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Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China : NPR Music - 0 views

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shared by isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08 - Cached
  • When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
  • isaac Mao on 26 Jun 08
     
    Internet Helps Liberate, Create Music in China By Laura Sydell Listen Now [7 min 48 sec] add to playlist Chinese electronic musician B6 B6, a Shanghai-based electronic musician, explored Western music first on pirated CDs and then at music-sharing sites on the Web. Now he collaborates online with other performers. B6's studio equipment -- a jumble of keyboards, etc. Enlarge B6 works out of a home studio in a Shanghai high-rise. Above, some of his musical arsenal. Discover China's Indie Music Neocha Web site image Neocha.com With Sean Leow, B6 co-founded the music-sharing site Neocha.com, an ad-supported service that lets listeners discover music and pays musicians a share of advertising revenue. * Neocha.com * Neocha's "Next" Player Morning Edition, June 25, 2008 - Second in a three-part series. When America was rocking to the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, the airwaves in China were dominated by songs with lyrics from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. It's more open today, but the Communist government still bans anything that mentions sex or violence, or that has "low class humor" - which bans an awful lot of American music. So the music most likely to come pouring out of the radio in China is syrupy ballads usually produced in Hong Kong or Taiwan. But Chinese musicians and fans are finding a whole new universe of sound on the Internet. And it's helping to create and nourish a new generation of independent artists in China. From Black-Market Discs to Napster and Beyond One of them is B6, a 27-year-old electronic musician. He lives and works on the first floor of a high-rise on the outskirts of Shanghai. He's part of China's burgeoning electronic-music scene. Growing up, the CDs B6 listened to were mostly sold on the black market. "When I was in high school, I used to listen to rock 'n' roll music," he says. "At that time, it was very difficult to get foreign or Western music." And then, in 1999, the Internet came to China - and B6 and his fr
isaac Mao

李云迪遭解约的背后 - 0 views

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朗朗 音乐 艺术

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  • 李云迪1982年出生于中国重庆市，相对于同样签约在Deutsche Grammophon门下的另一位中国钢琴家郎朗(Lang Lang)那种取悦大众、但却极为平庸粗糙、毫无艺术感可言的风格，李云迪的演奏一直都在维系一块宝贵的净土。
  • “第一名”只在体育竞技场上或者极权政府里才有意义。郎朗的父亲是一位军人，正是他逼迫郎朗无休无止的练习钢琴。有一次郎朗练琴迟到，还被父亲下令“要么跳楼、要么喝药”自杀。
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  • 格拉夫曼曾语带讥讽地表示，如果舒曼(Schumann)听到郎朗对他的音乐的诠释，他可能会突发心脏病，尽管“可能不至于致命”。
  • 这些新生代钢琴家包括出生在中国旅居纽约的Di Wu。Wu是一位敏捷的年轻女性，她那热情、有力、真挚的演奏应该很快会为她带来唱片合约，希望她将来签约的唱片公司不会试图把她包装成一个惹人爱怜、浓妆艳抹的玩偶。1987年出生于北京的王羽佳也是一位才华横溢的钢琴家，她刚刚与Deutsche Grammophon签约，虽然她的加盟还未正式宣布。Universal Music Classical的公关总监芮贝卡•大卫斯(Rebecca Davis)表示，王羽佳的首张唱片将于5月份发行。即便是对于年纪更小的天才， 例如神童钢琴演奏家、作曲家陶康雷和龚鹏鹏，唱片公司也应该推出更加成熟的市场策略，以免重蹈李云迪的覆辙。陶康雷出生在美国伊利诺伊州厄本那，而龚鹏鹏来自中国。这两位少年钢琴家目前均在朱丽娅音乐学院(Juilliard)预科班就读，他们的演奏要比多数成人钢琴家更加娴熟。
  • isaac Mao on 25 Dec 08
     
    在极权下的艺术如何变成钢铁
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Beijing spending 45 billion RMB on pro-China international news network - Shanghaiist: ... - 0 views

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  • So apparently the controversies in international media this summer over China and the Olympics came as a bit of a shock to the Chinese people. While the government's retained tight control over its own media, it's been less able to harmonize those pesky news outlets abroad. Not one to take perceived insults to its national image lying down, Beijing is now throwing RMB 45 billion into targeting global audiences.
feng37

China's All-Seeing Eye : Rolling Stone - 0 views

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shared by feng37 on 17 May 08 - Cached
  • The Fourth Amendment prohibition against illegal search and seizure made it into the U.S. Constitution precisely because its drafters understood that the power to snoop is addictive. Even if we happen to trust in the good intentions of the snoopers, the nature of any government can change rapidly — which is why the Constitution places limits on the tools available to any regime. But the drafters could never have imagined the commercial pressures at play today. The global homeland-security business is now worth an estimated $200 billion — more than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Any sector of that size inevitably takes on its own momentum. New markets must be found — which, in the Big Brother business, means an endless procession of new enemies and new emergencies: crime, immigration, terrorism.
  • here is a large and powerful country that, when it comes to human rights and democracy, is so much worse than Bush's America. But during my time in Shenzhen, China's youngest and most modern city, I often have the feeling that I am witnessing not some rogue police state but a global middle ground, the place where more and more countries are converging. China is becoming more like us in very visible ways (Starbucks, Hooters, cellphones that are cooler than ours), and we are becoming more like China in less visible ones (torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, though not nearly on the Chinese scale).
feng37

Inside the precision hack « Music Machinery - 0 views

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shared by feng37 on 22 Apr 09 - Cached
  • At 4AM this morning I received an email inviting me to an IRC chatroom where someone would explain to me exactly how the Time.com 100 Poll was precision hacked. Naturally, I was a bit suspicious. Anyone could claim to be responsible for the hack - but I ventured onto the IRC channel (feeling a bit like a Woodward or Bernstein meeting Deep Throat in a parking garage). After talking to ‘Zombocom’ (not his real nick) for a few minutes, it was clear that Zombocom was a key player in the hack. He explained how it all works. The Beginning Zombocom told me that it all started out when the folks that hang out on the random board of 4chan (sometimes known as /b/) became aware that Time.com had enlisted moot (the founder of 4chan) as one of the candidates in the Time.com 100 poll. A little investigation showed that a poll vote could be submitted just by doing an HTTP get on the URL:        http://www.timepolls.com/contentpolls/Vote.do ?pollName=time100_2009&id=1883924&rating=1 where ID is a number associated with the person being voted for (in this case 1883924 is Rain’s ID). Soon afterward, several people crafted ‘autovoters’ that would use the simple voting URL protocol to vote for moot. These simple autovoters could be triggered by an easily embeddable ’spam URL’. The autovoters were very flexible allowing the rating to be set for any poll candidate. For example, the URL           http://fun.qinip.com/gen.php?id=1883924 &rating=1&amount=160 could be used to push 160 ratings of 1 (the worst rating) for the artist Rain to the Time.com poll.
  • “Needless to say, we were enraged” says Zombocom. /b/ responded by getting organized - they created an IRC channel (#time_vote) devoted to the hack, and started to recruit. Shortly afterward, one of the members discovered that the ’salt’, the key to authenticating requests, was poorly hidden in Time.com’s voting flash application and could be extracted. With the salt in hand - the autovoters were back online, rocking the vote.
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