From October 21st to 26th, Graz’s Elevate Festival once again stimulates new ways of thinking and listening through an extraordinary combination of electronic music, art and political discourse. Elevate highlights the role and importance of social movements as well as progressive initiatives in civil society and the importance of generating positive change in our society as a whole. At the same time, Elevate presents many live acts that offer fascinating odysseys into innovative worlds of sound far off the beaten path.
A meteor exploded in the atmosphere near Santa Fe, New Mexico just before 5 a.m. on the morning of July 31. Local amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft captured the event from his personal observatory using an all-sky optical video camera developed by Sandia National Laboratories that is specifically sensitive to the near infrared flashes that meteors create.
Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti talks to the folks at the Tate gallery’s video channel, TateShots as part of their six episode Sound & Vision series looking at artists whose work uses both visual art and music. Featured in forthcoming instalments will be David Byrne, Lydia Lunch and Mark E Smith amongst others.
Timeless describes moments outside of time – moments that exist so deep inside history that they break through that finite grid. Timeless: The Composer/Arranger Series compiled by Mochilla is an homage to the composer-arrangers that have influenced hip-hop in the most literal and profound ways.
Giorgio Rinolfi and Quy Sam’s performance on Castel dell’Ovo in Napoli is a tale of the city in five acts. The main characters of the work are the feelings connected to the experiences of a city like Napoli.
From the mapping of the iconic building, the performance draws an instinctive and primordial path that starts with a Heartbeat.
The EU is funding ambitious programmes to monitor human behaviour in the fight against crime and terrorism. Some people are afraid this will turn us all into suspects.
