http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/ ja Copyright 2007 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:03:31 +0900 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21-ja http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The project leader Svenja talks about the "Letzte Uberprufung" ("Last Lookout") project, in which places and history intertwine.

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Born in former East Germany in 1969 Musician, producer, poet, artist. Has been active as a musician since 1990. Also collaborates with LAUB, Craig Armstrong, Kaffe Matthews, Delay, Towa Tei, and visual artists sou.

Won the Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica 2004 in the Digital Music category. Served as juror for the Digital Music category at Ars Electronica in 2006. �¨http://www.poemproducer.com/ * This time there wasn�ft a live performance, so you can hear several of the tracks �@�¨http://www.poemproducer.com/freemusic.php * The website from LAUB�fs previous work, where you can �gplay�h with AGF�fs voice. You can make the well-known piece Wortspur through voice sampling. Indeed, she uses voice as one of the musical instruments. http://www.laub-filesharing.de/html/english/aiff/wortspur.html

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]]> http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/words_8min.html http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/words_8min.html AAL021 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:18:27 +0900 AGF talked to me about the hardware that she uses. If you�fre interested, please take a listen.

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]]> http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/electronic_2min.html http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/electronic_2min.html AAL021 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:20:15 +0900 Indeed, the wonderful thing about AGF is that voice of hers. The moment she sets foot into the recording studio and puts on the headphones, she transforms from AGF the mother to AGF the musician, and her aura slowly envelopes us all. Moreover, she sang DEINETWEGEN, a love song that is the title song to the yet-to-be-released LAUB album. Once in a lifetime...

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]]> http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/voice_3min.html http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/voice_3min.html AAL021 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:24:07 +0900 Going to meet people I want to meet This week I�fm introducing staalplaat soundsystem, artists who traverse Europe with Berlin as their base. I�fve experienced a lot of different sound art, sound installations and sound performances, but the YOKOMONO live at Ars Electronica gave me the goose bumps. I decided to see them in Berlin. Jan is Dutch and founded the record label staalplaat, and kind of acts as the leader of soundsystem. Carsten was born in East Germany, and has organized an arts festival in the town of Stralsund on the Baltic Sea. Apparently it�fs going to be held in Berlin this year. I�fd love to go... Plofile Created in 2000 by Geert-Jan Hobijn, Carsten Stabenow and Carlo Crovato. They�fve presented works that fuse media art with techno, noise, and other kinds of music. Jan founded the record label staalplaat in 1982. Carsten is active in staalplaat, and also created the media art festival �gFestival garage�h in 1997 (this year marks the 10th edition). It�fs scheduled to happen this year in June or July in Berlin. I didn�ft meet Carlo, but apparently he�fs also active as a solo artist. Welcoming back a guest from the past, Suso-san the milliner is back! We visited Miyahara Takao, a friend from college days who is active in the graphic world as an art director.As we talked, it came out that Miyahara is from Hitoyoshi City in Kumamoto Prefecture. It�fs a stone throw�fs away from my hometown, Miyakonojo. There�fs a long loop bridge at Kakuto in Hitoyoshi, but I hadn�ft thought of it in ages before meeting Miyahara.]]> http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/post_47.html http://www.directions.jp/airartlog/eng/2007/09/post_47.html AAL022 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:26:54 +0900 In the Ars Electronica Digital Music category last year, staalplaat�fs YOKOMONO was a selected work. Four red Volkswagen mini cars loaded with FM antenna towers spin on top of vinyl records, and countless battered radio cassette players hang from the four walls and project the sound of the cars rubbing against the vinyl. The mini cars slow down as their batteries die, which also changes the FM frequency. As spectators walk between the mini cars and the radios, the frequency changes subtly. Enter inside, and it�fs like being tossed into a sea of noise. The noise flowing from the walls envelops any trace of people, and leaves you enjoying the harmony of digital and analog.

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