g24

if you want to know what's going on in the cultural underground in graz - like music, art, or even politics you are in the right place at g24.at!
it's a web community from/in graz and it's based on a discussion board and calendar mainly.
basically the idea was to provide all sorts of information about events in graz... but as it is a community, also the community members are contributors, authors, journalists, reviewer, etc.
the calendar involved is a real pleasure! at a single glance you can check all upcoming events, art exhibitions, concerts, discussion, and so on taking place in and around graz.
and this huge community is participating a lot on this board and eager to keep everything updated.
last year in the beginning of june g24 organized their 5th birthday party, based on open discussions on the board, brainstorming about bands, djs, visuals, etc.... of course it was a 24 hour party - what else ;)
and here is the cake ..... and happy birthday ;)

netlabels

a lot of young, solo-artists especially doing electonic music are releasing their stuff on a netlabel. the advantage of netlabels are on both sides the artist/label and listeners. artists don't have to pay a fortune to get a record, neither does the label. only a few graphic designs like a cover and that's it! and as everthing is on the web the music is accessible all over the world without distributors - the most difficult thing .....
the listener can download the mp3 or whole album for free and enjoy listening!
an

as you might notice, there is not a lot of money to earn with that, so more likley people with an diy attidute are involved in these kind of releasing.
but alot of downloads are always good recommendation.

find one of many examples above:
simon/off is an electronic music artist from graz releasing on plainaudio!

last.fm

last.fm is a prime example for what social web can do!
like on myspace artists can design their own webpages and upload music. fans are able to get in touch with the band or other fans.... you can tag your favorites and create your own radio station... lovley ;)

interfaces

interfaces are a 'super-hero' topic for me ;)
i don't really know how these things work - from a technical perspective and i guess this makes it much more interesting to me.
if i'm talking about interfaces i now mean gadgets to make music with, so this could be a simple touch-pad in all different sorts of apperance, but the more interesting 'instruments' are interfaces responding to light, vibrations and body movements..... like a theremin ... wow!!!

i am working on a relation to our main content - besides technological development blablabla..

just click on the pic and find some damn cool examples!

ncc festival

http://ncc05.mur.at/
follow the link and find the program and documantation of ncc festival 2005...

the reason why i picked this one:
a discussion was with nomad was part of the program, which is an interesting project and some people where not able to cross some borders, so they participated via live transmission/stream from turkey!
more information here: http://nomad-tv.net/

see also ncc2007
http://ncc07.mur.at/modules/module3/roberta/?searchterm=zu