Timothy Leary Interviews Billy Idol :: CYBERPUNK

Timothy Leary interviews Billy Idol on ABC In Concert from 1993 as part of promoting Idol's Cyberpunk album. Timothy Leary and Billy Idol see "cyber" as a way for people to know significantly more about how the world works, and then later subvert oppression.

Billy Idol discusses a small amount of the technology behind the Cyberpunk album. He notes about how it was completely produced on a computer. Timothy Leary sees Billy as "Creating his own reality."

Also included in the video below are The Ramones and Television and Joey Ramone is the moderator.

WATCH or DOWNLOAD it here (via archive.org) 23 min video off tape, it's a little screwed up, probably watched too much before they ripped it. Also the commercials are dead air.

The Doors Live Hollywood Bowl 1968

01. Tim McIntire (Announcer)
02. When The Music's Over
03. Alabama Song
04. Back Door Man
05. Five to One
06. Back Door Man (Repr.)
07. Hello, I Love You
08. Moonlight Drive
09. A Little Game
10. Spanish Caravan
11. Wake Up! (cut)
12. Light My Fire
13. Unknown Soldier
14. The End ("Mr. Light Man" -- The Accident -- Ode To A Grasshopper -- Ensenada)



More Doors from (1967 to) 1969
Interviews with the 3 remaining Doors split with live concert footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6-4rg2sAQ0
2 hour documentary from Soundstage Performances

Bob Marley & the Wailers Live at the Festival of Unity

Amandla Concert: 7-21-1979, benefit concert for relief and humanitarian aid to South Africa.

Announcer is Dick Gregory (this guy is great talks about the Three Mile Island nuke leak, Leon Spinks and more).
The Wailers start at around minute 18.



01. Positive Vibration
02. Slave Driver
03. Them Belly Full
04. Runnin Away
05. Crazy Baldhead
06. The Heathen
07. War
08. No More Trouble
09. Lively Up Yourself
10. No Woman No Cry
11. Jammin
12. Get Up Stand Up
13. Exodus
14. Zimbabwe
15. Wake Up & Live

Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet

Full documentary from the BBC4


Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of earthly and interplanetary music, most notably with his fervently loyal Arkestra.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a few documentary films, notably Robert Mugge's 'A Joyful Noise' (1980), which interspersed performances and rehearsals with Sun Ra's commentary on various subjects ranging from today's youth to his own place in the cosmos.

Today's documentary, Don Letts' 'Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet' from 2005, reuses some of Mugge's material and includes some additional interviews.

Patti Smith: last concert @ CBGB

Patti Smith playing the final night at CBGB on October 15, 2006.
Five songs from a three hour show.

- Piss Factory
- Pale Blue Eyes
- Birdland
- Rock N Roll Nigga
- Gloria



http://www.pattismith.net/
http://unartignyc.com/

Jimi Hendrix Maui 1970 Full Raibow Bridge Concert

Jimi Hendrix 07-30-1970
Raibow Bridge Concert Maui, Hawaii, USA

Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of conversation between Pat Hartley, Wein and Hendrix.

Sound (SoundCloud advertorial)

We love sound. Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world.

Unsound Festival 2011

Obsessed with sound? Try the Unsound Festival. Also check the videos from 2010 in the right-hand column.
LINK to Future-shock
LINK to homepage 2011

Nik Nowak vs Ultramoodem

Born in Mainz, Germany, Nik Nowak's work is in electronic music installations. A series of different ‘Mobile Booster’ carry flexible sound-systems/ The latest is called "Panzer" (tank): LINK to homepage

John Cage about Silence

Kant's thesis was that music and laughter bypass thought processes while eliciting instant physiological effects. And that, not because "they don't mean anything" but because, due to the nature of the aesthetic ideas they embody, music and laughter don't need to be first analyzed in order to have an effect.

Here is what Kant actually said: "But as the play of chance is not one that is beautiful, we will here lay it aside. Music, on the contrary, and what provokes laughter are two kinds of play with aesthetic ideas, or even with representations of the understanding, by which, all said and done, nothing is thought. By mere force of change they yet are able to afford lively gratification. This furnishes pretty clear evidence that the quickening effect of both is physical, despite its being excited by ideas of the mind." (source)

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and singer whose best known work is perhaps "The Revolution Will Not be Televised," died May 27, 2011 at the age of 62. He had collaborated with musician Brian Jackson, created musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, and used rapping and melismatic vocal styles. His lyrics exposed social and political issues (see below the 4 documentary videos).





BBC Four: Part 1


BBC Four: Part 2


BBC Four: Part 3


BBC Four: Part 4



The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

Below is an image collage with Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Sun Ra and His Arkestra

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets." --Sun Ra, Jazz musician (May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993)

The dialogue in the video at the beginning is in French, but it is very short.


DirectLink to video

TV on the Radio: Nine Types Of Light (movie)

"Nine Types of Light by TV on the Radio is as much an album as it is a movie," states their website. "The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. TV on the Radio personally asked their friends and the filmmakers to help direct the music videos.

"Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future. Tunde also directed the music video for Forgotten."
TV on the Radio homepage



or click HERE to access the YouTube directlink

Christian Marclay

"I started as a visual artist. I studied art in Switzerland where I grew up and came to the United States in 1977, to the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. That is where I began to get interested in performance art, and it was through this interest that I started to play music."

Happy Holidays

Click on the picture above to see a frame of the art in the video bigger and more detailed.



With all the best wishes from HU ART SOUND, may what you need be in your heart and present in the moment -- every moment.

Stephen Wolfram (Computing a theory of everything)

How can one really get to understand language? Stephen Wolfram's aim to understand the universe around us through computation has created some interesting art related themes.




More images HERE

To access the mentioned music link in the video click HERE



For playing with demos click HERE


Or click HERE for direct access to the TED video.

Yann Novak, sound artist

"Each of my works is an investigation into presentation, composition and perception, not just to be heard, but to be felt. By creating situations the audience can relate to, a hybrid state is created, existing somewhere between my own personal history and that of the audience." --Yann Novak




Yann Novak is a sound artist and composer based in Los Angeles.
Homepage
MySpace
Facebook profile

Yann Novak - Relocation Immersion

LINK to video above
Other Novak Vimeo video posts

I Heart Radio

LINK to I Heart Radio which has over 750 radio stations. You can download an app to have it play on your Android, BlackBerry, iTouch/Pod/Pad. Or you can play it on your computer. At the moment it's to only way you can listen to CBGB Radio (see link below)


CBGB's direct LINK since it's not that easy on IHR (click on the arrow in the window on the right to play it)

CBGB's bathroom (source: eastvillageradio)

Zs

Zs was founded in 2000 and is Sam Hillmer (tenor saxophone), Ben Greenberg (electric guitar), Tony Lowe (electric guitar), and Ian Antonio (drum set). While Zs' music has been variously categorized as no-wave, noise, and post-minimalist, it is primarily concerned with making music that challenges the physical and mental limitations of both performer and listener. Manipulating extended technique, unique instrumental synthesis, and near telepathic communication, Zs aims to create works that envelop the listener and unfold sonically over time, evoking unspoken past, present, and future rites and ritual. (source)



Zs live session recorded Wednesday March 17 2010, in a backyard in Austin, TX


More HERE

Taken by Storm - The Art of Storm Thorgerson

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The guy who designed 80% of your record collection:

Storm Thorgerson began his career as part of Hipgnosis before establishing himself in his own right. Creating visually beautiful and thought-provoking art, he is responsible for the iconic images associated with bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Cranberries, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel, and 10cc, amongst others. As a result, since the 1970s his work has become synonymous with identifying pop culture.

The distinctive and edgy style of Thorgerson’s art has an element of "performance" to it. In essence, he visualizes his concept, creates the imaginative scene, and then captures it through the use of photography. In other words, his ‘temporary installation’ is caught on camera and then it is gone, leaving behind a photograph as the only evidence of its occurrence. It is these images that have graced album covers by the likes of Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, Division Bell), The Cranberries (Bury the Hatchet), and Led Zeppelin (Houses of the Holy).

Thorgerson seems to take joy in engaging his audience and provoking a reaction — is it reality or is it fantasy? — and though many come to know his images before they know the artist, his work consistently strikes a chord in its viewers. In an age of digital technology, it is hard to believe that the metal heads featured on Division Bell were physically produced and not computer generated, or that the man in Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here was actually set alight.

Thorgerson has said, "I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not? I use real elements in unreal ways. Is the man really on fire? Why would he just be standing there? Who put the beds on the beach? Why? Why is there a cow on the cover? It doesn’t have anything to do with the album, or does it? A boxer dog in designer boxer shorts on a beach."

The exhibition is a retrospective of Thorgerson’s art, the beauty of which is realized with maximum impact due to the spaciousness of the gallery in which it is being shown. In addition to the limited edition signed prints, the original stain glass window with the Dark Side of the Moon image is also featured as are the spheres that were designed specifically for last year’s Pink Floyd-themed exhibition in Paris. In fact, this is Thorgerson’s first public appearance and showing of his work since suffering a stroke shortly after that event, and despite his ill health, he has continued to create interesting images. In essence, Thorgerson is a character who demands nothing but the best in his work and in those who work alongside him. The results speak for themselves. (source)



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Storm Thorgerson homepage

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