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Cadenza boss Luciano revealed his Æther live performance project at Spain’s Monegros festival on 18th July, a project that is being billed as a “synchronization of sound and colour”. In this video you can see Luciano conducting his laptop symphony from the centre, with his back to the audience like a classical music conductor would guide an orchestra. Cadenza label mates Reboot, Mirko Loco, Lee Van Dowski, and Digitaline throw in sounds and percussion from their laptops using Ableton Live, whilst Luciano controls the incoming sounds via a touchscreen computer and what appears to be a Native Instruments Maschine, ultimately deciding what gets through.

Brand new crashroots video mashup for Samim and Miguel Toro´s Cachaopeople! Over 40 youtube videos mashed in this clip! Video created by Samim & Shirin K.A.Winiger.

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Sound designer Diego Stocco (producer for Spectrasonics) creates dynamic and innovative music experiences. His music extensively uses unique sounds created specifically for each project through custom built instruments and techniques, allowing him to produce eclectic compositions with sounds never heard before. Diego recently posted a new musical piece, created on a tree. Read more here.

A short film featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John Cage and David Tudor among others. Directed by Dick Fontaine. Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3

Due to popular demand, here is a video we made a year ago as promotion for the “heater hater club”: The place for everybody how loves or hates my song “heater”. Its still deeply disturbing to watch this, enjoy

Here is brand new crashroots video mashup for miguel toro and samim´s  re-mushed, squashed and hyper-customized african dance rhythm “20Points“. This is totally amazing, there are over 150 videos mashed in this clip!!! Video created by Shirin K.A.Winiger from 8oinks.com.

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Here is our second crashroots video mashup for miguel toro and samim´s classic latincontra psychedelic land rework “Se me olvido el delay“. Video created by Shirin K.A.Winiger from 8oinks.com.

We are proud to present the first crashroots video mashup for argenis brito´s brilliant ballroom dance hit Paisto tun tun. Video created by Shirin K.A.Winiger from 8oinks.com, thank you very much!

Music Video For “The One” Directed by Rik Cordero from Slaughterhouse.Featuring members Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, Royce Da 5′9 & Joe Budden.

James Boyle, is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He is also the author of the brilliant book “The Public Domain”, and in this Google Zeitgeist 2008 video he does a great job explaining why we tend to favor anything but Openness, and why copyright as we know it is turning 1.3 Billion Internet users into perpetual infringers. Read more at MediaFuturist.com

It’s time to add “music video production” to the list of industries the iPhone threatens to disrupt. Read the full blog post at wired.com

CCMixter is a great site and a pioneer in the music 2.0 arena.

This music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam. Director: Masashi Kawamura + Hal Kirkland + Magico Nakamura + Masayoshi Nakamura

SOUR official site: http://sour-web.com

http://www.ted.com At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. via Gerd Leonhard

The US r´n´b and hiphop scene is now doing total trance house shit.

Here is a a great speech by Cris Anderson (Wired mag founder and author of “the long tail) on the new emerging market of free goods. In this speech he is outlining the ideas he puts forward in his new book. (via mediafuturist)

Clay Shirky discussing the implications and impact of wikipedia.

Over 2,000 people of all ages downloaded the same mp3, pressed play at the same time, and had a blast together. This years event took place on Roosevelt Island, a thin strip of land in the middle of the East River.

found this via wiretotheear.

Morphine was an alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1989. The band ceased to be in 1999 after frontman Mark Sandman died of a heart attack. Read more about them on wikipedia. The songs mashed up are: - Like a Mirror / You speak my language / Honey white.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as “Lady Ella”, the “Queen of Scat” and the “First Lady of Song”, is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century. Read more at wikipedia.