TACTICAL SILeNCE

Demo #1

2005-07-27T20:24:00.000+02:00

9'.03''

Em Otion

2005-07-27T10:18:00.000+02:00

In psychology and common use, emotion is an aspect of a person's mental state of being, normally based in or tied to the person's internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. Love, hate, courage, fear, joy, sadness, pleasure and disgust can all be described in both psychological and physiological terms. Emotion is the realm where thought and physiology are inextricably entwined, and where the 'self' is inseparable from our individual perceptions of value and judgement toward ourselves and others

Tuning

2005-07-22T19:26:00.000+02:00

EADGBE
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D'you know what I mean?

2005-07-21T20:02:00.000+02:00

* Afrikaans: musiek
* Alabama: olaachi
* Albanian: muzikë {f}
* Amharic: ሙዚቃ
* Arabic: موسيقى (musiqa)
* Armenian: երաժշտություն
* Azeri: not, musiqi
* Basque: musika
* Belarusian: muzyka
* Bengali: bAjnA (à¦¬à¦¾à¦œà¦¨à¦¾)
* Breton: sonerezh m, muzik m -où pl
* Bulgarian: музика f (1)
* Catalan: música f
* Chinese:
o Simplified Chinese: 乐 (yuè), 音乐 (yīn yuè), 乐曲 (yuè qǔ)
o Traditional Chinese: 樂, 音樂, 樂曲
* Chamorro: música, dandan
* Croatian: arija, glazba, glazbena, glazbene, glazbeni, glazbom, muzika, muziku, note, orkestar
* Czech: hudba
* Dutch: muziek f (1,2), bladmuziek f (3)
* Esperanto: muziko
* Dutch: muziek
* Farsi: moosiqi, hang
* Frisian: muzyk
* Finnish: musiikki (1,2,3)
* French: musique f
* German: Musik f (1,2,3,5,6), Noten (pl) f (4)
* Greek: mouzike
* Haitian Creole: mizik
* Hawaiian: Mele, pila hoʻokani
* Hebrew: מוסיקה f
* Hiligaynon: lanton
* Hindi: संगीत विद्या, संगीत, राग, लय, ताल, सुर, सुस्वर, तालैक्य
* Hungarian: zene, énekóra, kotta
* i-Kiribati: te katangitang
* Interlingua: musica
* Irish: ceol m1
* Italian: musica f
* Japanese: 音楽 (おんがく, ongaku)
* Korean: 음악 [音樂] (eumak)
* Latin: musica f
* Malagasy: mozika
* Norwegian: Musikk
* Polish: muzyka f
* Portuguese: música f
* Romanian: muzică f
* Russian: музыка f
* Scottish Gaelic: ceòl nm. g.v. ciùil
* Slovak: hudba
* Spanish: música f
* Swedish: musik
* Turkish: müzik
* Ukrainian: музика

Montag

2005-07-21T10:25:00.000+02:00

Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times other forms of media, such as gramophone records, CDs and video tapes, have also been ceremoniously burned or shredded. The practice, often carried out publicly, is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material.
"Burning books and killing scholars" in 212 BC is counted as the greatest crime of Qin Shi Huang of China.
The writer Heinrich Heine famously wrote in 1821 "Where they burn books, they will end in burning human beings."— Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen (in his play Almansor). Just over a century later the Nazis did exactly as Heine had predicted.
The Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 is about a fictional future society that has institutionalized book burning.
Many people find book burning to be offensive for a variety of reasons. Some feel it is a form of censorship that religious or political leaders practice against those ideas that they oppose. This is especially true of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. Those who oppose book burning on those grounds often equate those who burn books with Nazis.
Burning books in public may simply draw unwanted attention to them. Books collected by the authorities and privately disposed of should be counted among books that have effectively been "burnt." "In 367 C.E., Athanasius the zealous bishop of Alexandria,... issued an Easter letter in which he demanded that Egyptian monks destroy all such [unacceptable] writings, except for those he specifically listed as 'acceptable' even 'canonical'— a list that constitutes virtually all our present 'New Testament'" (Pagels p 97). Heretical texts do not turn up as palimpsests, washed clean and overwritten, as pagan ones do; thus, in this manner many early Christian texts have been as thoroughly "lost" as if they had been publicly burnt.
The current trend of digital communications and archiving has resulted in cataloging of written works on digital media. When these works are destroyed by deletion or purposeful purging of these works, it can be thought of as book burning. Some modern examples of this are: deletions of nodes by people other than thier authors on web sites such as Everything2, the deletion of archived emails and data when trying to hide evidence. Book burning is the destruction of written works whether the medium of destruction used is fire or deletion.

Mike should be a friend of mine

2005-07-20T10:31:00.000+02:00

Mike is a device that converts sound into an electrical signal. It's used in many applications such as telephones, tape recorders, hearing aids, motion picture production and in radio and television broadcasting.
In Mike, sound waves (sound pressure) are translated into mechanical vibrations in a thin, flexible diaphragm. These sound vibrations are then converted by various methods into an electrical signal which varies in voltage amplitude and frequency in an analog of the original sound. For this reason, Mike is an acoustic wave to voltage modulation transducer.

4'33"

2005-07-19T10:20:00.000+02:00

John Milton Cage (September 5, 1912–August 12, 1992) was an American experimental music composer and writer. He is possibly best known for his piece 4'33", in which the performer sits at a piano for four and a half minutes without playing a note.
Cage was an early writer of what he called "chance music" (and what others have decided to label aleatoric music)—music where some elements in the music are left to be decided by chance; he is also well known for his non-standard use of instruments and his pioneering exploration of electronic music. His works were sometimes controversial, but he is generally regarded as one of the most important composers of his era, especially in his raising questions about the definition of music.
John Cage put Zen Buddhist beliefs into art practice. He described his music as “purposeless play”, but “this play is an affirmation of life-not an attempt to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we are living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out the way and lets it act of its own accord.” Cage was also an avid amateur mycologist and mushroom collector.

Prosthesis

2005-07-18T21:43:00.000+02:00

Everyone's got a road to cover.

2005-07-18T14:48:00.000+02:00

What about crossroads?