While looking for a Tsatsiki-recipe I stumbled upon this site, which seems quite cool: Cooking For Engineers – Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded.
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Prison concert
Just got back from playing with Hotel Desperado in Vestre Fængsel (The Western Prison) in Copenhagen. The concert was in the prison chapel where about 50-60 inmates (both male and female) were present. We were kind of nervous before the gig (we had no idea what the audience would be like and what kind of…Continue reading Prison concert
Back in Vienna
I am back in Vienna, this time for a month visiting the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology (Institut für Volksmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie) which is part of the University of Music and Performing Arts (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien). During my visit I will both be doing research as well as presenting…Continue reading Back in Vienna
strobist preliminaries
a good introduction to off-camera flash can be found here: strobist preliminaries explaining the basics and giving good examples it can be used as a tutorial before starting the lighting 101 at the strobist.
Greenpeace’s Sea the future
Eating fish is not necessarily better for than the environment than meat, especially through the risk of overfishing. Greenpeace Denmark has a new campaign called “Sea the future” which focuses on the dangers of overfishing. See also the article “For få sælger bæredygtige fisk” in today’s Politiken – especially for a list of supermarkets which…Continue reading Greenpeace’s Sea the future
Vigdal’s Tonereise
In my master’s thesis Signifyin’ Vigdal: Aspects of the Ragnar Vigdal tradition and the revival of Norwegian vocal folk music which I finished in 2003 my main point of focus was the Ragnar Vigdal tradition and how vocalists today interpret him (his style is known for it’s nasal timbre, ornamentals and special tonality). As a…Continue reading Vigdal’s Tonereise
Next concert with Hotel Desperado
My next gig with Hotel Desperado is on Saturday, January 26th sometime after 18:00. We are playing at Ferie for Fattigrøve (which starts at 14:00) which is located in the Støberiet (Medborgerhuset på Blågårdsplads). Other bands playing are Raggarpack, Mission One, The Good – The Bad, Daniel og Dollars and Pandemonium Steelband. But if you…Continue reading Next concert with Hotel Desperado
back in piter
I’m back in Piter for the year-end-vacation after a break of a year and a half and places, as always, change. Some changes are induced by collective destruction – the lack of snow in St. Petersburg now is probably to some extent due to global warming. However, other changes have direct causes. What really knocked…Continue reading back in piter
Copyright and youtube
The popular music scholar Philip Tagg has compiled information on how to file a counter claim if one of your movies is removed by youtube due to copyright complaints which are unwarranted. It can be found here: YouTube Counter Claims, etc.. The page also has a link to the article “Copyright versus the democratic right…Continue reading Copyright and youtube
two reviews published
two reviews i wrote this year were just published in the journal popular music (volume 27:1, 2008). the books i reviewed were: García, David F.: “Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music”, Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2006 Biddle, Ian; Knights, Vanessa (eds.): “Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location – Between…Continue reading two reviews published
pics of contemporary russia
here are some accurate pictures of contemporary russia 😉 www.wrecker.newmail.ru/www/russia.htm
grab shot at the digital story
one of the pictures i took while in new york this summer made it as the weekly grab shot at the digital story: The Digital Story: Grab Shot 123 – “NY Alley Lighting and Texture” 🙂