Prank on a Belgian call center - A container at Mobistar

Bizarre - Rantala New Trio

Eurovision: Congatulations to Norway

Athens Swing Riot!

Saturday the 25th of October at Trova (Athinas 24 & Vlahava, Psiri)

Dress Code: 20's to 50's.

Free Entrance.

Oktapodi

The Hipstairs at Soul Stereo

Programmer extraordinaire Theodore Demaras will be performing with his band The Hipstairs, who are teaming up once again with the Modtown crew to deliver some tasty soul food!

Tomorrow (21/2/2008) at Soul Stereo, Evripidou 65, Psiri, Athens, Greece Doors open at 22:00. Free entrance

Musica Universalis

Musica Universalis (the movements of the celestial bodies as music)

Kepler wrote:
"The heavenly motions ... are a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time."

It is however possible to translate that which Kepler saw as only perceivable by the intellect to also be perceivable by the ear.

Whenever a soundwave is doubled or halved in frequency, it retains the 'flavour' of the original pitch. This can be applied to any periodic cycle, including the orbits of the planets (method explained:
http://homepages.tesco.net/gregskius/oe.html).

These are the duration in seconds of our star’s planets (and Pluto):
Mercury: 0.453028141, 0.906056282, 1.812112564, 3.624225128, 7.248450256, 14.49690051
Venus: 0.578586448, 1.157172895, 2.314345791, 4.628691582, 9.257383163, 18.51476633
Earth: 0.470244884, 0.940489769, 1.880979538, 3.761959076, 7.523918152, 15.0478363
Mars: 0.442216873, 0.884433746, 1.768867493, 3.537734985, 7.075469971, 14.15093994
Jupiter: 0.697366839, 1.394733678, 2.789467356, 5.578934712, 11.15786942, 22.31573885
Saturn: 0.432755629, 0.865511258, 1.731022516, 3.462045032, 6.924090064, 13.84818013
Uranus: 0.617729291, 1.235458581, 2.470917163, 4.941834326, 9.883668652, 19.7673373
Neptune: 0.605743574, 1.211487148, 2.422974297, 4.845948594, 9.691897187, 19.38379437
Pluto: 0.455707172, 0.911414343, 1.822828687, 3.645657373, 7.291314746, 14.58262949

And in hertz (cycles per second):
Mercury: 2260.345235, 1130.172618, 565.0863088, 282.5431544, 141.2715772, 70.6357886
Venus: 3539.6612, 1769.8306, 884.9153001, 442.45765, 221.228825, 110.6144125
Earth: 2177.588813, 1088.794407, 544.3972033, 272.1986017, 136.0993008, 68.04965042
Mars: 2315.605899, 1157.802949, 578.9014747, 289.4507373, 144.7253687, 72.36268433
Jupiter: 2936.761379, 1468.38069, 734.1903448, 367.0951724, 183.5475862, 91.7737931
Saturn: 2366.231498, 1183.115749, 591.5578744, 295.7789372, 147.8894686, 73.9447343
Uranus: 3315.368124, 1657.684062, 828.8420311, 414.4210156, 207.2105078, 103.6052539
Neptune: 3380.968593, 1690.484297, 845.2421483, 422.6210742, 211.3105371, 105.6552685
Pluto: 2247.057022, 1123.528511, 561.7642555, 280.8821277, 140.4410639, 70.22053193

In 2006, Greg Fox took the above orbital periods and divided them until their frequencies fell within the human acoustic range. This gave him six octaves of "planetary notes" for each planet. He called the resulting “music”: “Carmen of the Spheres”. It can be heard and downloaded at:
http://www.archive.org/details/GregFoxCarmenoftheSpheres

Thanks to Alcibiades for that one!

Music may finally become free of DRM!

Vivendi's Universal Music has said it is to test the digital sale of songs from artists without the customary copy-protection technology.

It will allow the sale of thousands of albums and tracks available in MP3-form without the protection, known as digital rights management (DRM).

Most major recording studios insist music sellers use DRM technology to curb online piracy.

Universal artists include 50 Cent, the Black Eyed Peas, and Amy Winehouse.

Universal said: "The experiment will run from August to January and analyze such factors as consumer demand, price sensitivity and piracy in regards to the availability of open MP3s."

Retailers including Google, Wal-Mart, and Amazon.com, will participate in the DRM-free trial, Universal said.

But participants do not include Apple iTunes online music store, the third largest music retailer in the US.

Source: BBC News

Gotta Love Amy WineHouse's "You know I'm No Good"!

The Official (Plugged) Version of the Song is Awesome (you can listen to it at left) , but the Video of it Bites ... and so ... here is a Very Unplugged rendition of it ... Old-school-sailor-ink, heroin-chic-anorexia, po'-dangerous-lil'-baddd-grrrl, 60s/70s soul.

Elvis Costello with the Allen Toussaint Band & Horns featuring Steve Nieve

As part of the 2007 Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the great Elvis Costello will be appearing with the Allen Toussaint Band & Horns featuring Steve Nieve at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on July 10, 2007 at 21:00 (9 PM) for one night.

Music Industry Exec Threatens Prince

"The music industry has reacted angrily at a decision to give away the new album by US musician Prince with a tabloid newspaper.

Planet Earth will be given free with a future edition of the Mail on Sunday.

The 10-track CD from Prince - whose hits include Purple Rain, Sign O' The Times and Cream - is not due to be released until 24 July.

Paul Quirk, co-chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association, said the decision "beggars belief".

"The Artist formerly known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores," said Mr Quirk ..."

Read Full Article on the BBC Site

Amel Bent - Nouveau Français

Concert in Athens: The DreaZone etc

Michael Moore's Sicko
Part 1