Saturday, 12 January 2013
Delia Derbyshire Day 2013
Delia Derbyshire Day 2013 will be the first of
its kind. It will be a day to celebrate and highlight the fascinating
work of Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), the pioneering electronic music
composer who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is most famous
for realising the original Dr Who theme in 1963.
Delia Derbyshire Day will be taking place on Saturday 12 January 2013
at Manchester’s renowned music venue Band on the Wall (Best
Entertainment Venue at Manchester Tourism Awards 2012). 2013 will be the
Dr Who 50th Anniversary and therefore of Delia Derbyshire's iconic
original theme, so this event will launch the celebrations. Awarded funding from the Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation and Quebec Arts Council, this project involves three new music-based commissions, the Delia Derbyshire Day event and a Northern England mini-tour.
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Friday, 11 January 2013
Australia 2013
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Irvine Welsh on ‘Scottish Independence and British Unity’
Therefore I’m advancing another proposition: political separation could promote the cultural unity that the UK state, in its current form, with its notions of ‘assumed Englishness’ is constantly undermining. Despite the shallow flag-waving social engineers in Government and sections of the media, who tried to turn it into a bread and circuses propaganda event, the Olympics were the best expression of inclusive Britishness we’ve had for decades. (The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, despite massive media hype and the pathetic efforts of a few unionist Labour councils, still amounted to an inconsequential joke in Scotland.) Danny Boyle, in a couple of hours, did more to assert democratic socialist values over neo-liberalism than the UK Labour Party has managed to do in almost forty years. But it was also nostalgic; it mirrored not just what many of us still aspire to, it showed us what we have to accept we’ve irredeemably lost. But I cheered just as ecstatically when Brad Wiggins crossed the line as when Chris Hoy did, and plenty other Scots I know did too. So post UK, why not, for example, just keep the British Olympic team?
If we rid ourselves of the political imperialist baggage of the UK state, new possibilities emerge. For example, it would become feasible for Ireland, as an established sovereign nation, to see itself as part of a shared geographical and cultural entity. This, in turn, brings potential opportunities for the continued development of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The idea of the political independence of England and Scotland leading to conflict, hatred and distrust is the mindset of opportunistic status-quo fearmongers and gloomy nationalist fantasists stuck in a Bannockburn-Culloden timewarp, and deeply insulting to the people of both countries. Swedes, Norwegians and Danes remain on amicable terms; they trade, co-operate and visit each other socially any time they like. They don’t need a pompous, blustering state called Scandinavia, informing them from Stockholm how wonderful they all are, but (kind of) only really meaning Sweden...
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Cathy Berberian
Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an
American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde
music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp Zu Eulenburg, The Beatles, folk songs from Armenia, also by the musical analyst Komitas Vartabed, and her own compositions. Her best known work is Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia)...
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Quentin Tarantino: 'I'm shutting your butt down!'
Quentin Tarantino refuses to discuss any link between movie violence and
real life violence during a heated interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
about his latest film Django Unchained
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Kurdish activists shot dead in Paris
Three Kurdish women activists have been found dead with bullet wounds to the neck and chest in the Kurdistan information centre in Paris.
One of the women found in the early hours of Thursday was said to be Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Officials in Turkey are currently holding talks with the PKK's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade the group to disarm. The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK has killed about 40,000 people since the 1980s.
Another victim of the Paris shootings, Fidan Dogan, was part of the Kurdistan National Congress, based in Brussels. The third was a young activist.
The bodies were discovered on the first floor of the building in Paris's 10th arrondissement just before 2am after one woman's partner, concerned he could not contact her, called police.
The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, was at the scene and described the killings as intolerable and unacceptable. He said French anti-terror police would help with the inquiry. French police sources told reporters that the crime scene suggested "an execution", but the circumstances and motive remain unclear.
"The only certainty for the moment is that this is a triple homicide," a French police spokesperson told TF1 news.
French media reported a crowd of between 100 and 200 Kurdish people gathered in front of the building shouting slogans in support of the PKK.
Angelique Chrisafis @'The Guardian'
One of the women found in the early hours of Thursday was said to be Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK).
Officials in Turkey are currently holding talks with the PKK's jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to persuade the group to disarm. The decades-long conflict between the Turkish state and the PKK has killed about 40,000 people since the 1980s.
Another victim of the Paris shootings, Fidan Dogan, was part of the Kurdistan National Congress, based in Brussels. The third was a young activist.
The bodies were discovered on the first floor of the building in Paris's 10th arrondissement just before 2am after one woman's partner, concerned he could not contact her, called police.
The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, was at the scene and described the killings as intolerable and unacceptable. He said French anti-terror police would help with the inquiry. French police sources told reporters that the crime scene suggested "an execution", but the circumstances and motive remain unclear.
"The only certainty for the moment is that this is a triple homicide," a French police spokesperson told TF1 news.
French media reported a crowd of between 100 and 200 Kurdish people gathered in front of the building shouting slogans in support of the PKK.
Angelique Chrisafis @'The Guardian'
Michael Fassbender is...FRANK SIDEBOTTOM!
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