Rotaug.com: Latest News http://www.rotaug.com/ Latest News en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights Reserved TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:27:00 +0200 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Rumble in the Park 2009 - Review 1 http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/07/01/rumble_in_the_park_2009_review_1/index.html

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Courtesy of Rotaugs super friend Didah comes the first little vid of this...

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Courtesy of Rotaugs super friend Didah comes the first little vid of this years Rumble in the Park - Skatecontest. More vids, pics and stuff comin soon...

]]> Respect Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:27:00 +0200 sonar 2009 diary http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/06/26/sonar_2009_diary/index.html last week the Sonar festival 2009 took place in barcelona. the most obvious trend to observe... last week the Sonar festival 2009 took place in barcelona. the most obvious trend to observe was that there are much more live performances going on rather than simply djing, so lets summarize. Day 1 featured Tim Exile with a show entitled "we are the robots", where the musician was accompanied by an essemble of 4 robotic instruments.(video) later that day we watched french experimental hiphop producer Debruit who is also worth mentioning for his fine cut-up sound.

the second day got interesting when viennas Dorian Concept rocked the stage and got wobbly with Bombsquad (listern here) who in my opinion played the best dubstep-set at sonar... and it got really interesting when Ryoichi Kurokawa (video) performed an eclectic audio/visual show using four laptops.

the third and last day was one of the electronic performers. The Raster Noton showcase, featuring SND, Byetone, Atom™ and especially Alva Noto, who performed using a gigantic audiovisual live patch(max msp or homebrew i guess), was nothing less than cutting edge (video1-interface / video2). Furthermore you should check the sound of Lukid, who kept the dub-heads knodding in the dome.

At night the Animal Collective turned the stage into a big playground and brought psychedelic overkill. Followed by Beardyman (video), whose very unique way of performing is worth watching. Props also to Sinden form the UK for bringing some oldskool jungle to the sonar night.

listen:
dorian concept - sonar set
debruit - sonar set
lukid - sonar set

peaceout

]]> News Events & Party Tech: Sound Tech: Video Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:12:00 +0200 Returning The New Stuff http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/06/19/returning_the_new_stuff/index.html Before we're heading right into the weekend, I want to inform you about a new free mixtape/album... Before we're heading right into the weekend, I want to inform you about a new free mixtape/album download straying around on the holy www. It's kinda hard these days with stuff labeled "for free" because lots of music you can get a hold of like this isn't even worth the disk space - apart from a few gems in between, which can be quite hard to pick out.

This is one of these gems in my opinion, an album preview of Return of the New which is due to be released this Summer, mixed by DJ Itch13 and hosted by Othello. It's the (well kinda) debut release of Chicago based crew 1773 (Seventeen Seventy-Three) which was formed in 2004, consisting of members Wisdm O.N.E., Just J and Moral One featuring great underground trueschool music with production by Ohmega Watts (check out the lead single It's On Again here!), Othello and many more. Nuff said about this one, head over to the 1773 Blog to get it and enjoy your weekend. Peace.

]]> Records Tunes Artists Goodies Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:25:00 +0200 summer of photography - vienna http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/06/10/summer_of_photography_vienna/index.html if you're interested in art and especially photography there is something interesting happening... if you're interested in art and especially photography there is something interesting happening over the next months; the "summer of photography" organized by kunsthalle wien in cooperation with eikon magazine starts today with a talk and discussion about "surfaces and depths" by thomas ruff - wellknown photographer and prominent graduate of the famous school of bernd and hilla becher - at 7pm.

below you find the whole program of exhibitions and talks as a pdf. that whole thing started with the exhibition of thomas ruff in "halle1" (may 21st - september 13th), ending with a show on portrait - photography as stage; robert mapplethorpe to nan goldin in "halle2" (july 3rd - october 31st). check the pdf for talks, discussions, ... might be interesting for the one or other. best, lens

download diskursfolder (german)

]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:39:00 +0200 THE "WE ARE BACK UP"-DATE http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/06/08/the_we_are_back_up_date/index.html Yo! As you might have noticed already, over the last couple of days your rotaug.com experience... Yo!

As you might have noticed already, over the last couple of days your rotaug.com experience might not have been as joyful as usual since we had some trouble with our server. But thanks to Rotaug's own mighty Berserka and Willi from Typoheads we're back online again with lots of info coming your way. Watch out!

The Vertual Vertigo Europe Tour, which started last Friday at Café Strom, Linz (Thx to Flip...) has reached a peak last Saturday in Innbruck with a great lineup and a incredible partycrowd! Thanks go out to Albi, Monomassive, Mosch and the rest of the crews for having us and Amewu, Wisdom and especially DJ Werd for their gifted life performance and for sharing the stage with us. It's been a BLAST!

But it's not over yet. The Tour continues TODAY Monday, June 8th at Café Leopold, MQ Vienna at 22:00 with FREE entry! So come bring a couple of friends if you want to enjoy a monday night like no other before...

After the Austria shows, we will be heading up to Berlin to perform at the official Vertual Vertigo "Sparkies Bungalow" CD Release party alongside Berlin based producer 8bit on Wednesday, June 10th.

Last but not least, Sonido Ojo Rojo has been hard at work too with 2 new releases coming up this summer: Hart & Zart 12" by Obahuba and Illuminate feat. 215 The Freshest Kidz 7" by DJ Kompact. Go check it out at our Release Page.

That's about all for now, stay tuned for media documenting the tour soon!


Peace out 

Kompact

]]> News Release Events & Party Announcement Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:51:00 +0200 You poor fool! Wait till you see those goddamn bats http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/05/27/you_poor_fool_wait_till_you_see_those_goddamn_bats/index.html American artist J.R. Baldwin created a board game inspired by the novel “Fear and Loathing in Las... American artist J.R. Baldwin created a board game inspired by the novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson.
The game suitcase consists all kinds of "ingredients", dosecards, activities & challenges like "program the dvd or vcr player" :D
& of course: it is a edition of 1 but... still available at the moment.

links:
project site
found @ the very interesting laughingsquid

]]> Strictly Bullshit Projects Goodies Wed, 27 May 2009 00:54:00 +0200 contest-season is on again! http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/05/26/contest_season_is_on_again/index.html ]]> Events & Party Tue, 26 May 2009 13:16:00 +0200 A little peek into asian village http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/05/25/a_little_peek_into_asian_village/index.html Some of you might have been there this weekend, Lens mentioned it in an earlier post: Into The City... Some of you might have been there this weekend, Lens mentioned it in an earlier post: Into The City / Asian Village as part of the Wiener Festwochen going from 8th of may til 14th of June.

Here are some of my personal impressions:

I started my little tour on Saturday, May 23rd with a delicious snack from one of the street kitchens hosted by the Thai and Indonesian embassies at Gumpendorfer Straße in the 6th district (which was the center of asian village and closed down for automobiles the whole weekend).
At about 7pm I went to Semper Depot to see/hear a sound/dance performance by Singapur artists sonicbrat (sound), Lim Chin Huat (Motion) and Lim Woan Wen (Light). The show, which lasted about an hour featured a dark light setting with multichannel sound art / piano improvisations and a dance performance. The combination of the three worked quite well in my opinion, although I'm not much of a fan of lenghty and dreamy piano variations. That aside the performance was a success, especially the middle part, where resonances of space were fathomed out, and the ending with its unique lighting, almost turning the poles of semper depot into some kind of dark forest.
After that we went out on the street again to hear a performance by Stereotyp, Cee and AraByrd from Malaysia which was a defintive banger and got the street crowd moving pretty intense. Ranging from Dubstep to Techno to HipHop, Stereo and Cee broke genre borders once again and AraByrd found an answer to every one of their tracks.

Now to my sunday highlight which started at noon, also at Semper Depot. Some of you might have seen Daito Manabes YouTube videos already, yesterday he held a 20 minute performance with a colleague which was quite impressive to see live be honest. Called "Face Visualizer, Instrument and Copy" they hooked themselves up to electrodes which stimulate their facial muscles according to the sounds played. Here's my own short documentation, taken from the middle of the show (Daito is the guy on the right):

That's all from my side, after the performance I went out to enjoy a wonderfully sunny Vienna City sunday. Lens J. might hit you up with a more precise update this week. Stay tuned!

]]> Events & Party Records Tunes Artists Nerd Stuff Mon, 25 May 2009 11:20:00 +0200 Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/05/19/coded_cultures_exploring_creative_emergences/index.html From May 27th - 31th the festival Coded Cultures, presented by artist group 5uper, is taking place... From May 27th - 31th the festival Coded Cultures, presented by artist group 5uper, is taking place in Vienna. 

Here is a short excerpt from the festival description from the website:

The second edition of CODED CULTURES is a binational festival (Austria – Japan) in the year 2009 to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related arts, focusing on Japan and Europe. The festival is part of the official »Austria – Japan Year 2009«.


Check their website for more info and schedule: http://www.codedcultures.com

 

]]> Events & Party Nerd Stuff Tue, 19 May 2009 18:43:00 +0200 And while we're at... http://www.rotaug.com/blog/post/date/2009/05/19/and_while_were_at/index.html ... pointing out corporate bigwhig misdemeanor (see my last post), here's another... ... pointing out corporate bigwhig misdemeanor (see my last post), here's another example: 

Sony Pictures CEO Howard Stringer supposedly hates the internet for reasons beyond our imagination as you can read in an article over at cnet.

... no comment |-(

]]> Politics Tue, 19 May 2009 13:04:00 +0200