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birne@diaspora.psyco.fr
Birne Helene

From the favourite blog of mine:

The internet and the overmind

[...] how the Neanderthals died out. They had been around for at least half a million years before H. sapiens showed up. “Over just a few thousand years after modern humans moved into Europe, Neanderthal numbers dwindled to the point of extinction,” the Smithsonian Institute tells us. “All traces of Neanderthals disappeared by about 40,000 years ago.” It may be facile of me to talk about coffee shop decor coordination in the same breath as the extinction of Neanderthals, but the fact remains: there is a hard line between people who remember what it was like not to be plugged unceasingly into the Feed, to have their own lives, and those for whom there is the algorithm.

#LWON #SallyAdee #Internet #Civilisation #DavidBowie #ArthurCClarke

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andre_wemans@diaspora.glasswings.com
Andre

#music #davidbowie

David Bowie - Five Years

"Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in (cry in)

News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying (lying)

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there

And all the fat, skinny people
And all the tall, short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't have pulled her off
I think she would have killed them

A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour
Drinking milkshakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got

We've got five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, that's all we've got

Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years"

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bliter@diaspora-fr.org
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#CosmicTrip - La #musique à la #conquête de l' #espace | #ARTE

De #SunRa à #DaftPunk, en passant par #PinkFloyd et #DavidBowie, l’ #odyssée littéralement inouïe des #musiciens qui ont fait décoller la #pop vers des dimensions #galactiques et #futuristes. Une téléportation joyeuse et riche en archives.

Le #cosmos, c'est le monde du silence absolu, le vide #intersidéral. Pourtant, depuis toujours ou presque, des musiciens lui ont fantasmé une #bande-son. Au XXe siècle, en parallèle de la conquête spatiale, des #artistes souvent #iconoclastes, des #inventeurs fous et des #visionnaires assoiffés d' #évasion entreprennent leurs propres #quêtes #musico-stellaires : #LéonTheremin, Sun Ra, Pink Floyd, David #Bowie, #Funkadelic, #KlausSchulze, Daft Punk et beaucoup d'autres. À la #recherche de nouvelles #esthétiques, comme le #psychédélisme, ils veulent s’affranchir des pesanteurs terrestres pour exorciser la réalité, programme plus #politique qu’il n’y paraît. Pourquoi des #musiciens noirs des décennies 1950 et 1960, ou #allemands des #seventies, désirent-ils tant se projeter dans l' #espace ?

#Galaxies #soniques

Embarqué dans un #vaisseau digne de #StarTrek, le #spectateur traverse les #époques et les galaxies musicales à la rencontre de #créateurs #poétiques et de leurs #sons inouïs, de #PierreSchaeffer à #Kraftwerk, de Can aux #SilverApples. Ponctué par les #analyses de #musicologues et d' #artistes ( Jean-Michel #Jarre, #Stereolab, #Jean-BenoîtDunckel, du groupe Air, #TimBlake de #Hawkwind), le #voyage répertorie aussi les #révolutions #technologiques qui ont porté la #space #music, l’ #afrofuturisme, le #krautrock, l’ #ambient... Dans ce #documentaire #ludique et (très) haut en couleur, Christophe Conte et Gaëtan Chataigner (ancien des Little Rabbits) retracent par le biais d'archives stupéfiantes et parfois drolatiques un pan méconnu de la pop #culture, qui aura irrigué tous les genres, des #musiques #expérimentales au #disco en passant par le #dub, le #rap et la #techno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wmnHtPH97g

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