#^Over The Border 2018 - Music Diversity Festival

Diversity Returns – Das „Over-the-border“-Festival 2018
From 9 March until 25 March 2018, for the third time around, OVER THE BORDER Festival off ers musicians from around the globe a stage to present their music and their culture. The Festival aims to initiate inspiring and controversial dialogues and to promote exchange and encounters across all borders.

Return of Mr Music! | 3 songs bonn

He’s back!  Bernie Gelhausen is re-opening Bonn’s best Record/CD Shop on Saturday (3 March). At 11.11am in Münsterstrasse.

3songs had a sneak preview inside the new Mr Music store and it certainly has cult status written all over it. True, it’s a smaller place than the shop that Gelhausen ran for 25 years in Maximillianstrasse but there will be plenty of vinyl for the old-school collectors, alongside a good selection of CD’s.

This python3 script works really nice to export the last.fm history.
#^encukou/lastscrape-gui

lastscrape-gui - GUI for getting scrobbles from last.fm and moving them somewhere else

In February 2005 my first scrobble was a Norwegian singer, then an Indonesian song. Around 17800 songs later in November 2014 was my last scrobble to last.fm. Actually I wanted to run my own GNU FM installation then, but unfortunately never finished to set it up.

#^Hochspannung im Finale - Aufholjagd im Paarlauf mit Gold gekrönt | ZDF Olympia PyeongChang 2018

Das spannende Finale mit der Kür der Deutschen sowie den entscheidenenden letzten drei Läufen der Konkurrenz.
Kommentar Volker Grube.

15.02.2018 05:19 Uhr
Video verfügbar bis 31.08.2018, 06:27

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#^Olympia-Journal am 15. Februar | Nachrichten | heute-journal

Mit Eiskunstlaufen, Rodeln, Biathlon und mehr.

10 min Datum: 15.02.2018
Video verfügbar bis 31.08.2018, 22:48

Amazing light effect

#^Grace Jones 'Love Is The Drug' (Live).
by thevisitor on YouTube

Fascinating project by the author of The Art of Computer Programming.

#^Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica

Fantasia Apocalyptica is a multimedia work for pipe organ, accompanied by several video tracks. It can be regarded as a somewhat literal translation of the Biblical book of Revelation into music.

#CC0

This documentary is 10 years old already. Always interesting to see how different the cities in Germany have been in the beginning. Also the comments about the starting commercialisation with Mayday and so on. Looking at this today with all the EDM equalisation and globalisation is a bit strange.

This Documentary Investigates The Birth Of Germany’s Techno Scene

We Call It Techno! is now available to stream in full with English subtitles.

Germany is widely recognized as having one of the most influential and iconic techno scenes in the world. The 2008 documentary We Call It Techno! takes an important look back at the musical phenomenon’s cultural roots in Berlin, Frankfurt and beyond with exclusive interviews, unpublished film and rare photographic material from 1988 to 1994. It also includes comments from some of the movement’s most significant DJs and producers, like Sven Väth, Tanith and more.

You can now stream the documentary in full with English subtitles until early 2018. Take a look at where it all began below.

Looking forward to when this will open.

#^MOMEM - Museum Of Modern Electronic Music

"MUSIC IS THE KEY TO TECHNOLOGY“ Brian Eno

MOMEM won't be a Museum. No museum in a classical sense.
It’s a place in the here and now.
An experience raising awareness for various electronic aspects of life:
Sound, fashion, instruments, apps, club culture, spaces, medial surroundings, interaction.

Most of which arose and still arises from music. Electronic Music.
A journey from the beginnings via today into the future.
And to the international hot spots.
Frankfurt in its centre.

#^Jazzchor der Universität Bonn: 'Black or White' - Der beste Chor im Westen | WDR
by WDR on YouTube

#^Jazzchor der Universität Bonn: ‚Chandelier‘ – Der beste Chor im Westen | WDR
by WDR on YouTube

#^Jazzchor der Uni Bonn: ‚Lioness Chant‘– Der beste Chor im Westen | WDR
by WDR on YouTube

#^AquaSonic | Between Music | Performance concerts

Five performers submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions that are both eerily melodic and powerfully resonant.

AquaSonic is the culmination of years of research into the exciting possibilities of submerged musical performance, breaking barriers and challenging existing paradigms.

The artists conducted countless experiments in collaboration with deep-sea divers, instrument makers and scientists to develop entirely new, highly specialized subaqueous instruments. These include an underwater organ or hydraulophone, crystallophone, rotacorda, percussion and violin. The team also perfected a distinctive vocal technique for underwater singing.

The result is a concert experience completely out of the ordinary; a deep dive into a magical new universe of images and sounds.

Frohe Weihnachten. God Jul. Selamat hari Natal. Merry Christmas.

#^Jazzchor der Uni Bonn: ‚Es kommt ein Schiff geladen‘– Der beste Chor im Westen | WDR
by WDR on YouTube

#^Songs by techno band Scooter revisited by classical piano star Olga Scheps | Music | DW | 18.12.2017

Olga Scheps is one of the world's most up-and-coming piano soloists. Her latest album covers pieces by German dance group Scooter. Scheps told DW what fascinated her about this project.

#^Kettcar - Sommer '89 (Er schnitt Löcher in den Zaun)
by Grand Hotel van Cleef on YouTube

#^Conny Plank - The Potential of Noise (Trailer)

ein Film von Reto Caduff & Stephan Plank DE 2017, 92 Min., deutsche-englische OF

Konrad “Conny” Plank (1940-1987) war einer der innovativsten Klanggestaltern und Musikproduzenten seiner Zeit. Die Aufnahmen, die ab den 60er Jahren in seinem sagenumwobenen Tonstudio in Wolperath nahe Köln entstanden sind, haben die Musikwelt revolutioniert. Er war der Pionier des Krautrocks und Wegbereiter der elektronisch geprägten Popmusik. Bands und Künstler wie Neu!, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Ultravox und die Eurythmics nahmen mit ihm auf und betonen noch heute den Einfluss, den er auf ihre Musik hatte. Ohne Plank gäbe es kein “Wir fahrn fahrn fahrn auf der Autobahn” von Kraftwerk, hätte Gianna Nannini wohl für immer auf Englisch gesungen, und wäre ihm ein gewisser Bono sympathischer gewesen, würde “Joshua Tree” von U2 heute ganz anders klingen.

#^Documentary about West German studio legend Conny Plank to be released this year - The Wire

Directed by Reto Caduff and Conny's son Stephan Plank, the documentary looks at the heritage of the producer and sound engineer behind 1970s krautrock, 1980s neue deutsche welle, and much more

Conny Plank: The Potential Of Noise goes on release in September. Directed by Reto Caduff and Stephan Plank, the feature length documentary traces the history of Stephan’s father Conny through the viewpoint of the artists he worked with. It also examines the legacy the West German producer, sound engineer and musician left behind following his death at the age of 47. Ranging across progressive, avant garde, electronic and krautrock, Plank worked with artists such as Neu!, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Guru Guru, La Düsseldorf, Gianna Nannini, Michael Rother, Eurythmics, Les Ritas Mitsuko, Ultravox, and many others. He was also a regular collaborator with Cluster’s Dieter Moebius. Born Konrad Plank in Hütschenhausen in 1940, Conny died of cancer in 1987, leaving behind his wife, the actor Christa Fast, and son Stephan, then aged 13.

#^Revolution Of Sound | All media content | DW | 04.09.2017

Director Margarete Kreuzer looks back the career of Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream, the German band that helped pioneer electronic music.

#^Tunnel of sound - Jazztube series goes underground again

The way to good jazz leads down an elevator. The Jazztube series is currently running in three underground stations in Bonn - and proves to be a talent factory already.

#^New stage, sound and beer pipeline at world's largest heavy metal festival Wacken | Music | DW | 31.07.2017

The 1,800-person village of Wacken in northern Germany will soon be welcoming 80,000 metalheads and 160 bands for three days of headbanging and beer. Here's what's new at this year's festival.

#^I've lost my mind in Essen  â€“ 40 Jahre Rockpalast-Nacht | Reportage & Dokumentation

Am 23. Juli 1977 geht die erste Rocknacht mit Rory Gallagher, Little Feat und Roger McGuinn über den Sender. Es ist die offizielle Geburtsstunde des Rockpalasts. Mit der europaweiten Fernsehübertragung wird ein Kultstatus begründet: Die Live-Übertragung von Konzerten in kompletter Länge bringt Deutschland und den der Eurovision angeschlossenen Ländern die Stromgitarren direkt in die gute Stube. Fans versammeln sich vor den Fernsehern, die Musik, gleichzeitig im Radio übertragen, dröhnt über die Hifi-Anlage verstärkt aus den Boxen durch die Wohnzimmer der Republik.

#^Sony to make vinyl records again after 30-year hiatus | Business | DW | 29.06.2017

The Japanese tech giant stopped making vinyl records in 1989, with cassettes and compact discs dominating the market at that time. But the format's renaissance has led Sony to return it to the market.

Aus der WDR Mediathek

#^Jazzfest Bonn 2017 - Die Highlights

Das Jazzfest Bonn wurde 2010 gegründet und ist mit Abstand das jüngste Mitglied der großen Jazzfestivalfamilie im Westen. Die WDR Jazzline berichtet erstmalig mit einer 100-minütigen Doku über das Event. Gezeigt werden Highlights ausgewählter Konzerte, Interviews und Impressionen. Mit dabei sind unter anderem John Patitucci, Viktoria Tolstoy, Omer Klein und Marius Neset.