augartenfest 08

every year I´m looking forward to spend my time with my friends at the location, which is called augarten to enjoy the "augartenfest". There are lots of fantasic bands and singers, if you get it just to listen the music and enjoy the summer time. I hope the wheater will be nice, but in real I don´t care about it. So its coming closer and closer it will be a grat time, I´m sure...

la strada

La Strada 2008 1 to 9 of August 2008

Well of course the other 51 weeks aren’t bad either. There’s always your birthday or a holiday after all, you can look forward to family get-togethers and the UEFA cup. But this one particular week… It’s special. At least I think so. Exactly, must put it into my diary right away. Now, where’s my 2008 diary? Bother, where have I put it this time ... Ah yes, there, thank God. So: 1st to the 9th of August 2008, LA STRADA

first of all the text wasn´t written by me, if are you interested in turn to page http://www.lastrada.at/

there you can find bit more information about the festival of music includied theatre and dance

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 ;)

at the show

the world wide web is especially helpful for small underground youth cultures, and one of these is the hardcore scene.
while in the early years of hardcore tours have been booked via telephone or writing letters with people who are close to each other, physically, emotionally etc.
today every kid who is interested in hardcore and participating in the scene can join easily through this tight knitted social network!
now it is possible to do a simple fanzine online with some friends and people all over the world would have access. or just like a few kids in austria – you can put your pictures from the show online!
the kids in this case started with little knowledge about photography, but wanted to fetch the moment of action, feelings and emotions in such concerts. and till now they have been grown to excellent photographers, traveling through europe, taking pictures at hardcore shows – nice, isn't it?? ;)

mtv rar blog

here the link to mtv's 'rock am ring' live blog... nice picture and a lot of background information....

'krocha'

well 'krochen' is the brand-new youth phenomenon in austria, to be geographicaly more precise 'wr. neustadt' and the suburbs of vienna, but spreading around. but against the common assumption this penomenon was not born in viennas suburbs, but this culture found a very special apperance in this region. in other european countries this style is known as jumpstyle or hardstyle and first appeared in belgium.

the jumpstyler are my no. 1 media konstruct 2008!
i think it is just amazing how fast this style flooded europe and parts of asia

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!

donaufestival - krems

here you can find one of the most amazing festivals in austria:
the 'donaufestival' in krems.......
it started rather small, was constantly growing the last years and probably found its peak two years ago with festival day curated by mike patten (former singer of faith no more).
but the festival is not only about amazing music its about art and all its spectacular, breathtaking versions of contemporary performance, theater, music etc.
i guess this festival is transforming this small, beautiful city of krems in to a magical, shine space - where everything seems possible - at least for the moment.
if you are open for new things, give it a try!!! you'll be fascinated!!!

so here the trailer....



and here some video report on the festival by students of FH krems







if you are still not satisfied read articels here....


or get your ticket next year ;)

ENJOY

iTunes

Since its launch, the iTunes Store has crossed many milestones. In the first 18 hours, the store sold about 275,000 tracks and more than 1,000,000 in its first 5 days. When released for Windows in October 2003, iTunes was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times in the first 3 days, selling more than 1,000,000 songs in that period. On December 15, 2003 Apple announced that it had crossed 25 million songs sold.

On April 9, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 2.5 billion songs.^[29]

On April 11, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than two million movies, making it the world’s most popular online movie store.^[30]

On July 31, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 3 billion songs.^[31]

On January 15, 2008 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 4 billion songs.

On February 26, 2008 Apple announced that iTunes Store surpassed Best Buy to become the 2nd biggest music seller behind Wal-Mart.

On April 3, 2008 it was announced that the iTunes store had surpassed Wal-Mart to become the biggest music retailer in the US.^[1]

mySpace

Music

MySpace profiles for musicians are different from normal profiles in that artists are allowed to upload up to six MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g their own work, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians can use MySpace to post and sell music using SNOCAP, which has proven popular among MySpace users. Shortly after MySpace was sold to Rupert Murdoch the owner of Fox news and 20th Century Fox in 2005 ^[29]they launched their own record label, MySpace Records, in an effort to discover unknown talent currently on MySpace Music. MySpace Music is a section of the website that allows its users to display their songs. It doesn’t matter if the artist is already famous or still looking for a break into the industry; aspiring artists can load their songs onto MySpace and have access to millions of people on a daily basis. Some well known singers such as Lilly Allen and Sean Kingston gained fame through MySpace. The availability of music on this website continues to develop in the foundation of young talent. Over eight million artists have been discovered by MySpace, and many more continue to be discovered daily ^[30]

see also : http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/11234/myspace-to-sell-music-from-unsigned-
bands
http://www.myspace.com/myspacerecords

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