RHIZOM is a transdisciplinary festival that has developed out of VAZEM collective dedicated to cultivating alternative electronic music and arts. It commits itself to uniqueness, character, innovation, passion and DIY-spirit. During the festival, alternative electronic music and uncompromising club-culture will be experienced. The social responsibility of culture and its consumers will be discussed and envisioned Read the full article… »»»»
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WiseUp 03/2017 Sonic Borders
Guillermo Galindo’s interpretation of concepts such as musical form, time perception, music notation, sonic archetypes and his original use of sonic devices span a wide spectrum of output. By appropriating concepts from a variety of disciplines and traditions such as anthropology, electroacoustic music or Jungian psychology – the mexican composer, inventor and performance artist offers Read the full article… »»»»
WiseUp 01/2017 – Homage Mark Fisher & Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman was one of the 20th Century’s influential sociologists. His core ideas during the last 20 years circled around the “liquidity” of the present.
Mark Fisher was a music journalist and political theorist known as K-Punk – and a founder member of Warwick University’s Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, a multi-disciplinary academic body who brought together philosophy, cultural theory and contemporary music. This review features exerpts of recent lectures they held and music releases of 2016. »»»»
Abstract for 19th Biennial IASPM Conference 26 June – 30 June 2017
Popular Music Studies Today 19th Biennial IASPM Conference 26 June – 30 June 2017 University of Kassel, Germany 19th Biennial IASPM Conference Dancecult Presents… EDM Contexts and Representations Bianca Ludewig, University of Vienna: Researching popular music through transmedia festivals The proposed presentation will offer a further development of ethnographic research methodology within the context of Read the full article… »»»»
WiseUp! 11/2014 Skug 100 Symposium
(Deutsch) Anlässlich der 100. Ausgabe des Wiener Musikmagazins Skug, sendet WiseUp Auszüge aus dem Skug Symposium “Musikjournalismus und Popkulturforschung zwischen Academia, Bohemia und Prekariat”, das im Wiener Fluc am 22.10.2014 stattfand. Zu hören gibt es die Einführung von Chefredaktuer Heinrich Deisl und den Vortrag “Ausnüchtern am Aufmerksamkeitsmarkt” der Gender- und Medienforscherin Kristina Pia Hofer. »»»»
