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Celeste Oram hat für das Neuseeländische Radio einen Bericht über die Ferienkurse 2014 gemacht.

Interviewees include:

2014 festival director, Thomas Schäfer
New Zealand born musicians, Peter Veale (oboe), Dorothy Ker (composer)
Established and emerging international composers: Johannes Kreidler, Stefan Prins, Lucas Fels, Alice Berni, Jennifer Walshe, David Helbich, Julia Mihaly, Mathieu Corajon, Simon Løffler
Chamber groups, Asean Contemporary Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Sound Initiative
Wafaa Bilal (artist), Meiver de la Cruz (dancer)

Music Details

STOCKHAUSEN: Carré – Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the NDR/Kagel, Stockhausen/Markowski/Gielen (Stockhausen Disc 5)

MEIERHOF: EXIT F – Nadar Ensemble (MIG004)

PRINS: Generation Kill – Nadar Ensemble (NEOS records, 426006311303)

KREIDLER: Windmill Study, Short Cuts from Audioguide– neon Ensemble (RNZ)

LANZA: Regnum Vegitable – ensemble mosaic (RNZ)

LOUILARPPRASERT: From Inside Aristotle – Asean Contemporary Music Ensemble (RNZ)

BIRTWISTLE: Ritual Fragment – London Sinfonietta/Knussen (NMCD009)

GADESTÄTTER: schlitzen (Paramyth 2) – Mivos Quartet (RNZ)

EIZIRIK: music while waiting / music while working – soundinitiative (RNZ)

FURRER: Solo – Lucas Fels (Kairos)

LACHENMANN: Reigen Seliger Geister – Arditti String Quartet (Kairos)

DONATONI: HOT – Ensemble Dal Niente (FCR130)

WALSHE, DE VEGA: improvisation – Jennifer Walshe & Mario de Vega (RNZ)

MIHALY: If You Liked My Posts I Wouldn’t Have To Express Myself in Real Life – Julia Mihaly (RNZ)

FELDMAN: Piano & String Quartet – Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi (pno) (Nonesuch)

http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/soundlounge/audio/201760116/darmstadt-2014-make-it-new!

The Society for the Suppression of Music was sprung upon an unsuspecting Cincinnati in November 1879. The newspapers carried a brief classified item that conveyed the flavor of the new organization:
Society for the Suppression of Music

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Judging by the evidence, the Society for the Suppression of Music was a joke created by Cincinnati artist Henry Farny and paper merchant John S. Woods. Completely humorous in intent, the Society gathered for regular dinners at which members read outrageous reports (some of which saw print in the local newspapers) and awarded each other facetious honors.

Newspapers as far away as Chicago picked up the gag and recommended that their cities should form satellite chapters. The tone (if I may be forgiven a musical metaphor) of the Society is reflected in a letter read at an early meeting:

“I have in my home an instrument of torture known as a piano. My sister performs upon the same, likewise my wife. Where are the liberties guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States and the State of Ohio? Something will come of this. I hope it mayn’t be human gore.”

Wirklich existiert allerdings die Initiative No Music Day.

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WTF des Tages.

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Das Prinzip ist bekannt, hier auch schon vor Jahren gebloggt, aber dieses Beispiel dann doch auch noch bloggenswert.

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Wikipedia:

The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. Attempts to demonstrate the existence of a “brown note” using sound waves transmitted through air have failed.

https://youtu.be/M9mB0OGWkYE

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In 6 seconds, it summarizes the tragedy and comedy of the human experience: hope, victory, hubris, and defeat.

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