Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Ennio Morricone Now Composing Ringtones for LG

When film fans hear the word “composer,” we immediately think of a film composer. Maybe our minds even drift to some of our favorite scores by the likes of John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer or Jerry Goldsmith. When that happens, it’s easy to forget that a composer can write music for things other than movies.
So in an age where almost everyone’s life is run through their cell phone, it makes almost perfect sense that a great film composer is going to the digital medium. Ennio Morricone, the legendary Italian composer who has written scores for hundreds of films including Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly as well as The Untouchables, has signed a deal with LG to not only write brand new music for ringtones on their upcoming smart phones, but allow those phones to exclusively play some of his most famous themes...

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Germain Lussier @'/Film'

BrandDNA Mick Karn and Gerry Rafferty have died. The band up in heaven now has one a helluva bassist, plus the man who wrote my fave song Late Again. 32 minutes ago via web

Fennesz + The Sight Below (Live)

Live at Decibel Festival

Live at Interferenze Festival

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

WikiLeaks: It IS the Bank of America

"At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive's hard drives," he said. "Now how do we present that? It's a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it."

Julian Assange (October 2009)
Via @jayrosen_nyu 's link

Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet

Def Leppard Tribute Band Seeks One-Armed Drummer

Evgeny Morozov:

Freedom.gov

Hope springs e-ternal

Nerd Violence

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance

Carrier Wave Phase

Carrier Wave Phase by ph0n0n

From the last live Ph0n0n show of last year (at Seattle’s Pillow Full of Drone on December 12, 2010), our first publicly available track of the new year, for any who might be interested.