One of the cooler features of last.fm is that it will recommend events (mostly concerts) based on the music you listen to. One of those was Coldcut playing at the "Dom im Berg", which took place Saturday night. I didn't really know Coldcut all that well, I just had heard "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" on the radio a couple of times. So I went. Might also have something to do with the "support" acts Binder&Krieglstein and Electric Indigo alone being enough of a reason to go.
I went there way earlier than would have been necessary. I should have known that even though the event begins at 10pm there wouldn't really be any real action till midnight. At least I could get that photo at the right. The only one which came out usable. My cell phone's camera just sucks.
The whole event is part of the [Energy Uniion Tour][energyuniion] promoting climate protection. As part of that Global 2000 had information at the event about their view of Intelligent Energy and Climate Protection.
First ones to enter the stage were Binder&Krieglstein. I'm not entirely sure if I should use the plural or singular to refer to Binder&Krieglstein. Even though it's actually a solo project, when performing live they are actually more of a band. Anyway it was a great show and their mix of musical styles is amazing.
I also had great fun dancing with the people in the audience. Eventually a Jam Circle developed near the stage. A straw hat was used to determine who was to perform in the middle. The dancer in the middle would, when finished, pass the hat along to the person they wanted to go next. I got the hat passed tow times. Even though I don't consider myself a particularly good dancer, I had loads of fun there.
The Coldcut performance, which came next wasn't quite what I expected. Not knowing Coldcut's reputation as VJs and not having read the flyers too closely, I thought I would get some kind of concert. Instead they delivered a kind of movie about global warming and sustainable energy you can dance to. They started out with a DJ/VJ set combination and starting to perform the live VJ film after some time. The while thing was also supported by a string quartet from Graz.
This video of the show in Munich should give you some impression of the whole thing. Still the live show has some more energy to it.
After the show the audience was asked to sign postcards lobbying the government to take action against global warming. While we all were busy doing that, the stage crew had some problems getting the DJ equipment on stage. It took some time but eventually Electric Indigo started her set. I gotta tell you she's a damn good techno DJ.
What I only discovered after I finally got home was the rest of the program that took place on Friday and during Saturday. There were workshops film screenings and a panel discussion, as well as a meet and greet with Coldcut.
The most well known points, where these artist's work meet, are such movies as 'Komm süsser Tod', 'Silentium', and 'Der Knochenmann'. Wolf Haas contributed the story and the Sofa Surfers are the ones responsible for the score.
Now on September 8, there will be a reading of 'Brenner und der liebe Gott" by Wolf Haas, and the Sofa Surfers will be playing some songs from the soundtracks of the three Brenner-Movies.
I'll see you there.
Wolf Haas
and the Sofa Surfers
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Orpheum, Graz
Orpheumgasse 8
The next concert I will attend will be the Animal Collective playing live at Postgarage on July 20th.
It would be a bit too much to say that I'm a fan of them, but I like the few songs I hear on occasion. And I'm positive that this concert could just be the little kick it takes for me to really get into them. See ya there.
The last 4 music CD's I bought kind of have something in common.
See it?
Right. There's no text.
And now to quote, Stormy Peters:
Have you ever watched one of those power command line users? [..]. Their fingers just fly and magic comes out of their computer.
But you might want to read thw whole thing, 'cause theirs other interesting kinds of magic to be discovered.
It seems that the single one slightly interesting thing on this little website is this post about "Rearranging my Keyboard". At least if you're going to believe all those people Google directs at it.
Recently I stumbled over Eric Anholt saying:
I got a lovely little eee 901 for work. It mostly seems like a useful machine, except for the position of the right shift key which is a disaster. (Placing my fingers on the home row, I've hovering over the up-arrow instead of shift. Hilarity ensues when trying to type '~' in the terminal or working on spreadsheets in any way).
I can feel your pain, Eric. The same thing happened to me with a Sony Vaio. Which is a nice little machine and all, but was I ever grateful when I finally got an USB keyboard to accompany it. Finally a shift key placed the way it's ought to be.
It's already hard enough for me to adjust to a keyboard that's not quite wired the way my fingers are wired to my brain. Like when I switch back and forth between German and US keyboard layouts, which aren't really, all that different.
At my current job I'm programming in APL, a language which comes with it's own keyboard layouts, with all kinds of odd symbols wired to Ctrl-somekey combinations. It always takes me some time to adjust to normal keyboards again.
It's kind of like rewiring your fingers really.
So, my mother says, that I need new t-shirts. Maybe she's right. And my birthday is coming up!
So here are four shirts I might like:
Yesterday I got a new toy! A brand new Acer Aspire One. It's a neat little laptop. only a bit larger than a sheet of A4 paper, featuring an 8GiB SSD and Intel's new Atom N270.
Although the preinstalled Linpus Linux interface was nice, it wasn't made forr me. I spend most off my computing time in black terminal emulators. So I installed Debian on it. As the folks at Realraum are so nice to provide Debian installer images on pxeboot, that went nice and easy, even though the laptop has no CD drive.
Still there are some problems remaining. I didn't test all the hardware yet, but have alrady hit one I haven't got to work yet. The wifi card. I had previously assumed that it would be one made by Intel, as most of the other hardware, specifically Mainboard, Soundchip, and Graphics chip are fabricated by Intel. Well I've guessed wrong. It's an atheros AR242x chipset and I couldn't get it to work with any of the madwifi drivers yet. Neither the one provided by Debian nor svn snapshots from madwifi.org would wark. What I haven't tried yet is ath9k, the free driver by atheros themselves.
Another thing, I couldn't get to work, is avahi, which is a shame since I normally use mdns to connect my various machines with another. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the network driver or something else.
Otherwise it's a nice gadget though. But I still need to get used to typing on the keyboard, which is smaller than what I'm used to.
Update: It seems the folks at aspireoneuser.com got the wifi working on Ubuntu. So I think I will get it to work on Debian too.
Update 2: The reason why I didn't get the wifi card to work, was that I forgot to ...errm... reboot.
