Stoffel and I have just released my new album on Der kleine grüne Würfel. There’s not much more to say here, as almost everything is said over here. I am looking forward to hear how people like it.
Update, 18 May 2012
Thanks so much for all the positive feedback that reached so far via Facebook, Twitter and comments over at the release page. Here’s a nice interview with Mo. from phlow magazine (in german though).
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Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.
Liebesengel (‘Angels of Love’, see earlier post & download here) is a track by my 7-year old daughter and myself. It was featured on today’s episode of Quiet Space (Webpage – Audiostream), a nightly radio show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National.
Beyond ‘ambient’, the music of the Quiet Space incorporates 20th century composition, blissful pop and ethereal drones. It is music to reflect and relax to – a soundscape to in which to lose yourself.
(Text & image Source: ABC Radio National)
Quiet Space is curated and presented by Paul Gough.
Update, 1 May 2012, 15:21
Here we go! Storyboard ready, slideshow ready, moderation ready, checked-in for my flight. Can’t wait to see you all at #RP12: My colleagues and session guests (see below), Andreas Schepers & many other friends, mates & colleagues such as FC Stoffel, Mo. Sauer, Sim Sullen, Katti and lots of other people I’ve been communicating frequently with over social networks in past years, but whom I actually haven’t met yet in person … hope two days will be enough & see you soon!
On 2 May 2012, I will take part in a session at re:publica Berlin on behalf of DLR. re:publica is Germany’s largest and most prominent conference on the future of society and all things digital.
Via the re:publica call for papers I initiated a panel discussion titled ‘Tweeting from space for the digital public’. It will feature ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Paolo Nespoli, as well as my dear colleagues Jocelyne Landeau-Constantin, Head of ESA-ESOC Communication Office and Bob Jacobs, NASA Deputy Associate Administrator of Communications, and myself.
During the 60 Minute session, we will discuss why space agencies and their astronauts blog and tweet (sometimes even from Space), how it all works and why the intense use of social media has become an important part of the respective communication strategies.
What started off as a ‘class reunion’ of bloggers, researchers and internet activists, now regularly attracts over 3000 participants: As a result of last year’s full house at ‘Friedrichstadtpalast’, this year’s re:publica will bring participants together at Station Berlin. Even so, the conference has preserved an open and familiar atmosphere. “A quality conference with a festival feel”, in the words of the organisers.
This year, as well as in 2011, re:publica features a great variety of interesting speakers, such as Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital agenda, Steffen Seibert, the German government’s spokesperson, renowned podcaster Tim Pritlove, blogger, author and consultant Sascha Lobo, Mercedes Bunz, Mario Sixtus and many, many more.
Further information on panel and speakers can be found at http://re-publica.de/12/en/
This is a cross-post with the DLR Communications Blog.
P.S.: I forget to mention that our session will take place in the evening of 2 May 2012, 19.00 to 20.00 CEST. and that, according to re:publica, these late events can be accessed by the general public for a fee of just a few euros. Currently, re:publica organisers are checking whether these late events can be made accessible for the general public at small fee. Full conference tickets (3 days, over 200 hours of programme) are available here for 130 Euro.
For the sake of completeness, here follows a couple of postings on other – mostly job-related – channels:
Creative Commons: the ‘Everyone licence’ and DLR’s content
(DLR Blogs, 1 March 2012)
Space Tweetup in numbers
((DLR Blogs, 3 April 2012)
ATVTweetup 28/29 March 2012, Toulouse, France
(a quick and dirty video I shot and edited with an iPad during ATVTweetup, featuring one of my tracks as score)
Two much better and more professional videos can be found here …
… and here:
I’ve just uploaded a new mix: Kind of Indietronic, Indiepop, Indierock, Experimental. C90-style this first part is 48 mins long, second part to follow sometime soon. Enjoy listening.
My friend Paul Gough, perhaps better known under his recording name Pimmon, is coming a long way from Sydney, Australia, for his second european tour after almost ten years. Here’s his tour schedule so far:
On most shows, Paul aka Pimmon will play with some other great artists, e.g.
Paul’s Tour starts in England at a small village called Cragg Vale. The venue sounds as if it’s perfectly suited for his experimental, sometimes ambient, sometimes droney soundscapes: According to Hibernate Records it’s a Baptist church called St John’s in the Wildnerness.
Time to listen to some Pimmon music:
Vovul II (7″, Static Caravan, 1999)
(still one of my Pimmon all-time favs)
Yicco (from “The Oansome Orbit”, Room40, 2011)
(I’d love to also provide the track ‘frosty pink’ here, but neither do I find a source on the web to embed , nor do I own the (great) Snaps, Crackles, Pops album on Tigerbeat6. In case anybody has an advice please post it in the comments section.)
Besides being a nice chap and a musician, Paul is an audio engineer working for ABC Radio National in Sydney where he also hosts Quiet Space, a programme focussing on experimental electronic music from ambient to drones to blissful pop. More on that in one my next postings.
This is part 1 of a new series focusing on Music for Children and grown-ups. There is a lot of good pieces out there which are not allegedly produced for children by adults (and which in reality are often just plain nerve-racking), but which actually are perfectly suited for both parents and children. Unfortunately for my (potential) non-german readers the first recommendation is a german song:
‘Der Apfelmann’ is part of Blumfeld’s (concept) album ‘Verbotene Früchte’, but it works perfectly without the intellectual claims and is one very nice ‘happy song’ to sing along with your children young and old.
Credit: Sony/Columbia
The video above shows Blumfeld playing one of their last shows ever (presumably at 29 April 2007 at Postbahnhof Berlin.
I recorded this track with my daughter. She played piano and drums, I played the Cello track and arranged the piece.
We like the result a lot – and hope you do so too. Let us know & please share the track (it’s licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA). It’s called ‘Liebesengel’ (‘Angels of Love’).