes incredibly emotional music that I can’t stop listening to.
Fever Ray „composes best in that state any new parent will recognise, awake but exhausted, where reality blurs into imagination and ideas flutter in and out.“
Fever Ray does not show her face in [...]

79 drawings of David Bowie are still not enough to describe his ever changing looks over the years, but still can give you a tiny hint. Sean T. Collins (comic writer), has been collecting Bowie´s portraits since 2007  and he had reached quite an impressive amount of artist. The list includes; Michel Gondry, Jeffrey Brown, [...]

…According to iconic London department store Selfridges. As we are now in 2010, the 1990’s were a whole 10 years ago and this, apparently, is long enough in the past to class them as vintage. ‘The Nineties Are Vintage’ is a concept store that Selfridges, in partnership with vintage shops Rellik and Beyond Retro have [...]