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Monthly Archives: February 2010

JEAN MICHEL JARRE

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Another real pioneer amongst those for electronic music plays not tonight but March 5th, yeah, in Berlin. After having been sold out there are again tickets available for this most possibly amazing concert. You may check out his website here.

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TATI x CHOMET

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Illusionist is the latest animation from Sylvain Chomet, the man who directed The Triplets of Belleville. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last week.
Some notes:
1. It is based on a screenplay that Jacques Tati wrote 54 years ago. The screenplay is believed to have been written as a message to the daughter [...]

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BAD NEWS FOR MODERN RADIO

Saturday, February 27, 2010

BBC 6 Music stands alone in playlisting intelligent, challenging alternative music. Getting rid of it would be a travesty. Read more here.

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TONIGHT IN BERLIN

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Beach House are playing at cosy Roter Salon in Berlin tonight. This Baltimore based band is a mono.kultur favourite, as previously seen here, here, here, here and here.
Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin. Starts 10 pm. www.roter-salon-berlin.de/

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TODAY IN LONDON

Thursday, February 25, 2010

One Place, an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, is currently on show in London. It features hundreds of old glass windows taken from East Berlin building sites.
Chiharu Shiota, One Place, is at Haunch of Venison, London until 27 March.

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Coming Cosmogramma

Thursday, February 25, 2010

On March 3rd, the second album Cosmogramma by sound phenomenon Flying Lotus will be released. We don’t know what it sounds like. But Warp comforts us with 3 non-album download tracks.
The first track on Cosmogramma is titled Clock Catcher, and our more frequent readers won’t be able to ignore the direct reference to our recent [...]

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CALVIN KLEIN VS. ALVA NOTO

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Not only did fashion label Calvin Klein under the creative direction of Francisco Costa present one of the best collections so far for Autumn / Winter 2010, they also broke with one of the unwritten rules of the fashion industry: for some bizarre reason, the music for the biannual fashion shows is firmly in the [...]

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EARLY YEARS

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Contemporary art is having its moment in Poland these days. Museums get built, and new public as well as private institutions emerge. Artists’ names become common knowledge, their practice—previously ignored or misinterpreted—is widely understood and accepted today. It speaks for itself that the most central tract of land in the Polish capital will soon [...]

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IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRIES

Monday, February 22, 2010

Last night, I stopped by the opening of 177 Livingston, a terrific new space in downtown Brooklyn. This long-empty storefront will house three wonderful organizations: the online magazine Triple Canopy, the electronic arts gallery Light Industry, and the New York incarnation of the Public School, a “a school with no curriculum” with chapters in Los [...]

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NEW MATH

Sunday, February 21, 2010

A friend recently introduced me to the delights of New Math.  New Math is created by the American artist Craig Damrauer.  To see more New Math (and even order an equation-emblazoned T-shirt), click here.

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