Today I found this movie on YouTube. It is pretty old now, but won an Oscar in 1963. It is the first movie Mel Brooks made and can be considered a classic.
Thinking about organisations, people, mindsets, businesses, change, added value and social media. At least it is about creative exercise. And about test- and feedback-driven development.
Cologne Commons Compilation Vol. 2
In less than four weeks our first conference and festival on free music, creative commons and new cultural markets – the Cologne Commons – will take place in Cologne (12. – 13. June 2009). It will feature an exhibition showing ten years of netlabel-culture, an conference, where media-experts and musicians from Germany will talk about the changes and chances of the ongoing cultural and technological shift. At night of this two days a full equipped festival program will showcase music-talents from all over the world, who use the internet successfully as tool and promotion platform. At least, they are good at their instruments, too!
To celebrate and to give a tribute, we released a second mp3-compilation with tracks from artists, that will play at the festival. It contains music from Rktic, Goto80, Comfort Fit, Entertainment for the Braindead, Backwater Planet and more. Be sure to check it out. Head for a listen and a download at the Cologne-Commons website. Feel free to spread the word. Little more info in English here.
Music-Experiments on YouTube seem to get more and more popular. Today mo. from Phlow gave me the link to this little experiment. In Bb 2.0 is a loose collection of various “tracks” in for of YouTube videos, that can be played in any order. The results surely are not synchronized and therefore the sounds have to be more orientated on ambient-music. The project is also connected to an open call. Here are some of the rules:
- Sing or play an instrument, in Bb major. Simple, floating textures work best, with no tempo or groove. Leave lots of silence between phrases.
– Record in a quiet environment, with as little background noise as possible.
– Wait about 5-10 seconds to start playing.
Uh, an don’t forget to use nice video-footage as well!
I somehow like the idea of extending this popular video-platform to new music-instruments, or more generally new music concepts. I am sure, that most of you are already familiar with the brilliant YouTube MashUp “Thru You” from Kutiman.
Ohh, the music from the Yellow Magic Orchestra is still magic. Even years and years later being ported to two Nintendo Korg DS-10 does not narrow anything of this eternal tunes.
Pixelgames are keeping coming. What are all this shaders, 3D-worlds and multi-user platforms worth, if you can have instant, bloated fun with games like Underworld Trip? The gameplay is most easy (walk through the level, avoid obstacles), the style pixly and “interlaced”. The soundtrack very minimal but highly functional atmospheric. There is a narrative as well, but this you better explore for yourself. Be ready for a real small-scale trip! (via)
“Us Now” is an interesting full length documentary about computer-based social technologies, trust, bottom-up and self-organisation. Finally “wisdom of the crowd” appears and all connected to the question, if we all together could govern? The leading question of the movie is: “In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?”
“New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.”
