1st Global Conference: Videogame Cultures and the Future of Interactive Entertainment

Friday 10th July - Sunday 12th July 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Papers
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims
to examine, explore and critically engage with the
issues and implications created by the
mass use of computers and videogames for human
entertainment and focus on the impact of
innovative videogame titles and interfaces for
human communication and ludic culture. In
particular the conference will encourage equally
theoretical and practical debates which surround
the cultural contexts within which videogames
flourish.

Papers, presentations, workshops and reports are
invited on any of the
following themes:

1. Videogames and Gaming
Theories and Concepts of Gaming. Identifying Key
Features and Issues.

2. Videogame Cultures
Emerging Practices in Online and Offline Gaming.
The changing Role of the Player.
Social Dimension of Online Gaming and Presence in
Virtual Worlds.
Videogame Modifications, Modders and their
Subcultures. Avatars and Identity.

3. Videogame Technologies and the Future of
Interactive Entertainment
The Spatiology of Videogames and Virtual Worlds.
Interaction, Interactivity and Collaboration in
Videogames. The Role of Innovative Interfaces.
Hard Core and Casual Gaming.

4. The History of Virtual Worlds and their Cultures
The Evolution of Gaming Communities. The Cult
Videogames and Interfaces of the Past. The
Pioneers of Virtual Worlds. The lost Genres.

5. The Relations between Cinema and Videogames
Crossmedia and Transmedia Approach to Videogames.
Cutscene Production. Machinimation. Interactive
Storytelling.

6. Art and Experimental Games
The Aesthetic Aspects of Videogames. Performative
Use of Videogames. Mixed Reality Games. Net-Art.

7. Serious Games and Educational Use of 3-D
Videogames and Virtual Worlds
Serious Games and Social Impact Simulations.
Documentary Videogames. Edutainment. Case Studies
on Educational Use of Videogames. Political
Issues. Censorship.

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
6th February 2009. If your paper is accepted for
presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft
paper should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs

Daniel Riha
Charles University
Prague,
Czech Republic
E-Mail: daniel.riha@ff.cuni.cz

Rob Fisher
Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: gc@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues'
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and
challenging. All papers accepted for and presented
at the conference will be published in an ISBN
eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into
20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed
dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/Cyber/gc/gc.html

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/Cyber/gc/gc1/cfp.html

4th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction

Monday 6th July - Wednesday 8th July 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
project aims to explore what it is to be human and
the nature of human community in cyberculture,
cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the
project will explore the possibilities offered by
these contexts for creative thinking about persons
and the challenges posed to the nature and future
of national, international, and global communities.

Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on
issues related to any of the following themes:

* the relationship between cyberculture,
cyberspace, science fiction
* cyberculture, cyberpunk and the near
future: utopias vs. dystopias
* science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium
for exploring the nature of persons
* humans and cyborgs; the synergy of humans
and technology; changing views of the body
* human and post-human concepts in cyber arts
and cinema
* bodies in cyberculture; from apes to
androids - electronic evolution; biotechnical
advances and the impact of life, death, and
social existence; the impact on individuality
* gender and cyberspace: new feminisms, new
masculinities
* electronic persons, community and identity;
cyberspace, cybercommunities, virtual worlds
* digital culture and interactive storytelling
* old messages, new medium: cyberspace and
mass communication
* nature, enhancing nature, and artificial
intelligence; artificial life, life and
information systems, networked living
* human and post-human politics; cyborg
citizenship and rights; influence of political
technologies
* cyberpolitics, cyberdemocracy, cyberterror;
old conflicts, new spaces: elections, protest and
war in cyberspace; nationality and nationalism in
cyberculture; the state and cyberspace: repression
vs. resistance
* cybercultures: the transnational and the local
* boundaries, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture
* religion and spirituality in cyberculture,
science fiction and cyberpunk
* technology vs. the natural? cyberculture
and the green movement

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
6th February 2009. If your paper is accepted for
presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft
paper should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did
not receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs
Dr Daniel Riha
Charles University
Prague,
Czech Republic
E-mail: daniel.riha@ff.cuni.cz

Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
E-mail: visions4@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'
series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims
to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore
various discussions which are innovative and
challenging. All papers accepted for and presented
at the conference will be published in an ISBN
eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go
forward for development into 20-25 page chapters
for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard
copy volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/vhccsf.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/v4/cfp.html

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No sábado, 6 de Dezembro, houve meio programa em meia estereofonia:



Enbilulugugal/Kaoru Abe/Dj Scotch Egg/Venetian Snares/Deathstorm/Pierre Henry/Tibet: Chants Sacrées/

frosty cold november

A playlist de hoje:

Kuupuu - "Aava" (Kulta Sulka) 2006
Kuupuu - "Myrsky Laulu" (Kulta Sulka) 2006
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen - "Sigwx" (Storm) 2006
Paivasande - "Sihitaikina" (Maan Matoset - compil.) 2005
Erkki Kurenniemi - "On-Off" (Äänityksiä / Recordings 1963-1973) 2002
Paavoharju - "Sumuvirsi" (Laulu Laakson Kukista) 2008
Sunburned Hand of the Man - "The Twin Gates"+"Every Direction" (No Magic Man) 2004
Pierre Henry - "Jugement" (Le Livre des Morts Egyptien) 1986-88 (1994)
Sunburned Hand of the Man - "Camel backwards" (Rare Wood) 2004
Brenda Lee - "I'm sorry" 1960
Inland Empire - "Intro" (Inland Empire OST) 2006
Sunburned Hand of the Man - "Elix it" (Magnetic Drugs) 2003

NEKHT, THE CAPTAIN OF SOLDIERS, THE ROYAL SCRIBE, SINGETH A HYMN OF PRAISE TO RA, and saith:- Homage to thee, O thou glorious Being, thou who art dowered [with all sovereignty]. O Tem-Heru-Khuti (Tem- Harmakhis), when thou risest in the horizon of heaven a cry of joy goeth forth to thee from all people. O thou beautiful Being, thou dost renew thyself in thy season in the form of the Disk, within thy mother Hathor. Therefore in every place every heart swelleth with joy at thy rising for ever. The regions of the South and the North come to thee with homage, and send forth acclamations at thy rising on the horizon of heaven, and thou illuminest the Two Lands with rays of turquoise-[coloured] light. O Ra, who art Heru-Khuti, the divine man-child, the heir of eternity, self-begotten and self-born, king of the earth, prince of the Tuat (the Other World), governor of Aukert, thou didst come from the Water-god, thou didst spring from the Sky-god Nu, who doth cherish thee and order thy members. O thou god of life, thou lord of love, all men live when thou shinest; thou art crowned king of the gods. The goddess Nut embraceth thee, and the goddess Mut enfoldeth thee at all seasons. Those who are in thy following sing unto thee with joy, and they bow down their foreheads to the earth when they meet thee, the lord of heaven, the lord of the earth, the King of Truth, the lord of eternity, the prince of everlastingness, thou sovereign of all the gods, thou god of life, thou creator of eternity, thou maker of heaven wherin thou art firmly stablished.

[APPENDIX (From the Papyrus of Nekhtu-Amen, ed. Naville, I, 5)]

bukkake sunrise

A playlist de 22 de Novembro:

Master Musicians of Bukkake - "Bukkake Sunrise" (The Invisible Sign of The Invisible Order) 2004
Master Musicians of Bukkake - "Yellow Bile/Desperate Ground" (The Invisible Sign of The Invisible Order) 2004
Yahowa 13 - "Ho" (Penetration) 1974
Pocahaunted - "Divine Flesh" (Peyote Road) 2008
Pramod Kumar - "Raga Purya Kalyan" (Indian Raga Route) 70's
Kawabata Makoto - "Osculation (remix version)" (I'm in Your Inner Most) 2002
Terry Riley - "A Rainbow in Curved Air" (A Rainbow in Curved Air) 1971
Children of One - "Spheres" (Children of One) 1969
Terry Riley - "Mescaline Mix" (Music for the Gift) 1960-63
Salvador Dali - "L'Apothèose du Dollar" (Pub pour le CCF) 1971
Paavoharju - "Pimeänkarkelo" (Laulu Laakson Kukista) 2008

At the beginning the Creator existed.
Everyone knows about him.
And White Painted Woman also existed.

(1.2)
Afterwards Child of the Water was born.
Killer of Enemies also was born.

(1.3)
So there were four existing at the very beginning [of time].

(1.4)
And Child of the Water was the child of White Painted Woman.
And Killer of Enemies was one of the evil people.

(1.5)
He who is called Giant also existed.
He did not permit people to live.
White Painted Woman's children were being born.
While White Painted Woman's children were still small,he who is called Giant ate them.

[The Child of Water, excerpt]

droning on

playlist de 15 de Novembro:

Terry Riley; Yoshi Wada; La Monte Young; Elvis, John Lennon & Princess Diana; Taj Mahal Travellers; Nasser Rastegar; Ravi Shankar; Roots of Gamelan; Richard Pinhas + Merzbow; V. A. Occult Explosion; Sopwith Camel; Wendy Carlos

sonderagebot!

Tecnosterona de 8 de Novembro de 2008

Foi assim com este formato e conteúdo tal e qual por esta ordem:
W.S. Burroughs (com Ian Sommerville) - Silver Smoke of Dreams (Break Through in Grey Room), Spoke - Live Nevers 2/6/1996 (Staalplaat's Sonderagebot), David Behrman (com Gordon Mumma) - Players wiyh Circuits (The Wire 20 Years 1982-2002 Audio Issue)SoiSong - Soijin Ni Hai (SoiSong), Willard Cantelon - LSD, Battle for the Mind, Deutsch Nepal - Bausteine Der Zukunft (Staalplaat's Sonderagebot), Aksak Maboul - Palmiers en Pots: a. Trio; b. Tango (Un Peu de L'Áme des Bandits), M. Giacometti e Fernando Lopes-Graça - Deus te Salve (Portuguese Folk Music, Trás-Os-Montes), Enrico Caruso - Una Furtiva Lagrima (The Complete Caruso), Hrvatsky - Routine Exercise (Oiseaux), DJ Pica Pica Pica - Water Drums (Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999), Chantal Goya - A la Sortie de ma Classe (Les Annés 60), DJ Pica Pica Pica - Beats for...Banaspati + Burrega Theme (Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999), People Like Us- Ursula Fährt Sky (Staalplaat's Sonderagebot) , Sachiko M - 28082200 (Japanese Avant Garde), RJ Valeo - Monday Night (The Wire Tapper 20), Muslimgauze - Kaliskinazure (Staaplaat's Sonderagebot), Magical Power Mako - Cha Cha (Magical Power), Ground Zero - Live 1992 -(Japanese Avant Garde), DJ Pica Pica Pica - Sound Effects for Club's and DJ's Vol. 2 (Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999)

radio of eternal music

Playlist, 1 de Novembro de 2008

Droning along with... Earth "Seven Angels", "Like Gold And Faceted" (Earth 2 Special Low Frequency Version), Yoshi Wada "Singing", "Bagpipe" (Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile), "Off The Wall I", "Off The Wall II", "Die Konsonanten Pfeifen" (Off The Wall), Gerald Heard "Survival, Growth And Rebirth" (Explorations Vol. 2), Punck "Piallassa" (Piallassa, Red Desert Chronicles)

le roi est mort! vive le roi!

Tecnosterona 25 de Outubro de 2008:

Keith Fullerton Whitman - "Stereo Music for Farfisa Compact Duo Deluxe, Drum Kit" (Multiples) 2005
Pierre Henry - "Machines + Vitesse" (Futuristie) 1975
Stream Angel - "The return of the fair gardener" (The return of the fair gardener) ?
Ovo - "Anime morte" (Miastenia)2006
Lokonon Andre & Les Volcans - "Mi Kple Dogbekpo" (African Scream Contest - Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s) 70's
Dj Speedranch - "Thanksgiving Day (Creed Are Twats And Nickelback Look Like Mike Bolton Mix)" (PCP Torpedo / ANbRX) 2006
Venetian Snares - "Eurocore MVP" (Detrimentalist) 2008
Dj Scotch Egg - "Scotch Jazz festuring Andershana on guitar" (Drumized) 2008
Regrelh - " 'Clariasme' o la naissança d'un son" (La Douceur d'un Son Nouvel) 1979
Regrelh - "Esmai" (La Douceur d'un Son Nouvel) 1979
Current 93 & Andrew Liles - "Ach Golgotha" (Nature Revealed) 2008
8 Bit Mayhem - "I am the Black Wizzards (Emperor)" (De Mysteriis Dom Supernes) Certamente, muito recente!

E assim demos início a mais uma temporada do programa que é uma missa helicoidal para campos magnéticos; um projecto reticular animado pela dinâmica vectorial e quiástica electronicamente induzida das dobras heterogéneas que o decompõem, abrindo-se a uma partenogénese rítmica e a uma cristalização líquida, obviamente harmónica, de consonância extravagante ou excêntrica; uma autopoiése nano-melódica e cromática de cariz eroto-religioso e micropolítico digital, inspirada pela crítica esquizo-analítica do bypass e das experimentações electroacústicas.

Z=z^2+c

Por entre a complexidade fractal das listas rabiscadas durante os últimos programas foi possível discernir as seguintes palavras:

Edward Artemiev Nurse With Wound 3 Eggs Enrico Caruso Morton Subotnick Cosey Fanni Tutti Andrew Liles & Jean-Herve Peron William Lawes Danny Ben-Israel Grace Slick & The Great Society COH Charles Manson Kan Mikami Zx Spectrum Orchestra Glenn Gould SoiSong Hanatarash Leading Soloists of Japan Autechre Venetian Snares The Monastery of Gyoto Alva Noto Lee Harvey Oswald Byetone Pierre Henry Francis Dhomont Coil Luigi Russolo Olivier Messiaen White Boredoms/Unkle

miracle surface noise

Playlist do 30.08.2008:

Enrico Caruso - "Una furtiva lagrima" (Collected works of Caruso) 1904
Pierre Henry - "Spirale" (Musique sans titre) 1955
Ruth White - "The Clock" (Flowers of Evil) 1969
Oskar Sala - "Brenner's House" (Sound Effects from "The Birds") 1963
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen - "No man's land" (Storm) 2006
Enrico Caruso - "Mi par d'udir ancora" (Collected works of Caruso) ?
Pierre Henry - "sans titre 3" (Maléfices) 1962
Ruth White - "Owls" (Flowers of Evil) 1969
Elliot Caplan - side one (Passages from Finnegan's Wake) 1967
Dr. Roger S. Payne - "Rights: deep breathing" (Deep voices: the second whale) 1977
G. Bizet - "Toreador song, from 'Carmen'" (Wound-up Opera played by rare antique music boxes) ?
Andrew Liles - "Reis, remixed by Freiband" (Mind Da Gap volume 63) 2006
Crispin Hellion Glover - "selected readings from oak mot, part II" (The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be) 1989

search the links

kfc core

Our heartfelt homage to KFC core:

Lorde Mexilhão Corredor - "Tom Annie DJ's" (one sided 10") 2005 [Spunk A Nancy related project]
Bell Telephone Labs - Computer Speech (1963)
DJ Scotch Egg - WWWWW (Drumized) 2008
IBM 7090 - computer generated music (Music from Mathematics) 1962
DJ Scotch Egg - Tetris Wonderland (KFC Core) 2005
Célomalabit - La mort, La destruction (?) 200?
Otto von Schirach - Fractal Nut Vinigerette (Global Speaker Fisting) 2004
? - When You come to the end of a Lollipop (?) 1961 Epic
Otto von Schirach - Dance like a Hoe (Oozing Bass Spasms) July 2008 (Brand new!!)
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Orchestra (KFC Core)
Kid 606 - Total recovery is possible (Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You) 2003
Kentucky Fried Chicken Training - Talk Chicken (Kentucky Fried CD) 1990's?
Otto von Schirach - Spine serpents of sperm islands (Oozing Bass Spasms) 2008
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Chicken (KFC Core) 2005
Deathstorm - I (We are deathstorm) 2008
Venetian Snares - Eurocore MVP (Detrimentalist) 2008
Bong-Ra - Killah One (Clash001, 7") 2002
Kid 606 - Who Wah Killed Sound (Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You) 2003
Deathstorm - IX (We are Deathstorm) 2008
DJ Scotch Egg - Countdown 1, 2, 3 (Drumized) 2008

all you need is love

Everybody is looking for KRSNA.

Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

KRSNA is GOD, the Source of all that exists,the Cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

As God is unlimited, HE has many Names.

Allah-Buddha-Jehova-Rama:

All are Krsna, all are ONE.

By serving GOD through each thought, word, and

DEED, and by chanting of HIS Holy Names,

the devotees quickly develops God-consciousness.

by chanting

Hare Krsna, Hare KrsnaKrsna Krsna, Hare HareHare Rama, Hare RamaRama Rama, Hare Hare

one inevitably arrives as KRSNA Consciousness.

(The proof of the pudding is in the eating!)

George Harrison

Tecnosterona, 5 de Julho de 2008

François Bayle - "Jeîta ou Murmure des Eaux" (Jeîta)

Jorge Reyes - "Tonami (The Singer)" (Music For Forgotten Spirits)

Buttons The Chimp - "Windowkeek" (Coil vs. Venetian Snares)

Jorge Reyes - "Obsidian Butterfly" (Music For Forgotten Spirits) + François Bayle - "Jeîta ou Murmure des Eaux" (Jeîta) + Fluorescent Grey - "Sublimit VS Rsdio (Tri Repetae ++)" (Old VS New AE Mashups - Mixes Series Pt. 1)

Baba Yaga - "Side A" (Collage) + Buttons The Chimp - "Lsdbender" (Coil vs. Venetian Snares) + Fluorescent Grey - "The Trees VS Leterel (Tri Repetae)" (Old VS New AE Mashups - Mixes Series Pt. 1)

Nurse With Wound - "The Funktion Of The Hairy Egg" (Huffin' Rag Blues)

George Harrison - "Sri Guruvastakam George Harrison Chant and Be Happy!" (Indian Devotional Songs)

Melmoth - "Le Voyage d'Été" (La Devanture des Ivresses)

Juaneco y su Combo - "Mi Robaron Mi Runa Mula" ("The Roots of Chicha - Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru)

Masonna - "Mad Onna Part 1" (Noskl in Ana)

Samsara-davanala-lidha-loka-

Tranaya karunya-ghanaghanatvam

Praptasya kalyana-gunarnavasya

Vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Mahaprabhoh kirtana-nrtya-gita-

Vaditramadyan-manaso rasena

Romanca-kampasrutarangabhajo

Vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Sri-radhika-madhavayor apara-

Madhurya-lila-guna-rupa-namnam

Pratiksana-svadana-lolupasya

Vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado

Yasyaprasadanna-gatih kuto 'pi

Dhyayam stuvams tasya yasas tri-sandhyam

Vande guroh sri-caranaravindam

apocalyptic candy

"Παιδία, ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστί, καὶ καθὼς ἠκούσατε ὅτι ὁ ἀντίχριστος ἔρχεται, καὶ νῦν ἀντίχριστοι πολλοὶ γεγόνασιν· ὅθεν γινώσκομεν ὅτι ἐσχάτη ὥρα ἐστίν."
(Καθολική Επιστολή Ιωάννου Α', Κεφάλαια 2:18)




[ Deuttung der czwo grewlichen Figuren, Bapstesels czu Rom und Munchkalbs czu Freyerbeg ijnn Meysszen funden, 1523, Martin Luther & Philip Melanchton]


Playlist de 7 de Junho de 2008:

Current 93 (Andrew Liles remix) - "Saint Peter's Keys All Bloody" (Dogs Blood Ascending) 2008
Current 93 - "Suddenly the Living are Dying" (Birth Canal Blues) 2008
Andrew Liles - "The Milky Way Seen Through The Cripple's Telescope" (Mother Goose's Melody Or Sonnets For The Cradle) 2005
Genesis P-Orridge - "Joint Effort"+"Mourning To The Dusk" (Early Worm) 1968/2008
Gnaw Their Tongues - "My Body is Not a Vessel, Nor a Temple. It's a Repulsive Pile of Sickness" (An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood) 2007
Iancu Dumitrescu - "Pierres Sacrées" (Edition Modern 1003) 1991
ELpH vs. Coil - "The Halliwell Hammers (2)" (Worship the Glitch) 1995
Andrew Liles - "One Misty Moisty Morning" (Mother Goose's Melody Or Sonnets For The Cradle) 2005
Nurse with Wound - "side A" (L'Âge d'Or/With All Its Special Effects) bootleg 80's
Current 93 (Andrew Liles remix) - "The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (The Great In The Small)" (Nature Revealed) 2008

حشّاشين

Muleete é o famoso lugar onde habitava, em tempos, o Velho da Montanha. Agora vou falar-vos do assunto, segundo o que o senhor Marco ouviu de muitos homens.

O Velho é chamado, na sua língua, de Aladino. Fez construir, num vale, entre duas montanhas, o maior e o mais belo jardim do mundo. Aqui havia todos os frutos e os mais belos palácios do mundo, todos pintados a ouro, com animais e pássaros; existiam certos regos de água, de mel e de vinho; havia aí donzelas de extrema beleza, peritas a cantar, tocar e dançar. E o Velho dava a entender a todos que aquilo era o paraíso. E fê-lo assim, porque Maomé disse que quem fosse para o paraíso encontraria belas mulheres à vontade e rios de leite, de vinho e de mel. Foi por isso que o fez semelhante àquilo que Maomé tinha dito; os sarracenos daquela região acreditavam plenamente que fosse o paraíso.

Neste jardim, porém, só entravam aqueles que deviam tornar-se assassinos. À sua entrada, havia uma fortificação tão robusta que não era de temer surpresas de homens. O Velho tinha na sua corte todos os jovens da região, dos doze aos vinte anos, que lhe parecessem que se iam tornar homens fortes. Quando o Velho os fazia entrar no jardim, em grupos de quatro, de dez, ou de vinte, mandava-lhes dar a beber ópio, e eles dormiam uns bons três dias e, depois, fazia-os levar para o jardim onde os despertavam.

TECNOSTERONA, 24 de Maio de 2008

Hashisheen - The Old Man of the Mountain (The End Of Law)

Ruth White - The Clock (The Flowers Of Evil)

...Desert Winds...

Rashîd Al-Quandarjî - Maqâm Bayyâtî (Musique Savant d'Irak)

Omar Souleyman - Atabat (Highway to Hassake)

Osamu Kitajima - Good of Music... (Benzaiten)

Osamu Kitajima - Taiyo (Benzaiten)

Acid Mothers Temple - Genesis Of Humanity (41st Century Splendid Man Returns)

Timothy Leary - The Trip The Turn On (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)

Space Machine - Untitled (3)

Nurse With Wound - Untitled (Chance Meeting Of A Defective Tape Machine...)

San Ul Lim - My Soul Lies On Silk (San Ul Lim)

Pärson Sound - From Tunis To India In Fullmoon (On Testosterone) (Pärson Sound)

Group 1850 - Put My Hands On Your Shoulder (Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth)

Collegium Musicum - Eufonia (Konvergencie)

Quando os jovens despertavam e viam tudo o que vos disse, acreditavam verdadeiramente que estavam no paraíso. As donzelas faziam-lhes companhia, cantando e tocando muito alegremente,e com eles se deleitavam sempre que queriam; deste modo tinham tudo o que desejavam e por nada deste mundo deixariam aquele paraíso. O Velho tinha uma esplêndida e rica corte e fazia crer àquela gente simples da montanha que era um profeta.

Quando o Velho queria mandar matar alguém, ordenava que a um certo número de jovens no jardim fosse dado uma poção soporífica, e mal adormeciam fazia-os levar do seu palácio. Quando acordavam e se encontravam aí, ficavam muito admirados e muito tristes por se encontrarem fora do paraíso. Iam ter com o Velho e ajoelhavam-se aos seus pés, pois acreditavam que era um grande profeta; ele perguntava-lhes donde vinham. Respondiam: «Do paraíso»; e contavam-lhe tudo o que tinham visto lá dentro e o desejo de voltarem. Quando o Velho queria matar alguma pessoa, mandava apanhar o mais forte, e mandava-o matar quem ele queria.

E eles faziam-no de boa vontade para regressarem ao paraíso; se se salvavam, regressavam ao seu Senhor; se eram presos, queriam morrer, julgando que voltavam ao paraíso.

E quando o Velho queria mandar matar algum homem, apanhava-o e dizia-lhe: «Vá, faz-lhe tal coisa; mando-te fazer isto porque quero que regresses ao paraíso.» Os assassinos iam e faziam-no de muito boa vontade. Desta maneira, não escapava à morte nenhum homem perante o Velho da Montanha, desde que ele não o quisesse; e digo-vos que muitos reis prestavam-lhe um tributo com medo de serem mortos.

paint it black

The club is a well of darkness, a claustrophobic space thick with anticipation. One spotlight falls on the center of the bare stage. Slowly, as a devotee to an altar of his own construction, a man approaches, steps into the white pool of light. He is small, of indeterminate age, but clearly nearing or just past fifty, almost painfully thin. He wears black. All black. A long-sleeved shirt, pants, shoes with long, pointed toes. A few bulky silver rings adorn his fingers; some sort of necklace hangs around his neck. His face is nearly invisible behind long, thick bangs, a curtain of hair which frames his face hanging past his shoulders nearly to his stomach, and huge, opaque wraparound sunglasses. He holds an all-black guitar, cradling it in both arms as though it is almost too much for him to carry.

Phil Freeman (October 1999)

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations."

Hermann von Helmholtz

Tecnosterona, 12 de Janeiro de 2008

Lost Aaraaff, "Lost Aaraaff";

Fushitsusha, "The Caution Appears";

Alan Licht & Keiji Haino, "Gerry Miles";

Fushitsusha, Allegorical Misunderstanding;

Keiji Haino & Tatsuya Yoshida, "Until Water Grasps Flames"

Keiji Haino & Tatsuya Yoshida, "New Rap"

Keiji Haino, "Black Blues"

Keiji Haino, "Beginning and End, Interwoven"

Peter Brötzmann & Keiji Haino, "Evolving Blush or Driving Original Sin"

Knead, "1st"

Tecnosterona, 12 de Janeiro de 2008

erzhält orientalische märchen

No dia 29 de Dezembro de 2007 o conto de fadas radiofónico foi povoado pelas seguintes personagens:

第一に章 Takehisa Kosugi "Mano Dharma '74" (Catch-Wave) + Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener "Der Gemahl Der Nacht" (Erzhält Orientalische Märchen)

補佐します章 Stomu Yamashta "Sunrise" (Red Buddah Theatre); Tokyo Kid Brothers "untitled 1" (Throw Away The Books); Speed, Glue & Shinki "Mr. Walking Drugstore Man" (Eve); Akira Ishikawa "Day Tripper" (Soul Session); Lost Aaraaff "Untitled 1" (Lost Aaraaff); Hiro Yanagida "The Butcher" (Soul Session); J.A. Caesar "Kyoujo Bushi" (Kokkyou Junreika); Foodbrain "That Will Do" (Social Gathering); Les Rallizes Denudes "Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes" (Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes).

karlheinz stockhausen's ecstatic piece

No passado sábado, fizemos uma pequena homenagem ao compositor alemão Karlheinz Stockhausen, falecido no passado dia 5 de Dezembro, maltratando as seguintes obras:

Teil I (Kontakte) 1959-60
Struktur I - Kontakte (Elektronische Musik) 1952-60
Croupier: Impair et Manque + Marseillaise: Erinnerung + Studie Gesprach (Hymnen) 1966-7
Helikopter-Quartett (Helikopter-Quartett) 1999
Teil I (9) (Mantra) 1970
Mikrophonie I-IX (Xi) (Mikrophonie I) 1964
Model 12 + model 13 (Stimmung - singcircle version) 1986
Treffpunkt (first version) (Aus den sieben Tagen LP 2) 1968
Luzifers Traum ii - formelzyklus (4) (Samstag aus Licht) 1988
God save the queen (19) + Zentrum/1st Center Deutschland + 2.Zentrum USA-Collage (Hymnen) 1966-7
Fische-Pisces (Tierkreis - Mélodie des douzes signes célestes) 1975/95
Fais voile vers le soleil (Aus den sieben Tagen nº26) 1970/88
Teil II (Kontakte) 1959-60
Teil II (15) (Mantra) 1970
Struture 15 (Telemusik) 1968
Kurzwellen verwischte sprache + zentrum forsetzung UdSSR (Russland) + USA Battle hymn of the Republic Glory Glory Hallelujah (Hymnen) 1966-7
Luzifers Traum - die einfache melodie (Samstag aus Licht) 1988

quatre.vingts

Na emissão especial dedicada aos 80 anos do compositor francês Pierre Henry, cortámos, colámos, manipulámos e misturámos as seguintes obras:

Soufle 2 (Le Voyage) 1962
Excerto de uma entrevista com Pierre Henry sobre o seu encontro com Pierre Schaeffer
Prosopopée I (Symphonie pour un homme seul) 1951 c/Pierre Schaeffer
Prologue + Psyché Rock + Jéricho Jerk + Teen Tonic + Too Fortiche (Messe pour le temps Présent) c/Michel Colombier 1967
Titre-Révélation - Premier temps (Apocalypse de Jean, Oratorio Eléctronique en cinq temps) 1968
Excerto de "Maléfices", banda sonora do filme homónimo de Henri Decoin 1962
2000 suckers 8 tentacles (The secret love life of the octopus) Banda sonora para o filme "Les amours de la pieuvre" de Jean Painlevé de 1967
Calèches (L'homme à la caméra de Dziga Vertov) 1993
Battements (Mouvement-Rythme-Études) 1970
Les Quatres Cavaliers (L'Apocalypse de Jean) 1968
Guerre (Remixe sa Dixième Symphonie) 1998
Sept Amok (Dracula) 2003
Flipper (La Ville Die Stadt Metropolis Paris) 1984
Tokyo 2002 (Une Tour de Babel. Tokyo 2002) 1998
Jubilation (Ceremony) c/ Spooky Tooth 1969
Solarisation (Voyage Initiatique) 2005

música para a restauração

D. Sebastião, um rei jovem e aventureiro, habituado a ouvir as façanhas das cruzadas e histórias de conquistas além mar, quis conquistar o Norte de África em sua luta contra os mouros. Na batalha de Alcácer Quibir no Norte de África, os portugueses foram derrotados e D. Sebastião desapareceu. E os guerreiros diziam cada um a sua historia. O desaparecimento de D. Sebastião (1557-1578) na batalha de Alcácer-Quibir, apesar da sucessão do Cardeal D. Henrique (1578-1580), deu origem a uma crise dinástica.

Nas Cortes de Tomar de 1581, Filipe II de Espanha é aclamado rei, jurando os foros, privilégios e mais franquias do Reino de Portugal. Durante seis décadas Portugal ficou privado de rei natural, sob o que se tem designado por "domínio filipino".

Vai daí...

Em 7 de Junho de 1640 eclodia também a revolta na Catalunha contra o centralismo do Conde-Duque de Olivares. O próprio Filipe IV manda apresentar-se em Madrid o duque de Bragança, para o acompanhar à Catalunha e cooperar no movimento de repressão a que ia proceder. Muitos nobres portugueses receberam semelhante convocatória. À semelhança do duque de Bragança, muitos nobres não se dispuseram a obedecer a Madrid.

Em 12 de Outubro, em casa de D. Antão de Almada, reuniram-se D. Miguel de Almeida, Francisco de Melo e seu irmão Jorge de Melo, Pedro de Mendonça Furtado, António de Saldanha e João Pinto Ribeiro. Decidiu-se então ir chamar o Duque de Bragança a Vila Viçosa para que este assumisse o seu dever de defesa da autonomia portuguesa, assumindo o Ceptro e a Coroa de Portugal.

No dia 1 de Dezembro de 1640, eclodiu por fim em Lisboa a revolta, imediatamente apoiada por muitas comunidades urbanas e concelhos rurais de todo o país, levando à instauração da Casa de Bragança no trono de Portugal. (vide more at wiki...)

Logo:

Ryoji Ikeda - #13 (Night Passage Demixed) 1996
Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti (Une Histoire de la Musique Baroque - Musique Profane: Le Madrigal) Séc. XVII
Clemencic Consort - Sequentia Vini (La fête de l'âne: La messe des ânes et des buveurs) Baixa Idade Média
Coca-Cola Company - Fifth Dimension Coke (80's?)
Kentucky Fried Chicken - KFC training: cleaning (KFC CD) (90's?)
Nurse With Wound - untitled (Rat Tapes One) 2006
Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny clown clown (The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be aka The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be) 1989
Arnold Schwarznegger - Let your body rock (Total Body Workout) 1983
Coldcut - Atomic Mood 2000 - cornelius remix (Let Us replay!) 1998
Venetian Snares - More drugs less love (7 sevens Med EP) 2000
Pepsi cola company - Pepsi is for swingers
Ornette Coleman Trio - Snowflake and sunshine (At the "golden circle" Vol. Two) 1965-2002
Ornette Coleman - Chronology + Congeniality (The shape of jazz to come) 1959
John Zorn - Word for bird (Spy vs. spy) 1989
? - Soft drinks in cans
Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Pastel Blues) 1965