Notices by Rasmus Fleischer (rasmusfleischer@tldr.nettime.org), page 4

@eibart I do think this should be taken into consideration, and I like that you raise the point about different spiecies having different hearing capabilities. Too often, this issue is discussed in a too anthropocentric manner.
But actually, sounds (i.e. dance music) that may be deeply disturbing to some human ears does not necessarily affect most animals. And the other way around: many human activities emit ultra- and infrasound that we do not even hear, but may be very disturbing for certain animals. We also have the issue of light pollution hurting insects, bats etc.
All taken together, I do think that also in socio-ecological terms this kind of underground community culture is a positive alternative to the inner-city commercial nightlife industry.
In addition, I suspect that by attending this type of open-air parties, people also cultivate their appreciation for nature and become more willing to defend Stockholm's forests against exploitation.

Last weekend we arranged a free party in a south Stockholm forest, the sound system playing for 13 hours straight, passing through every possible degree of musical intensity.

Here's a recording of the DJ set that I played a DJ in the middle of the night. Going from layers of syncopated rhythms, towards an exploration of some new dub & acid bailie, ending with a slightly chaotic turn towards jungle. (Yet this was nothing compared to the musical journeys that would follow in the morning hours!)
https://soundcloud.com/rasmusfleischer/orhem-7-juni-2024
#dub #dubstep #bassmusic #techno #breakbeat #acid #bailie #jungle #rave
https://hearthis.at/rsmsflschr/orhem-7-juni-2024/

#ChatControl the saga continues.. 😫

Read @echo_pbreyer latest article on this nightmare:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

#EU #EUCommission #Privacy #Dystopia

The Wall Street Journal: "The AI revolution is already losing steam"
https://archive.is/R5zkq

"The Future of #Neurodiversity", with @drrobertchapman + 6 respondents:
https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-future-of-neurodiversity/

I just finished Paul Rekret's new book and it is an extraordinary study of some key developments in popular music, in relation to key transformations of 21st century capitalism.
I'd even say this book represents a necessary update of cultural studies as a field, making it more relevant than it has been for like forty years!
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380168/take-this-hammer/

"In arguing that the experience of popular music is partly conditioned by its segregation from work and its restriction to the time and space of leisure—the evening, the weekend, the dancehall—Take This Hammer shows how changes to work as it grows increasingly precarious, part-time, and temporary in recent decades, are related to transformations in popular music."

Ben Gidley, Daniel Mang & Daniel Randal: "Against the Abuse of the Issue of Antisemitism by Right Wing Media and Politicians and Their Attacks on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech"
https://leftrenewal.org/statements/open-letter-2024-05-20/

I enjoyed the latest episode of Scuba's podcast featuring techno legend Luke Slater, talking about, well, #techno and its history (with Scuba gently trying to put it in a slightly more political context while Slater was refreshingly honest about himself being rather apolitical). Also about Slater's new album as L.B. Dub Corp which will be released tomorrow.
https://podtail.se/sv/podcast/not-a-diving-podcast-with-scuba/-113-luke-slater-what-is-techno-sometimes-nothing-/
https://lbdubcorp.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-to-home

I'm finally reading Eske Bockelman's "Im Takt des Geldes" (2004). The core of his fascinating argument is that metric rhythm [Taktrhythmus] does only emerge with capitalist modernity. This obviously seems related, at least on some levels, to Mark Abel's similarly fascinating book "Groove: An aesthetic of measured time".
However, Abel's book does not reference Bockelmann's (which has not been translated to English). I find no publication discussing their respective arguments i relation to each other. Did nobody else read both Abel and Bockelmann?
#rhythm #rhythmus

@robindetje "Barn" als in das schwedische Wort für Kinder?

Tomas Konicz on German politics, #fascism as a crisis ideology (not a conspiracy among capitalists), and the connection between the rise of AfD and the demise of German export industry: https://www.konicz.info/2024/05/11/germany-fascism-is-booming/

"The faction of capital that is most resolutely opposed to the AfD’s participation in government is therefore the German large-scale and export-oriented industry. /.../
And it is precisely the German export industry that is currently experiencing a downturn, which actually marks only the beginning of the end of the export-driven German economic model." #wertkritik

IL Berlin: "Trotz aller Widrigkeiten halten wir eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung zum Thema Israel/Palästina für notwendig. Mit diesem Diskussionsbeitrag versuchen wir, dazu beizutragen."
https://interventionistische-linke.org/beitrag/zweites-statement-der-il-berlin-zum-krieg-israelpalaestina

@jbjarnstedt Thinking of any particular projects?

The world according to Google Street View, May 2024 (from /r/MapPorn)

Wikipedia on #Udio:
"Critics praised its ability to create realistic-sounding vocals while others raised concerns over the possibility that its training data contained copyrighted music."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udio

What I have not yet seen discussed is the issue of data annotation. Recorded music is worthless as training data if it is not connected to words describing it.
Are there any clues as to how companies like Udio gather annotations that describe pieces of music?
To what extent can be say that a service like Udio exploits the labour not only of musicians, but also music critics?
Have annotation data been extracted from playlist names on platforms like Spotify and Youtube, tags on Soundcloud or Bandcamp, etc? And to what degree may the annotations themselves be AI generated?

I have a vague feeling that there is so much to unwind here.

WAX90009 is beautiful.
https://wax10001.bandcamp.com/album/wax90009
https://www.differentgrooves.com/portfolio/wax90009/
#dub #techno #house #berlin

Ridicolously enough, I seemingly can't access the academic journal Anarchist Studies and the article I'm looking for cannot even be found in Anna's Archive.

Maybe someone can help me? The title I'm looking for: "Graeber and Wengrow’s Middle Ages"

@messaroundmarx I agree that the widened understanding of #fetishization is very much relevant in this context!

"At a certain point, realism flips over into delirium."
– Mark Fisher

Here comes the monthly mixtape, only about 30 minutes, with no music older than 2020: #breakbeat, #techno and #dancehall mixed together.
https://hearthis.at/rsmsflschr/aprilmix-2024/