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Erkki Kurenniemi is a key name in the history of electronic music. He founded the electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s. Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments and one of his most ambitious project was the video synthesizer DIMI-O (1970-1971) that converts movements recorded by a video camera into instaneous music compositions. According to Wikipedia , "Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer in 1973,two years before the American MITS Altair 8800".

Sonic Youth will have a new studio album next June. We take this as a catalyzer to get immersed into a flood of electric guitar drones. Or to feel happy again with some acoustic tones. Even if they have to be complemented by some electronics. From Vienna, we have recently discovered an amazing low frequency orchestra. And noticed that people from Raster-Noton will be in Lisbon for the OFFF festival. That will be in May. For the next weekend John Zorn will perform in Porto and Portalegre. Raw material for a double-hour of pure radio. RUC, Coimbra, 109.9fm Last Saturday we've played: Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse - Geffen, 2004 Godspeed You! Black Empero r - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada [EP]- Constellation Records, 1999 Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe - SQUIRE - For4Ears, 2006 Fred Frith - To Sail, To Sail - Tzadik, 2008 Franziska Baumann, Matthias Ziegler - Voices & Tides - Leo Records, 2007 Beuret Koch Vonlanthen - Synopsis - Altrisuoni, 2008 Denis Beuret - Alone - Leo Records...

Dreaming an entire life. And taking the power of music as a source for developing the dimensions of the human being. José António Abreu is the founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela.

Now it's really official. Matador Records has announced that Sonic Youth’s 16th album, "The Eternal", will be released on June 9. That's a date to fix. The album artwork features a painting by John Fahey .

Carmen Miranda was born 100 years ago.  She was a portuguese-born brazilian samba singer, precursor of Brazil's tropicalismo. Also a Broadway star, Carmen Miranda was by some accounts the highest-earning woman in the USA. The next piece is one of the most beautiful songs written by John Cale, published in 1989 on his masterpiece Words for the Dying. The Soul of Carmen Miranda-Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (live) - John Cale