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Gugusse et l'automate, Georges Méliès, 1897.

Launching on Monday! 100 years of incredible ethnographic recordings from @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social's extraordinary sound collections, reimagined into brand new compositions by sound artists, musicians, composers, poets and producers from all over the world.

JOB VACANCY - SENIOR PRODUCER
We’re looking for a new Senior Producer to help plan our programme and make it happen: www.cafeoto.co.uk/job-vacancy-...

Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto

Artists told to leave Dalston street that nurtured Oscar winner

Exclusive: Sony Music backs Vermillio's $16M Series A The startup offers an AI licensing and protection platform.

Sony Music backs AI rights startup Vermillio - Axios
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Creative industries are among the UK’s crown jewels – and AI is out to steal them | John Naughton The tech firms’ efforts to change copyright laws and gain free access to intellectual property is patently wrong

On AI - "The only uncertainty [around intellectual property] is around who has been using the UK’s creative crown jewels as training material without permission and how they got hold of it.” - John Naughton, The Observer www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bill Fay, 9 September 1943 – 21 February 2025.
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Black and while picture of a female sound engineer working in a recording studio in the 60s

The library of analogue sounds from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is now publicly available for the first time www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-radiopho...

Translation in several languages of the French slogan "Je suis Charlie" that became a popular way of showing support of French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo following the attack by Islamist terrorists of its Paris office and the killing of 12 people including cartoonists, journalists, staff and two police officers on 7 January 2015

#jesuisCharlie

Punk Rock Vegan Movie (2023) | Teaser YouTube video by Moby

Rattrapé mon retard sur ce docu signé Moby qui donne envie de manger du punk vegan et de devenir hardcore, ou l'inverse. Avec Ian Mackaye, Steve Ignorant de Crass, Captain Sensible et bien d'autres.

Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan & James McNew @dumpland.bsky.social - Little Black Egg aka Yo La Tengo - Café OTO, London - 30/11/2024

a sunset timelapse photo of a landscape with a dramatic murmuration of starlings

Starling murmurations from Dr. Kathryn Cooper

I wasn’t expecting to like the much-hyped Anastasia Samoylova show as much as I did. Beautifully curated at Saatchi Gallery, many of the images focus on climate anxiety in her adopted home state, Florida.

Great to see Nada Surf in top form last night at Islington Assembly Hall in London. Hats off to Matthew, Daniel, Ira and Louie!

"For creators, the only way to avoid pitfalls associated with investors is to own your own platforms."
Another must read by @davetroy.com 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Photographer and drummer Joe Dilworth in conversation with Jeff Barrett for the launch of the excellent book 'Everything, All At Once Forever' tonight at The Social
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‘We didn’t intend to create outrage’: Huggy Bear on radical politics, riot grrrl – and causing chaos on live TV They said they’d exist for three years, then split. And that’s what the British punks did, winning love and notoriety for their feminist, queer worldview. Thirty years on, a new book tells their story

On Huggy Bear - “We defined ourselves by what we loved, and also what we hated and despised,” says Rowley. “Our ethics were from left-field feminism, queer politics, situationism. We wanted to carve away all we found terrible and corrupting.”
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1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

Hi Bluesky! We've created a (constantly-growing) starter pack for you rounding up all the Quietus editors, writers and contributors who've made the move over here.

Go on - give everyone a mass-follow!

go.bsky.app/i6DSod

Everything Is Recorded - Porcupine Tattoo (ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan) (Visualiser) YouTube video by Everything Is Recorded

Watching the new video for Everything is Recorded new single ‘Porcupine Tattoo ft. Noah Cyrus & Bill Callahan’
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Social Listening Platform Hangout Launches With Universal, Sony, Warner Music Backing With more than 100 million tracks, the service is "inspired by queuing up the jukebox or putting on a favorite album with friends" at a time when social media is "based on division," says CEO Joseph P...

Social music platform Hangout.fm has opened its digital doors with access to over 100 million tracks. Users can sign up, select an avatar, invite friends to their personal space, and take turns playing songs from their favorite artists in a virtual DJ booth.
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Rafael Toral - Café OTO - 23/06/2024

Guerre Ukraine-Russie : Moscou détruit la plus grande imprimerie ukrainienne, un symbole culturel A Kharkiv, des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie du pays, faisant 7 morts. La frappe, coup terrible au secteur de l’édition qui gagne en puissance depuis 2022, est emblématique d’un...

A Kharkiv des missiles russes ont touché la plus grande imprimerie d'Ukraine faisant 7 morts. Cette frappe intervient 90 ans après l’exécution en 1934 de 33 écrivains de Kharkiv symboles de la «Renaissance» de la littérature ukrainienne. via @stefsiohan.bsky.social
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poster of the movie Evil Does Not Exist showing little girl in blue coat turning her back in snowy forest

Evil Does Not Exist
written and directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
(wonderful) music by Eiko Ishibashi

Black and white Japanese poster for the movie Opus featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto playing the piano

Ars longa, vita brevis.

‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early days

‘It was like we’d signed up for a cult’: the weird, wild world of Butthole Surfers.
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Cela montre a posteriori l'intérêt, voire l'urgence, d'inscrire dans la Constitution la liberté des femmes de recourir à l'IVG.

France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right A woman’s right to an abortion will be enshrined in the French Constitution after lawmakers approved a bill during a historic session of parliament.

“It only takes a moment for everything we thought that we have achieved to fade away.”
France becomes the only country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right. ✌🏻

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