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Falling Hats: Appropriation in Sydney Experimental Electronic Music is a radio feature that went to air on FBi Radio Sydney on Sunday 2004-02-15. Now you can listen to it online, as 40kbps streaming mp3pro via http://anonradio.net/menu.htm. A look at musical appropriation, sampling, quotation and audio collage, from the perspectives of several Sydney underground artists. The first hour features some of the more experienced luminaries of the field, including Rik Rue; Garry Bradbury and Tom Ellard of Severed Heads; and John Blades of the Loop Orchestra. Learn all about cutups and tape loops, and why Deep Forest isn't cool. The second hour focuses on the new generation, including Adrian Bertram of Wake Up And Listen; Luke Collison aka Dsico; and Toecutter from System Corrupt; Find out about plunderphonics, bootlegs and breakcore. The program ends with a discussion of copyright, fair use p2p and the MP3 debate.

camera obscura returns on Monday 1 March 2004 with another series of screenings of interesting and experimental screen works. http://obscura.lanfranchis.com

The Internet has become a venue and medium for art that continues the impulse to broadcast ideas to a worldwide audience. Leonardo and Guest Editor Martha Wilson, Founding Director of Franklin Furnace, seek texts on the subject of "Live Art and Science on the Internet" for a series of special sections in both the international print journal Leonardo and online www.leonardo.info

Memefest, the international festival of radical communications, invites undergraduate and graduate students in communications studies and sociology to look back to the dawn of the Information Age and respond to the 1993 article, `Cyberwar is Coming.` Penned by John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt for the RAND Corporation, this eerily prophetic essay made predictions about how information would be used to sway public opinion, pressure governments and corporations, and even wage war. Memefest is looking for `Ten Years Later` articles that address Arquila and Ronfeldt`s predictions and look at how concepts such as Netwar and Cyberwar have manifested politically and culturally. Entries will be judged by an international jury and the best articles will be awarded with the Award of excellency. For details and competition guidelines, check out the Memefest website: http://www.memefest.org

Adbusters.org is taking on multinational Nike with their own version of sneaker in a protest against the corporation. Keep an eye out for the `Rethink the Cool` billboards near Nike advertisements in your area. Visit http://www.blackspotsneaker.org/ for full details.

Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Monkey Thursday Jan 22nd, the barrelfullofmonkeys.org crew are initiating a new experiment in party culture that YOU are invited to! Riding the wave of recent global 'Flash Mob' gatherings we are putting on a special type of 'Flash Mob PARTY' that will last only 3 songs, in the central CBD of Melbourne, 7:00pm, Thurs Jan 22nd. The location will be revealed by email notice or by checking our website @ http://www.barrelfullofmonkeys.org/100thmonkey.html ON THE DAY. Using special FM technology we will broadcast the music on a local frequency only partygoers will know - so you MUST bring a device with a radio function and headphones - as this is a 'SILENT DANCING' party!!! Numbers are limited, so please sign up by emailing rak@barrelfullofmonkeys.org and read the information enclosed to be a part of the fun and mischief of the Year of the Monkey!!!

The Rainbow Serpent Festival returns again for another summer outdoor extravaganza of music, dancing, arts, camping & other activities. The event will again be held in the scenic country location near Beaufort, around 2 hours drive from Melbourne over Australia Day Long Weekend. The 3 day festival includes the main dance area, alternative music stage , extensive markets & stalls, wholesome foods, healing & workshops program, childrens area, arts installations & performers, chill space, outdoor cinema, camping areas and more. visit http://www.greenant.com for details. Doof Central is giving away RSF tickets, visit www.doofcentral.com for your chance to win.

CALLING ALL AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS
The aim of beinArt.com is to expose and promote the underground Australian art scene to the world, and to network like-themed artists for collaboration, exhibition, commission and publication opportunities. beinArt Underground Australian Art Collective is a non-profit collective. http://www.beinart.com.au

Brisbane`s venue The Elephant and Wheelbarrow will play host to Germany`s Patric C performance on Saturday 10th January along with locals Kunt, 4 Layers of 9, Equalizer24K, Anal Cookie, OVA, Toxic Lipstick, Unhappy Beeperson and Molliger. Patric Catani records under the artist names Patric C, Candie Hank, The Horrible Plans Of Flex Busterman and with EC8OR on labels such as Digital Hardcore, Chicks on Speed, System Corrupt, Spite and Mille Plateaux. Read more for details

Fringecore is the first truly Transcontinental magazine dealing with the cultural fringe and some of the more weird stuff that goes on out there and helps to make society that much more stimulating. The magazine deals with progressive cultural influences that today have a fringe following, but could help to shape our future. Although it covers a wide spectrum of subjects, it is very focused in terms of tone of voice and integrity of information, with a unique personality that will therefore appeal to a progressive-thinking, free-spirited community of people who seek to gain a deeper and broader based insight into alternative cultural and social trends, such as students, artists, writers, researchers, occultists, film-makers, photographers, literary and spoken word followers, cyberpunks, progressive and avant-garde music lovers, trend followers and forecasters, sociologists and all others with an inquisitive mind. http://www.fringecore.com/

Unesco and the University of Plymouth have sponsored an online digital music tutorials website. Topics of study include Basic Concepts of Digital Music (Author: Gianni Corino) [Digital Representation of Sound, Editing, MIDI and Sequencers, Additive Synthesis Technique, Basic Frequency Modulation Synthesis Technique, Advanced FM Synthesis] and Cellular Automata Music (Author: Eduardo Reck Miranda) [Artificial Intelligence and Music, Introduction to Cellular Automata Music Research, Chaosynth - A Cellular Automata-based Granular Synthesiser

BLU FM 89.1 (Blue Mountains community radio) is holding its third demo competition. The station is now calling for talented musicians who would like to have the chance to be heard on radio and included in a CD compilation. visit www.blufm.org.au for more details

AMO is an online resource for bands, with opportunities to be profiled, promoted and have the band`s music previewed by visitors to the site. Visit http://www.amo.org.au/ for details

an international festival of electronic music and media arts featuring artistic showcases, club events, workshops, discussions, installations, and interventions. held in manchester, UK in april-may 04, the festival will include many art exhibitions dealing with the theme of mobile communications & technology. visit www.mobileconnections.org for more details

UNDERGROWTH ::: {we live not underground, but in the undergrowth} ::: A nu world is growing through the cracks of the old in UNDERGROWTH, a quarterly PDF digizine being launched in early 2004, UNDERGROWTH will feature an ongoing collection of some of Australia`s cutting edge guerilla ontologists using science fiction as a medium of exploring consciousness and playing mind games with what they find. From sustainable eco-tek communities to shamanistic modes of perception on the street and the youth culture of tomorrow - UNDERGROWTH is the sprouting of a new wave of writers and artists and a new type of psyence fiction as cyberpunk becomes psyberdelic... visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/undergrowthdigizine/ for more details