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LOUP is a mix between free-jazz, drone and noise, captured in a voluntary, affirmed and exciting flux, which gave them the opportunity to support bands such as Rangda (Chris Corsano, Rick Bishop, Ben Chasny) and The Thing ( Mats Gustafsson's trio) with Otomo Yoshihide; LOUP sounds definitely right http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/free-albums/L/47-loup/55-the-openingLOUP is a mix between free-jazz, drone and noise, captured in a voluntary, affirmed... more
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The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/43046-us-militarys-sock-puppet-software-that-manipulates-social-mediaThe US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social... more
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An analyst informs that the US has its army on standby against the Occupy and student movement as the economic situation in America deteriorates day by day. 1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year's staggering take topped the charts, next year's orders are up 400 percent over the same period. This upswing coincides with an increasingly military-like style of law enforcement most recently seen in the Occupy Wall Street crackdowns. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43038-us-set-to-use-army-to-put-down-protestsAn analyst informs that the US has its army on standby against the Occupy and student... more
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Engineers in the U.S are hoping to build the world's largest Tesla coil. This would be of interest to scientist Peter Terren who created these huge electric sculptures using a Tesla coil in Australia. The Lightning Foundry is a project based on 20 years of development. Lightning is electricity, but operates very differently from electrical discharges at the human scale. As lightning forms, it breaks through the air up to ten times easier than small-scale electric arcs, using tricks we don’t yet understand. The problem of understanding "lightning initiation" still confounds world experts in the field. However, recent theories and a bizarre experimental accident suggest that laboratory-scale electric arcs start to gain lightning-like abilities once they grow past about 200ft in length. The man behind the project, high voltage engineer Greg Leyh, wants to see how lightning gets so efficient at transmitting electricity..... read all http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43030-the-lightning-foundry-project
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At the turn of the century, scientist Nikola Tesla developed his Tesla coil: an electrical current generator that he envisioned as a potential power source shooting lightning into the air to be pulled down by energy customers around the world. Almost a century later, artist Eric Orr was commissioned to build a huge sculpture that would throw magnificant lightning bolts. He turned to high-voltage engineer Greg Leyh for help, and the result was the largest Tesla coil in the world - a tower four stories high that generates three million volts of electricity and 40-foot bolts of lightning. So often we think of science and art as being irreconcilable opposites. This program proves the reverse: ELECTRUM is an intriguing opportunity to explore the relationship between technology and art, and meet the people who see beyond the ordinary.Engineers in the U.S are hoping to build the world's largest Tesla coil. This... more
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Belo Monte Dam construction site was occupied by 400 indigenous people, fishermen and riverine community members who oppose the project due to its severe environmental impacts and human rights violations. The occupation was a collective decision made by 700 representatives from local communities who attended a seminar against the Belo Monte Dam held this week in Altamira, and it proved an important step forward in the continuing struggle to halt the project. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43020-occupy-belo-monte-update-on-the-belo-monte-dam-protestBelo Monte Dam construction site was occupied by 400 indigenous people, fishermen and... more
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the Amazon, amid a national furore over the way opposition to the road has been handled.
Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15072166Bolivian President Evo Morales has suspended work on a highway being built in the... more
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I'm going to tell the story began in a spring morning two years ago when I decided to go to a well-know publisher in my Region in order to present my photographic work making in Sicily during the period of two years (2008-2009).
I was surprised to be greeted so warmly as not to seem true (in fact I discovered after the trick). I received immediately a job offer !
I could scarcely believe my eyes ! My train trip to home was incredible. I had the adrenaline flowing inside me, impetuous. My heart was pounding, my eyes were wide open to the future now. My future!
The second meeting was more productive, I even was offered a contract for two books!
In May and June I worked night and day to complete the text portion that would have accompanied my shots,just in time to deliver all the works to the publisher.
In July 2009 i signed my agreement !
Incredible, someone recognized my work, I should not pay for the pubblishing and i would earn a percentage of sales!
It certainly was not the best contract in the world but it was my contract.
In the following weeks the many meetings and phone calls succeeded till the delivery of the work to the publisher were replaced by the silences and false absences.
I did't receive any response for many many weeks!
But i am a professional author and approaching the pubblishing date, as agreed with the editor during our last meeting, i started to promote the book.
Maybe you understand yourselves, but the book was never published...
So you could imagine tha i become depressed !
During the last two years the publisher has not responded to phone calls, e-mail, the registered letters about the rescission of the contract and the return of all original book content.
To date, the publisher has my book in his hand and many of my shots made in Sicily at that time.
Luckily I still have the original negatives !
I wanted to tell you this story to warn of false cultural prophets, false pubblisher and curators.
This one and many other stories we will teel you in the coming months.
I you want to tell us your story write to: contact@zooproject.netI'm going to tell the story began in a spring morning two years ago when I... more
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Making art in Italy is something you should feel at fault, affecting the honor of the person !
People look at you in a different way and many young artists are forced to go to other countries to express themselves.
The world of galleries, art institutions, is a circle of politicians and merchants sinister.
As I have stated in other public occasions, the job of an artist in this country is the victim of inadequate awareness and knowledge of those working in this field.
To open an art gallery does not need any specific expertise, any degree and if you do it in the form of cultural association, which is hugely popular for many, you can have a low taxation.
Just follow the course of any other bureaucratic business, is like the grocer, category to which this writer feeds the deepest esteem.
So a shop suddenly becomes a place of art, where youngs who aspire to do this job are literally blackmailed by pseudo bungler patrons.
During the last year I worked in a personal and private project with a group of student of a southern Italy fine arts academy and I verified how is very hard to exhibit own works and show own talent.
I've traveled for months searching for a gallery who wants to exhibit my works giving them just a lot of information “I am a student of a fine art academy, I would like to exhibit in your gallery, that's my works !”
Most of the galleries have proposed a price more expansive, ranging from 500 to 1500 euros per week, plus expenses of organization.
You understand that a talented young artist who is often penniless will never have the opportunity to show their work.
At this point come into play the art critics.
If I'm an artist, in order to have an authoritative review , I must to pay for a critic who writes on commission. In this way I grant visibility to my work !
What seems obvious, the good faith, the cultural integrity , is actually pure exchange of favors, often very expensive , between who wants to exist as artist quoted by a critic and who wants to preserve their privileges.
Public places for art, few or many it's not mine to judge, are the apotheosis of the cultural “fancazzismo” of many assessors, managers and mayors.
If you try to approach one of these places without any political affiliation, you will receive the most varied and immaginative answers.
I would say that an artist should make his carreer looking for political events of the city rather than his heart.
Someone could assert that in the past the relationship between art and politics was strong and tight, that's correct !
How say that this is wrong , but the roles were clearly defined.
Art is the homeopathic vaccine in this country, always has been.
Today, at the best, it is unfortunately a generic drug or a placebo.
It's simple, just show a lot 'of "talent" and everything is solved for the better, the doors will be opened.
Academies, places often true art killer, should finally open the eyes of youngs on what really happens, but I guess this is another story.Making art in Italy is something you should feel at fault, affecting the honor of the... more
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The 'radioactive orchestra' uses data from the gamma decay of atoms as the foundation for electronic music composition ..... 'Radioactive orchestra', a web-based musical interface resultant from a collaboration between sweden's royal institute of technology (KTH) and nuclear safety and training institute (KSU), is designed to render aurally the processes of atomic gamma decay. KTH professors arne johnson and bo cederwall and doctorate karin andgren envisioned and developed the project, which was formalized by electronic artist kristofer hagbard into an interactive web interface for data exploration and sound track generation..... http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/general-music-news/item/the-radioactive-orchestra-creating-music-from-the-sound-of-radiationThe 'radioactive orchestra' uses data from the gamma decay of atoms as the... more
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July 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply pipeline. It will take months to repair. Then on Saturday they hit the pipeline factory producing pipes to repair it. The Libyan leader Moammar Al Gaddafi informed members of the Security Council in his message that the alliance decided to carry out mass murder against the Libyan people by targeting their only drinking water source, where billions were invested and without it life stops in Libya. He wondered what's the relation between this factory and the protection of civilians that NATO claims it is carrying out? http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42990-nato-attack-great-man-made-riverJuly 22 2011. A date for humanity to remember. NATO hit the Libyan water supply... more
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At the dawn of summer we are glad to present once more the work by Jaume Muntsant. Under its ambient project Nigul, Muntsant walks one step more on his approach on ambient music. Since Maya (his last instalment on Audiotalaia) many things have changed on the creative level of this artist from Barcelona. http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/free-albums/N/23-nigul/27-cervolAt the dawn of summer we are glad to present once more the work by Jaume Muntsant.... more
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You may be surprised to learn that the voder and vocoder date back to 1939 and 1940, respectively. Considered the first electrical speech synthesizer, VODER (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR) was developed by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs and demonstrated at both the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Difficult to use and difficult to operate, VODER nonetheless paved the way for future machine-generated speech. http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/general-music-news/item/a-brief-voder-and-vocoder-history-early-speech-synthesizerYou may be surprised to learn that the voder and vocoder date back to 1939 and 1940,... more
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In January 2008 some members of an Internet-based collective known as Anonymous began actions against the Church of Scientology that are continuing. They designated their collective action “Project Chanology.” The originations of Project Chanology, its structure, its decision-making process, and its methods of protesting are collectively unique. Project Chanology shows the new types of social networking and activism that can spring from the instant communication the Internet provides. Understanding Project Chanology will provide a template for understanding such future movements and their actions........ http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42986-the-war-hackers-vs-scientology-project-chanologyIn January 2008 some members of an Internet-based collective known as Anonymous began... more
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"In the East Village middle school kids have been making bird houses as part of their school projects. The neighbors started complaining when they discovered rats were getting into the birds house to eat the food. I say to hell with the birds, this is New York City. Have a little respect for the rats."
video by Ethan H. Minsker"In the East Village middle school kids have been making bird houses as part of... more
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In science fiction movies, when robots talk to one another it's not really a "language" as much as a stream of beeps or long strings of binary. Even so, one group of Australian researchers have managed to teach robots to do something that, until now, was the reserve of humans and a few other animals: they've taught them how to invent and use spoken language.
The goal of the research is to understand how language evolves and develops naturally over time. Since it's impossible to find two humans who have no language and experiment with them to see how they invent one, the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology researchers decided to use robots instead. The robots, called LingoDroids, are equipped with microphones, speakers, cameras, range finders, and sonar that they use to map their surroundings and speak to one another. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/42967-lingodroid-project-robots-taught-to-invent-own-languageIn science fiction movies, when robots talk to one another it's not really a... more
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DUBMAGE BRAIN is a self-produced solo dub music project that was initiated in mid-2010. This music offers a personal and unique atmosphere, resulting from a mix of strong rhythms, bass-line, melodies, vocal samples and the abuse of effects like reverbs and delays. There are tracks that go from classical to more experimental sounds, creating a subliminal atmosphere that is transporting. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/dub/42957-dubmage-brain-2DUBMAGE BRAIN is a self-produced solo dub music project that was initiated in... more
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