Archive: 'general'
pannonica
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Opened to the public in 1994 in Nantes (France), Pannonica is a cultural space dedicated to live music. It is directed by the Nantes Jazz Action association which handles the programming and manages the place itself. In ten years and more of existence it has helped to further develop and promote the local, national and international Jazz scene as well as new and improvised music, by welcoming young artists as well as some of the most famous names in the Jazz and Free music fields. A true crossroads for Jazz Music in the West area of France, Pannonica supports, hosts and promotes young artists and independent labels versed in contemporary Jazz such as : Jazzophone Company, Quartet Ixi, Alban Darche and Yolk records, Jean-Louis Apple tree, Survivors of Infinite, but also some major American and European artists such as Ray Anderson, William Parker, Scott Coley, Abbey Lincoln, Lee Konitz, Aldo Romano, Henri Texier, Louis Sclavis, Bruno Chevillon, Marc Ducret, François Raulin, Dianne Reeves, Tom Harrel, Stenson Sore, Gary Peacock, Archie Sheep… Not forgetting some of the most considerable activists of the international Free Music scene : Luc Ex, Domenica Répécaud, Ron Anderson, Eugene Chadbourne, Walls Furnace, Assif Tsahar, Axel Dorner, Alan Licht, Loren Mazzacane Connors…
Pannonica organizes approximately a hundred concerts a year, from September to June. It is administered and directed by a private, non-profit association actively supported by the City of Nantes and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication via the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs. Pannonica is part of the Jazz Scenes and Improvised Music Federation, which gathers about thirty jazz clubs nationwide.
The artistic project: Pannonica defines its artistic activity as “art et essai” applied to music, a concept to which we are strongly attached. In order to provide a more precise understanding of our activity, it may be helpful to expose some of our primary objectives, which make Pannonica more than a mere concert hall. We seek to :- defend an artistic and cultural project primarily devoted to modern creation in the field of Jazz and improvised music,- devote a broad space to the expression of original ideas and current creations,- set up a scheme of action designed to help the artistic growth and professional development of local artists,- allow the public to discover rare, creative music often ignored by the media.- reaffirm Pannonica’s vocation as both a relay and initiator of many different projects for festivals and other big structures- develop a coherent policy to seduce the public by keeping our prices interestingly low.- work for the consideration of jazz and new music in the debates on public policies and cultural development at national level. Please visit Pannonica’s website for more detailed information.
lone koppel | tosca act I. duet
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Download “Tosca, Act I, Duet (1964)” (mp3)
from “Lone Koppel Live & Studio Recordings 1963-86″
by Lone Koppel Label: Danacord Records
pandora opened a container releasing all the evils of mankind - greed, vanity, slander, envy, pining - leaving only hope inside once she had closed it again.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Dear Pandora listener,
Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora’s streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.
It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape allows.
We show your IP address, which indicates you are listening from France. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email.
Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music - we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.
Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener’s country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We will be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. We will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding.
Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)
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metropolis | we are on vacation…
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
just for a couple of days……………………………we will be back on monday the 30 of may 2007. A great weekend to all metropolis readers.
all things must pass ?
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Hi All, Just when you think your at the bottom of the ladder , there seems to be just one more wrung to go. How far down is down ? When or shall I say where does it end? All thats left to say is “they were expendable” . Not that this constitutes a reason, just a general attitude. The Maya, wrote their story on temple walls . Where should we leave our story for future generations to find and study ? Dominic Duval
“the hugest work of art ever”.
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
The Stockhausen Affair by Jorge Lima Barreto
Karlheinz Stockhausen, german composer, born in 1928, is one of the major figures of the whole music history; he has been in the vanguard of the contemporary music through the second half of the XXth Century.
