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A vast new paid website about World War II will be launched next week. This multimedia resource aims to provide a growing archive of audio, visual and text information about the most devastating conflict in history. The project was created by Laurence Rees, filmmaker and author of seven books on the second world war, besides a long career at the BBC. Some of the world's most eminent historians are also to appear in the project, including Ian Kershaw, the leading authority on the rise of Adolf Hitler . Users of  WW2History.com will be charged £4.99 for 24 hours' access, or £6.99 for the first month and £3.99 for each subsequent month, The Guardian reports .

After a lengthy battle with cancer, Gang Starr rapper Guru-- born Keith Elam-- passed away yesterday, MTV reports .

A day in the life of a rain-shower. As a city symphony Joris Ivens films Amsterdam and its changing appearence during a rain-shower in 1929. In 1941 the film inspired Hanns Eisler to compose his "Fourteen ways to describe rain" in the context of a 'Film Music Project'. 'Fourteen ways to describe Rain' became Eislers best chambermusic, which he dedicated to his tutor Arnold Schönberg.

Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde's collaborative work, Birds And Traces,curated by The Wire Magazine . Inspired by the themes of bird migration, the season of Spring and climate change, Birds And Traces involved school children local to the Snape area reinterpreting Norwegian songs about birds and Spring along with making origami birds and mapping out migration routes. The performance features Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli.

Axel Dörner  http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/music... 21inch http://www.live-tempera.com/21/inch.htm

Norbert Möslang (CH) will play tomorrow (16.04.2010) with Axel Dörner (DE) and Carlos 'Zíngaro' (PT), at Culturgest (Lisboa) for the Metasonic III , electro-acoustic experimental music festival. burst_log was released in 2006 by FOR4EARS  label(CH).

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Elian  is the creative moniker for the music of Michael Duane Ferrell.

Megafaun - Volunteers / A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo .

Susanna Wallumrød, voz e electrónica Morten Qvenild, teclados e piano Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa, SEGUNDA 12 ABRIL 22H00