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Kokomo man sustained life-threatening injuries in motorcycle crash
Citizens Energy explains water shutoff notices at Indianapolis apartments
The company said they didn't send flyers recently distributed to residents, but said two complexes could have their water shut off for non-payment in August.
Author: Lauren Kostiuk, Emily Longnecker
Published: 8:01 PM EDT June 28, 2021
Updated: 4:02 AM EDT June 29, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of Hoosiers are unsure if they'll have running water in their homes in a matter of weeks.
Citizens Energy sent a notice to the property owner of Lakeside Pointe and Fox Club Apartment complexes in Indianapolis, telling them about a large unpaid balance that could result in disconnected water services come August.
An original flyer claimed the residents had until July 5, but Citizens Energy clarified that's not true and that they didn't prepare or distribute the notice.
"First and foremost, we want to keep both apartments complexes active, but we have financial responsibilities to all our customers to make sure we collect a payment for our services," said Citizens Energy Group spokesperson Dan Considine. "This is something that has been going on for some time and needs to be resolved."
Citizens Energy said it is working with the apartment complex owners to come up with a payment plan to avoid disconnecting water services.
They could not disclose how much is owed, but an advocate from Patchwork Indy said it's around $1.2 million.
In the meantime, it's leaving residents like John Brent with a tough decision, move or wait it out.
"It's almost like you are walking in wet concrete. I feel like I am almost paralyzed on what to do," he said.
Brent has lived at Lakeside Pointe in the Nora neighborhood for nine-and-a-half years. He's debated leaving, but said it's not that easy.
"I keep having hope that something is going to change. That is can't get any worse," Brent said.
But on Monday morning, he woke to find the letter in his door.
"I opened the door and it fell on the ground. I was expecting it to say they are turning the water off for two or three hours or whatever. When I read it, my stomach sunk," he said.
The utilities are bundled with the rent, making residents wonder where the money is going.
"I have paid over $60,000 in rent and it's like 'Where is the money going?'" Brent said.
The leasing office posted a correction of the notice on their door, but at the time, no one was inside to comment.
Aloft Management, who manages Lakeside Pointe, provided the following statement to 13News:
"Our company is currently working close with Citizens to come to a good resolution to continue to give our residents the utilities they need.
In the last couple years we have done everything in our power to repair several exteriors on the property as well as several interiors and will continue to do as many repairs as possible to make sure our residents are taken care of.
Pre-Covid our property had certain services such as translation Saturdays and a food pantry out front. We had also been working to add additional classes.
Once Covid came we were unable to hold the classes and different programs due to the pandemic. This is during the same times our city was shut down.
This last year has been extremely difficult for our country let alone many properties.
In regards to the fires we have done everything possible to work with the IFD as well as IMPD. We have shared as much information as possible to help catch who has been causing these fires on the property and will continue to do so. We really feel it is very unfortunate that certain people feel the need to damage or destroy our property and risk other individuals lives. We have also spoken with local police and offered to set up a substation on property to help combat some of the problems in the area. We are currently awaiting response from them."
State lawmakers are also getting involved, asking Attorney General Todd Rokita to expedite their investigation.
Representatives Fady Qaddoura and Carey Hamilton sent a letter requesting the state shift ownership of the property to a different private group.
"Our ultimate goal is not state ownership of this property, rather the shifting of ownership from one private owner to another private owner with the reputation and credentials to keep the property operational and our constituents safe," the legislators wrote.
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Local utilities stepping up cybersecurity amid growing threats


Pearl Granet: late of York Township, to Ilona S. Granet.
Jane T. Cuskey: late of Spring Garden Township, to Sue Ann Dorwart Fullmer.
John V. Williams: late of Shrewsbury Township, to Edith M. Gordon and Julia A. Williams.
Llewellyn D. Miller: late of Heidelberg Township, to Timothy D. Miller and Lisa A. Blevins.
Jesse Donald Arnold aka Jesse D. Arnold: late of North Hopewell Township, to Sandra J. Arnold and Jerry S. Arnold.
Charles D. Sunday: late of Manchester Township, to June L. Sunday.
Joyce R. Kintzing aka Joyce Ann Kintzing: late of Hanover, to Lynn L. Robinson and Timothy Niles Holland.
Raymond J. Parsons aka Raymond James Parsons Jr. aka Raymond J. Parsons Jr.: late of North Codorus Township, to Lucas K. Parsons.
Barbara A. Simmons: late of Manchester Township, to Melissa A. Bates and David A. Simmons.
Doris A. McCarthy aka Doris Gilbert McCarthy: late of Springettsbury Township, to Deborah L. Gilbert.
Richard S. Mundis: late of Lower Windsor Township, to Tina L. Mundis.
Robert W. Smith: late of Dallastown, to Michael A. Daugherty.
Charlotte R. Avery: late of Windsor Township, to Kathie L. Avery.
Kaye L. Leinaweaver: late of Monaghan Township, to Patti Ann Hinson.
Wilmer B. Fridinger: late of Dallastown, to Barbara A. Murphy.
Jack W. Smith Jr. aka Jack W. Smith: late of Manchester Township, to Beverly Ann Summers.
Nicholas Benjamin Merryman Hardy aka Nicholas M. Hardy: late of York City, to Randolph Willson Hardy Sr.
Betty M. Diguglielmo: late of Hellam Township, to Tina Diguglielmo.
Janet M. Smith: late of Hellam Township, to Kevin T. Smith.
Robert G. Ulrich: late of Lower Chanceford Township, to Bruce W. Harber.
Lorraine D. Raffensberger aka L. Raffensberger aka L.D. Raffensberger aka Lorraine Delores Raffensberger: late of York City, to Scott K. Raffensberger.
Vale C. Welsh: late of Lower Windsor Township, to Robin Christine Welsh.
Charles L. Haga aka Charles L. Haga Sr. aka Charles Lee Haga Sr. aka Charles Lee Haga: late of Windsor Township, to Louise C. Haga.
Jonathan Andrew Shanberger: late of Fawn Grove, to Lucille A. Shanberger and George A. Shanberger.
Melvin James Pugh Jr.: late of Mount Wolf, to Leslie A. Pressel, Michael J. Pugh and Shelly M. Centini.
Ruthellen E. Shenberger: late of West Manchester Township, to Richard E. Shenberger.
Gary Earl Lauer aka Gary E. Lauer: late of York Township, to Garrett D. Lauer.
Mary E. Kindig: late of Springettsbury Township, to Craig A. Kindig.


France is one of the most modern countries in the world and is a leader among European nations. Since 1958, it has constructed a presidential democracy resistant to the instabilities experienced in earlier parliamentary democracies. In recent years, its reconciliation and cooperation with Germany have proved central to the economic integration of Europe, including the introduction of the euro in January 2002. At present, France is at the forefront of European states seeking to exploit the momentum of monetary union to advance the creation of a more unified and capable European defense and security apparatus.
French Application of the New European Blue Card for Immigration of Skilled Foreign Employees : A valid competitor to the American Green Card ?


News is about the exception. A car driving down the main street of your hometown is not news. But let that "radio on wheels" run into something and that's news.
It's the same with radio listening. The fact that 92% of the population of America listens to radio every week is not news, but finding out one of them listens to something other than radio grabs the headline.
It was just a year ago that Millennials outnumbered us Baby Boomers. That was news, because the Boomers have ruled the roost for several decades. So how does radio listening stack up for the Millennial generation? 91.3% of Millennials are reached by radio every week. 94% of GenX'ers are reached by radio and us Boomers come in at 93.5% reached by radio every week according to Nielsen.
MediaLife magazine just reported on what's really happening with Millennial media usage versus what many believe is happening. Example: Newspapers – more Millennials read a newspaper once a week than use a tablet. Another example: Radio – more Millennials crank up the radio (80%) than have an MP3 player (45%).
What you might find surprising is that Millennials aren't swooning over Satellite Radio, smartwatches and connected cars. In fact, Millennials would rather ride share or use public transportation than even own a car.
It was Thomas Kuhn who is credited with coining the term "paradigm shift." He defined it as changing from a set of beliefs or views that members of a community all shared.
It's hard to predict the future and many of the models people develop to predict levels of risk really miss their mark. Two examples are the Fukushima nuclear disaster where the "experts" said a twenty-foot wall would protect the plant from any Tsunami. However it was a twenty-four foot wall of water than would take out the plant. And everyone knows that insurance companies are in the business of predicting risk, its how they come up with the premiums people will pay them. So how did AIG miss the financial collapse in 2008 that would bring down the company?
Procter & Gamble aka P&G is a huge company. They primarily make cleaning products; soap.
When commercial radio was born in 1920, P&G was quick to move their advertising monies from print to radio.
When the internet came along, P&G was a leader in moving their ad monies from traditional broadcast to online.
Except this time, it didn't work as it had in the past.
"Procter & Gamble Co., the biggest advertising spender in the world, will move away from ads on Facebook that target specific consumers, concluding that the practice has limited effectiveness.
Bob Hoffman, "The Ad Contrarian" has been predicting this for some time. He recapped his prediction on a recent one of his blogs that you can read here.
The problem with today's "targeted advertising" is that it misses lots of targets. Great advertising works, in part, because it's sloppy. By that I mean it produces results because it reaches a large and diverse audience through a mass medium like radio.
Radio is the number one reach and frequency medium in America today.
I've advertised on radio stations I've run for help for positions we had open. What never ceased to make an impression on me was how many people I'd interview who came in for the advertised position and had never heard the ads. How did they know about the opening? A friend of theirs who heard the ad told them about it. That's what I mean by advertising being sloppy. That's what I mean about hitting the target even when you are not aimed at it.
The one thing that is critical is your advertising copy. Great copy will produce results on virtually any radio station. It's not about being on the most listened to station in the market that will produce results for the advertising client, it's the radio message itself that will make the difference. Next, it's the ability to deliver that message consistently day-in and day-out, fifty-two weeks a year.
Radio has always been the advertising medium that gets results when used correctly.
To be successful, you need to build your brand in the mind of the consumer. Radio let's you whisper in the ear of the consumer every day.
Radio will not only help you build your brand but keep it top of mind too.
The "breaking news" is target marketing is OUT.
Mass media sloppy advertising is IN.


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In the Same Breath è un documentario del 2021 diretto e prodotto da Nanfu Wang.

Trama
Il documentario mostra la risposta dei governi cinese e americano alla pandemia di COVID-19.

Produzione
Nanfu Wang è ritornata negli USA dalla Cina, dove ha viaggiato per il Capodanno cinese, poco prima dello scoppio della pandemia di COVID-19, per lavorare su un altro progetto, lasciando suo figlio in Cina con sua madre. Successivamente, con l'inasprirsi della pandemia, Wang ha iniziato a preoccuparsi e a cercare informazioni sulla pandemia in Cina, le quali erano per la maggior parte false. Aveva inizialmente intenzione di realizzare un cortometraggio ma, dopo aver contattato dei filmmaker di Wuhan, si è resa conto che le storie della pandemia erano abbastanza importanti per essere invece un lungometraggio. Successivamente ha incorporato la risposta americana alla pandemia dopo aver visto il governo diffondere disinformazione. HBO Documentary Films è entrata successivamente nella produzione e distribuzione del film.

Distribuzione
È stato presentato in anteprima mondiale al Sundance Film Festival 2021 il 28 gennaio 2021. È stato anche proiettato al South by Southwest nel marzo 2021. È stato distribuito in maniera limitata il 12 agosto 2021, da HBO Documentary Films, prima della sua trasmissione su HBO il 18 agosto 2021.

Accoglienza
Su Rotten Tomatoes il film ha un indice di gradimento del 96% basato sulle recensioni di 50 critici, con un voto medio di 8,40/10. Il consenso della critica afferma che: "Avvincente e puntuale, In the Same Breath coglie la storia mentre viene scritta e i fallimenti governativi mentre amplificano la tragedia mondiale".

Manohla Dargis sul New York Times ha definito il film "uno sguardo chiaro e nitido sulla pandemia" che "fonde vividamente il politico con il personale". Richard Brody sul New Yorker scrive che il film "è un fervente lavoro di reportage, pieno di rivelazioni scioccanti sia a livello ravvicinato ed esperienziale che a livello di statistiche e tendenze generali". Sheri Flanders su Chicago Reader ha elogiato la regista perché "è stata abbastanza preveggente da inviare telecamere nascoste negli ospedali, nelle case e negli obitori per catturare la verità e l'angoscia, per poi seguire il virus, e il pasticciato insabbiamento, in America".

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Film documentari statunitensi
Film sulla pandemia di COVID-19

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import java.util.List;

import org.mifos.customers.office.business.OfficeBO;
import org.mifos.customers.office.persistence.OfficePersistence;
import org.mifos.customers.persistence.CustomerDao;
import org.mifos.customers.personnel.business.PersonnelBO;
import org.mifos.dto.domain.OfficeDetailsDto;
import org.mifos.framework.business.AbstractBusinessObject;
import org.mifos.framework.business.service.BusinessService;
import org.mifos.framework.exceptions.PersistenceException;
import org.mifos.framework.exceptions.ServiceException;
import org.mifos.security.util.UserContext;

/**
 * for data retrieval use {@link CustomerDao}.
 */
@Deprecated
public class OfficeBusinessService implements BusinessService {

    private OfficePersistence officePersistence = getOfficePersistence();

    protected OfficePersistence getOfficePersistence() {
        return new OfficePersistence();
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    public List<OfficeBO> getOfficesTillBranchOffice() throws ServiceException {
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        } catch (PersistenceException e) {
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    public List<OfficeBO> getBranchOffices() throws ServiceException {
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            throw new ServiceException(e);
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    public List<OfficeDetailsDto> getChildOffices(String searchId) throws ServiceException {
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            return officePersistence.getAllofficesForCustomFIeld();
        } catch (PersistenceException pe) {
            throw new ServiceException(pe);
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Get down and funked out with this energetic drum and bass funk groove with a syncopated rhythm guitar, two five string basses, and a rock drum kit that lays down a great dance beat. There one bass smacking out a melodic slap beat and another is way low down for some beefy bottom. 116bpm.


Ukraine, so dear to my heart, is the heir and treasurer of the behests of St. Prince Vladimir, the baptizer of Rus.
Moscow, August 25, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has greeted Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko on Ukraine's Independence Day.
"Once and again I am calling on you to do everything possible for the speedy termination of bloodshed for the sake of all residents of Ukraine," the patriarch's message of greeting says as quoted by the Moscow Patriarchate website.
The patriarch is convinced that Ukraine vitally needs peace and civil harmony, unity around Christian values and a national-wide dialogue through which people of varying views and convictions separated by the confrontation could take actual part in determining the future of their fatherland.
"Ukraine, so dear to my heart, is the heir and treasurer of the behests of St. Prince Vladimir, the baptizer of Rus. Largely for this very reason its people is meant to demonstrate an example of godly life following the God's truth. It is indicative that Ukraine holds one of the leading places in the number of churches among the countries with a predominantly Christian Orthodox population," the patriarch noted.
"I believe and hope that in the very nearest future Ukraine will become a prosperous country the people of which will not suffer from the consequences of sinful human will," the message says.
On Sunday the patriarch conducted a liturgy in St. Nicholas Peshnosha monastery in Moscow region. During the service he prayed for the memory of the killed and for the recovery of the wounded in the church of St. John of Kronstadt in Kirovske, Donetsk region.
Earlier reports said that a shell brought down the roof of the church on worshippers. As a result three people died on the spot while the priest, his wife and four parishioners were hospitalized with injuries.


And there is this backdrop of the news. Every single day seems to bring more tragedy, hurt, and heartbreak. It comes in many forms—from earthquakes and floods and mass shootings to sexual abuse and domestic terror and all kinds of silent screams and secret suffering.
This is only the tiniest sampling of a Very Big Truth. Here's what it has looked like in my life lately. When I am at my weakest, I feel His strength all the more powerfully. When He is all I have in the loneliest places, I want to know Him more and more. It turns out the view from the couch—or the radiation or ophthalmology waiting room—is clarifying.
It's a deeper Thanksgiving this year. Oh, don't misunderstand me. The tangible blessings I have to count are endless. With six great kids and eleven precious grandchildren (just for starters!) I have more than enough to focus on in the "seeing the glass half full" department. All of us who live with full bellies and warm homes and accessible medical care have myriad blessings to count.
Indeed. The Lord gives songs in the night. Day or night in your "land," sing with me this Thanksgiving.


Stephen F. Austin 72, Wiley 66 - Kevin Broussard scored 23 points and Jereal Scott added 18 as the Lumberjacks defeated the visiting Wildcats on Wednesday night.
Stephen F. Austin led by 21 in the second half, but Wiley rallied to within 70-61 after Kenny LaGuerre's jumper with 2:34 remaining. But the Lumberjacks bled time off the clock and added two free throws.
TCU 77, Lamar 72 - Kyan Anderson scored 15 points and J.R. Cadot added 14 to lift the Horned Frogs to a home victory over the Cardinals.
TCU led most of the way, taking its largest lead of 12 points late in the first half.
Lamar State-Port Arthur 74, San Jacinto 73 - A pair of free throws with 15 seconds remaining was the difference as Lamar State-Port Arthur downed the visiting Ravens.
Baylor 91, Texas Southern 39 - Brittney Griner had 23 points and 14 rebounds for her fifth double-double this season and the top-ranked Lady Bears stretched their home winning streak to 27 games with a victory over the Lady Tigers.
It was the 30th double-double in 79 career games for Griner. The 6-8 junior played only 22 minutes, making eight of 14 field goals and seven of eight free throws.
Texas Tech 85, Texas State 40 - Kierra Mallard scored 18 points, Shauntal Nobles had a double-double off the bench and the No. 19 Lady Raiders beat the visiting Bobcats.
Mallard scored 14 after halftime for Texas Tech, which led by at least 30 most of the second half. Nobles had 10 points and 12 rebounds as Tech's reserves combined for 36 points.
Tyler 86, San Jacinto 58 - Jaleesa Allen had 20 points and 12 rebounds for San Jacinto, but host Tyler got the victory.


Last Thursday, Bill Charneski and I met with that great company in Texas. And it really is a pearl.
This company has an extensive international network and very solid governmental connections. If the acquisition goes forward, it will be a major upgrade of our global business.
And we know there's synergy, because they already work with our Progressive and Modular divisions!
A deal. So far, just a handshake and that's all it can be, until we finalize.
Where do we go from here? A lot of detail work, leading up to the disclosable, definitive agreement. If it happens at all, it's going to take a few more weeks.
So... I'm quite optimistic. But — don't bank on it!
I don't usually pin any hopes on Big Deals. We've heard our share. This business is a running game, not a series of long passes.
But, there is a country in our hemisphere with a large population and a real water problem. The party in power has promised to solve the problem.
We're in talks with a team that says it has the relationships with the party in power, and has the money to roll out our tech in that country.
They asked me, "Riggs, what is your own goal?" And I answered that my ambition is to get onto the NASDAQ. They were OK with that.
But a little while later, I said, "you know, my real ambition is to make a real difference in water. To really change the way things are done in this industry."
And you know? That's the answer they were looking for. They are pretty cool, and I personally think this particular Big Deal may happen.
OK - so that's the news for this morning. I see on our dashboard for this morning that Progressive and Modular — and our own Technology division — are doing extremely well in the new year.
So join me this Thursday, January 31 at 5PM Pacific Time, and I will discuss how it's going.


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Peter Goodyear
Australian educational research – getting your facts right
April 18, 2013 December 18, 2020 petergoodyear
On the 19th March 2013, Alan Tudge MP, made a speech criticising the quality of educational research in Australia. The text of the speech is here. It includes the following statements.
"We are spending billions on education research, but it is not having the impact it should. Worse, our education faculties are failing to be engines for ideas at a time when school outcomes have dropped despite a huge increase in public funds for school education."
"… it is a waste of public money if education research is not of a high standard and is not having impact. Over the last decade $1.7 billion has been spent on education research. It is a sector that has been growing steadily each and every year and now employs almost 3,000 people. If the ARC's report is indicative of the decade, then we can say that nearly a billion dollars has been spent on below standard work. What would an extra billion dollars have achieved in, say, biotechnology, a research field that is universally at or above world standard?
… education faculties are not having an impact at a time when high quality, evidence-based research is desperately needed."
Bernard Lane, then working at The Australian, approached the Australian Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) for comment. I prepared the following notes for ACDE and the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE).
Since the notes were written, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) have reversed some of the decisions that made educational research's footprint unnecessarily hard to assess in the ERA exercises.
The number of free-standing education faculties has continued to diminish.
Notes from 26 March 2013.
Point 1: ERA's definition of Education isn't what Alan Tudge means by Education
Alan Tudge appears not to understand that the ERA definition of educational research doesn't align with how universities are organised internally. We (AARE & ACDE) conducted a survey last year to learn more about what's behind the ERA figures.
It turns out that around 40% of the educational research assessed in ERA2010 and ERA2012 was produced by people who do NOT work in departments/faculties of education.
Much of this research is being conducted by other university academics as part of improving their own approaches to teaching – these people are found in all departments/faculties. Their research is not about schools – it's about higher education, which is generally judged to be an Australian success story.
Also, not all the research done in education departments/faculties is labelled Education in ERA. The classification system used in ERA (designed by the ABS) excludes the following from Education: educational psychology (including how people learn), educational policy (including how to design and manage better education systems), sociology of education (e.g. understanding how social disadvantage effects educational outcomes).
The ABS defined Education in such a way that these key areas are NOT included in the statistics or the ERA results for Education. Some of Australia's most prolific educational researchers (esp. in psychology of education) find that their work is not classified as Education by the ABS and ERA.
Point 2: He hasn't caught up with the fact that there are very few free-standing departments & faculties of Education any more.
Most are mixed into larger social science and/or professional education schools/faculties. His 'aunt sally' (or the straw man he's trying to attack) isn't there any more.
This makes it harder than it used to be to identify someone as being 'from Education' – so when Mr Tudge says that 'education academics are missing' (from debates in the print media) one wonders how he knows who is from Education & who not (or even, whether that's a sensible question any more).
Point 3: The international footprint of Australian educational research has put it among the top 3-4 fields of Australian research during the last decade – the period during which Mr Tudge reckons we were wasting money. ARC Annual reports, on several occasions during the last decade, have used the success of education research as an indicator of the international visibility of all the research ARC funds.
Point 4: Education research (on the ERA definition) is underfunded compared to other fields/disciplines.
ERA2010 data showed that for every (full-time equivalent) Education researcher there is around $17k of funding per year; the equivalent figure for Studies in Human Society (sociology etc) is $36K, Economics $44k, Biology $90k, Medicine/Health $152k per full-time equivalent researcher.
Point 5: Education (FoR13) has improved 2010-2012
Using the ARC ERA data, 12 universities have improved their rating, 3 have gone down. There's no room for complacency, but these are encouraging signs of improvement.
Peter Goodyear, Professor of Education, University of Sydney. (Led a joint AARE/ACDE initiative 2011/12 on building Australian educational research capacity.)
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10.02.2015 - Sabine Brantus, Laurent Crouzeix, Ben Gibson, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Jan Naszewski
Help, I've done a great short film! Producer Sabine Brantus (ARTE), festival programmers Laurent Crouzeix (Clermond-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) and Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Tampere Film Festival) and distributor Jan Naszewski (New Europe Film Sales), all passionately dedicated to the short form, talk about the different ways to present your short film. This panel will consider the reasons for and advantages of making a short, how to find the right presentation context and how to make the most out of your film through distribution, sales, festivals, etc.
Sabine Brantus
Both a German and a French citizen, she has been working at ARTE in the communication, production and editorial departments for 17 years. Before that she had gathered experiences in the media industry as a freelance journalist. She has been orchestrating the short films and the short film programme "Kurzschluss" / "Court-circuit" as an editor for six years.
Laurent Crouzeix
Laurent Crouzeix is the film programmer of the international competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where he also coordinates the short film co-production forum Euro Connection and various industry events during the Short Film Market. He manages the online platform Shortfilmdepot.com, which connects thousands of filmmakers with 60 festivals around the world, and implements partnerships with other festivals and markets.
Ben Gibson
Ben Gibson is the director of the DFFB film school in Berlin. He was previously director of degree programmes at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and a visiting professor at Goldsmiths. From 2001 to 2014, he was director of the London Film School. He is a former independent producer and was head of production at the British Film Institute from 1988 to 1998. Before that he was a distributor, exhibitor, theatre director, film critic and journalist.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso
Jukka-Pekka Laakso is the festival director of the Tampere Film Festival. He also acts as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a non-profit organisation that runs an arthouse cinema, distributes films in Finland and works in media education. On top of that he was a member of the Finnish National Council for Cinema.
Jan Naszewski
Jan Naszewski owns the Warsaw-based boutique world sales company New Europe Film Sales, which sold the Icelandic film RAMS (Un Certain Regard Prize 2015 in Cannes, sold to over 50 countries), alongside many acclaimed debuts, animations and short films (10 Oscar-shortlisted titles, including 2017 winner SING and shorts by Ruben Östlund). Jan regularly acts as an expert for festivals, the European Film Academy, Creative Europe and EAVE.
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Six Celebrities Cleared of Serious Criminal Charges
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Everybody dreams of becoming rich and famous. Though the downside of being in the spotlight could be living your life under a microscope, sometimes, being a celebrity can be useful! At least, that was the case for these celebrities accused of some serious crimes.
Some of these celebrities were cleared of the criminal charges sooner, however, some of them still have open investigations with no convictions so far –
1. Snoop Dogg:
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Snoop Dogg aka Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr (also called Snoop Lion or Snoop Doggy) is a famous American rapper and songwriter. He began his rap career in the 1990s and has gone to become one of the richest rappers in the world with a net word of 150 million USD.
The Alleged Crime
In 1993, Snoop Dogg and his bodyguard McKinley Lee were initially accused of first-degree murder of a gang member Phillip Woldermariam. Snoop even appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards to proclaim his innocence.
The trial was filled with multiple inconsistencies as witnesses initially lied to the police. It was also discovered that the LA police department accidentally destroyed some evidence found on the scene. Despite the evidences, the jury declared Snoop and McKinley as not guilty, and they were acquitted in no time.
In 1994, snoop released a song with an 18-minute movie titled 'Murder was the case' where he played a gangster who is shot by his rivals. The song resulted brought him new-found fame with the album 'Doggystyle' selling over 4 million copies. In the end, this incident only resulted in making Snoop more popular as a rapper to the point where he is still actively working in the industry.
2. Salman Khan:
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan, widely known as Salman Khan, is a popular Indian actor, producer and television personality. The superstar is considered as the 'bad boy of Bollywood' due to the numerous publicized controversies and affairs that he is involved in. Despite this, he is also popular for his charitable acts with rumors stating that he gives away most of his earnings to multiple charities.
In September 2002, the Bollywood superstar crashed into a bakery in Bandra killing one person while injuring four. After the investigation, Mumbai's Sessions Court announced five years' of imprisonment for Salman Khan, but he got out on a quick bail and appealed against the conviction in the Mumbai High Court.
The HC disregarded numerous witnesses and announced that Khan's driver Ashok Singh was driving the vehicle. One of the biggest mysteries in this case was why Ashok took 13 years to announce that Khan wasn't driving the car. In December 2015, Khan was acquitted of all the charges claiming there isn't enough evidence to prove him guilty.
3. R. Kelly:
R. Kelly (full name Robert Sylvester Kelly) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer who has been dubbed as the 'King of R&B'. One of the most successful R&B singers of all time, his reputation has been tarnished by multiple allegations of sexual abuse and creating a sex cult. The severe allegations resulted in people boycotting his music.
As of 2020, R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty to 13 sexual abuse charges. At the age of 27, Kelly secretly married his 15-year-old protégé Aaliyah in the year 1994. Though their marriage was annulled later, another singer accused Kelly of sexual misconduct when she was only 15. Soon after, Kelly was arrested on accounts of child molestation when the police found videos of him having sex with underage girls.
While multiple women came forward and accused him of abuse, Kelly was found not guilty, and he enjoyed a very successful music career. After the famous #MeToo and #MuteRKelly movements, a six-hour docu-series 'Surviving R. Kelly' was released on Lifetime in 2019. Following the public protests against Kelly, he was dropped from his label RCA (Sony Music).
4. Michael Jackson:
Michael Joseph Jackson aka the 'King of Pop' is one of the most beloved icons in the pop music industry. The multi-talented entertainer has been an inspiration to many young artists over time. However, his personal life has been filled with multiple controversies. There were also rumors of him being a part of the Illuminati Group.
One of the most shocking moments in pop culture happened in the year 1993 when the superstar Michael Jackson was accused of sexual misconduct by a 13-year-old boy, Jordan Chandler. In December 1993, Jackson's sister La Toya Jackson announced that the abuse allegations were true.
In 2003, Jackson was arrested on accounts of child molestation after the police raided his famous ranch 'Neverland'. The case went into trail in 2005 but Jackson was acquitted of all the charges. Years after Jackson's death in 2009, Wade Robson and James Safechuck filed suits against Jackson's estate.
HBO released a two-part documentary 'Leaving Neverland'. The documentary tells the stories of Wade Robson and James Safechuck who claimed that they were abused by Jackson for years. It shed light on multiple allegations stating how Jackson shared his bed with multiple young boys. Five such boys accused Jackson of sexual abuse. It was also found that Jackson had a collection of adult erotic material including a study of naked boys.
5. Sean Combs aka P. Diddy:
Sean Combs, (Sean John Combs aka Sean "Puffy" Combs, Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and Diddy) is a popular rapper, actor, producer and designer who created an entertainment empire in the 1990s. The Grammy-winning artist has had a tumultuous criminal past including bribery, assault and allegations about ordering hits on other rappers.
In a case resulting from the 1999 shooting that took place in a Manhattan club, Diddy was acquitted of firearm possession and attempted bribery. Diddy and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez were celebrating the album release of his 21-year-old protégé, Jamal Barrow. Diddy and a club patron named Matthew Allen aka Scar got into a heated argument. Shots were fired and three people in the club were injured.
After the shooting, Comb and his entourage were found by the police in a sport-utility vehicle. The police discovered a 9-millimeter pistol in the vehicle. The driver Wardel Fenderson testified that the pistol belonged to Diddy. However, Diddy denied carrying a firearm. Later, Jamaal ended up being convicted of assault and possession of gun resulting into 25 years of imprisonment.
In the year 1996, Diddy's competitor Tupac Shakur was killed after he accused Diddy of setting him up to be shot. In 1997, Diddy witnessed Notorious B.I.G being gunned down by an anonymous attacker outside a party in LA. These shootings became the reason Diddy became the target of a federal investigation which remains open.
6. O. J. Simpson:
Orenthal James Simpson aka O. J. Simpson aka 'The Juice', is a former NFL player, actor, broadcaster and now a famous felon. After quitting NFL, he enjoyed a moderately successful career as an actor and broadcaster. He went on to have one of the most high-profile cases in the American legal history which was dubbed as the 'Trial of the Century'.
In the year 1994, the star was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson met his second wife Nicole while he was already married to Marguerite L. Whitley. Nicole accused Simpson of being physically abusive. At the 1989 New Year's Eve party, the two had a fight where he allegedly threatened to kill her. She later filed for divorce in 1992.
Nicole and Goldman were found stabbed to death outside her LA condo on June 1994. When Simpson became the prime suspect, he tried escaping by hiding in the back of a sport-utility vehicle. This event was televised live nationally. In the end, the law enforcement officers found him at his Brentwood home and taken into police custody.
In July 1994, Simpson pleaded not guilty and the jury was sworn in on November 1994. It has been cited as one of the most notorious criminal trails. The trial began on January 24, 1995, with the verdict being read on October 3, 1995. When Simpson was declared not guilty by the jury, it became one of the most televised event in the American television history with 150 million people tuning in.
Even thought Simpson was found not guilty, he was found liable for the deaths and was ordered to pay 33.5 million USD to the Browns and the Goldman family. In 2008, Simpson was found guilty of armed robbery, assault, kidnapping and few other charges resulting in Simpson being sentenced for 9 to 33 years in prison. Currently, Simpson lives in Las Vegas where he is serving parole for armed robbery. The 1994 murders and trial came back into spotlight in 2016 with the Emmy-award winning miniseries 'American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson'.
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ELCR?s Award Rewards A Passion For Preservation
Since I'm a member of the Board of Directors of the Equine Land Conservation Resource, the other day I received an email from our CEO, Deb Balliet. She was in New England to present our lifetime achievement award, the Anson W. Taylor Award, posthumously to Marge Kittredge, a grand lady who did so many wonderful things, and she was touring around equestrian sites in Massachusetts, visiting with other people who are deeply involved in equine land preservation. Before I continue, I have to offer thanks to people like Marge Kittredge, Natasha Grigg and Susanna Colleredo-Mansfield, and many, many others, for their efforts in trying to preserve a part of the country that was once at the heart of American horse country, in the English disciplines. (Deb visited the latter two women on her trip.) they've been up against it, living in an area squished between New York City and Boston and blessed (and cursed) by a surplus of transportation, on the highway, on trains and in the air. The mushrooming population and commerce of the last half-century has simply overwhelmed most of what once were green fields and lovely forests, many of which people on horseback enjoyed. Last night, I was on a conference call with the two other people on the committee selected to choose future Anson Taylor Award winners. Nancy Winter and Georgiana McCabe are each former ELCR presidents, and, like me, their primary equestrian interests have been eventing and foxhunting, the primary equestrian interests of Anson Taylor, one of the founders of the ELCR in 1997. Georgiana, Nancy and I are on this committee because we're the only board members who knew Anson well, and so our mission is to choose recipients who have his vision and his ability to accomplish the mission of land preservation to which he devoted himself. That morning, I'd been thinking about how the geographical center of English horse sports has moved south and west in the 30 years since I've been writing about them. In the first 10 or so years of my working for The Chronicle of the Horse, I went to Massachusetts (or Connecticut or upstate New York) several times a year to cover major competitions, but the last time I can recall going to Massachusetts to cover a horse trial was in 1990, when Ledyard Farm, in South Hamilton, hosted the biggest USEA Adult Team Championships ever held. When I mentioned that memory to Georgiana and Nancy, we became quite nostalgic what it used to be like around South Hamilton, Mass. In the ?70s and early ?80s, Ledyard Farm, owned by Neil Ayer, the USEA?s president for more than a decade and the man who designed the cross-country course for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was to eventing what Rolex Kentucky is now. Ledyard, in South Hamilton, was the biggest, best event, the only event that drew foreign competitors. But now, if you said ?Ledyard? to current eventers, I'll bet 90 percent would look at you blankly. Even my wife, Heather, who grew up eventing in California in the late ?80 and early ?90s, said she would have known about Ledyard if not for me. Neal?s vision was to create a great event, one that would sell the then little known sport of eventing, and that's exactly what he did. One of my most cherished photos (I'm looking at it right now, perched on my bookshelf) is of Neil driving me around Ledyard in a golf cart at those Adult Team Championships, even though he was gaunt with cancer. He was so proud to see lower-level riders competing at his farm, as proud as he had been to see World Champions and Olympic gold medalists competing there. He would leave us just a few months later. That may be just as well, because Neil was also an ardent foxhunter. And I suspect that, despite the passionate work of people like the ones I named above to preserve farms and trails, Neil would have been dismayed by the loss of so much of his dear countryside. He would have been horrified to discover that, aboard his hunter, he couldn?t follow hounds wherever they went or to discover that eventers in the South Hamilton area were hard-pressed to find places to gallop their horses today. Anson Taylor, who left us in early 2006, was a similar man of vision and action. Each could see things the rest of us couldn?t, and then they?d create structures (of various kinds, from organizations to buildings) to make them happen. Preserving open space to keep, ride and compete horses was among their life?s priorities, and their determination should be an inspiration to all of us who ride horses. Nancy, Georgiana and I look forward to honoring others who have that passion with the ELCR?s award. Do you know anyone to nominate' Go to our website, ELCR.org, to download a nomination form.
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Board index High Culture Music
POST YOUR MUSIC HERE and actually Listen too! (Rules in OP)
It's only cool if no one's heard of it.
Ashedfog
Re: POST YOUR MUSIC HERE and actually Listen too! (Rules in
Postby Ashedfog » Tue May 08, 2012 6:41 pm UTC
I originally posted this as it's own topic, but I was told to do otherwise. I figured this is the best place to showcase my band without breaking typically agreed upon rules.
IILS;YLS
It's really difficult for me to generalize what genre this kind of music should be classified as there's influences from many different ones. However, I would say math-rock and post-punk is the most consistent theme. I'm mostly hoping to manage to distribute this music to as many people as I can and maybe even get a bit of feedback.
Unfortunately my work firewall doesn't allow me to access newgrounds or youtube, so the last post I can comment on is the http://soundcloud.com/wildblackyonder music! I'm personally a fan of this folk/chill sound, I tend to listen to this kind of music more often when I'm reading something out in my backyard.
Postby Роберт » Thu May 10, 2012 2:37 pm UTC
Ashedfog wrote: I originally posted this as it's own topic, but I was told to do otherwise. I figured this is the best place to showcase my band without breaking typically agreed upon rules.
Hey, this is pretty fun stuff!
Nice bass tone. Fun, jerky rhythms. Cool! Post-punk fits, I think.
Postby Ashedfog » Thu May 10, 2012 4:45 pm UTC
Thanks Robert! Fun and fucking with the audience is our two biggest themes for that album. Our next one is going to be a play on Entropy. I think it'll appeal to a very few hardcore Math-rock fans in this world, darker heavier and far more complicated than I thought possible.
I can't wait to see if anyone else has an opinion on this shit!
Lawsome
Postby Lawsome » Sun May 13, 2012 6:26 pm UTC
Manhattans in Carolina is nice and smooth, the vocals in merrily and oblivious aren't great, I think that might be the mic.
Beautifully smooth guitars throughout.
Now Kilroy the great is on. Again, the vocals are not fantastic, but the chords are beautiful.
My attempt at fusing chiptune and blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKhJ_e_JuUw
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Are you certain of that?
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Postby Роберт » Mon May 14, 2012 4:47 pm UTC
Lawsome wrote: Manhattans in Carolina is nice and smooth, the vocals in merrily and oblivious aren't great, I think that might be the mic.
What program is that? It sounds like you're just using very basic synthesis techniques (as might be used on an old sound chip). But the program itself looks pretty basic. I was expecting a VSTi in a DAW. This is pretty cool, though.
Postby Lawsome » Tue May 15, 2012 6:57 am UTC
Роберт wrote:
Famitracker. It simulates how music was player on the NES
Postby Роберт » Tue May 15, 2012 4:44 pm UTC
Lawsome wrote: Famitracker. It simulates how music was player on the NES
Awesome. I just looked it up and that stuff could be run on the actual hardware. Nice.
Postby Lawsome » Wed May 23, 2012 8:47 pm UTC
I need to get a better software really, I am rapidly boring of famitracker.
McGrupp
Postby McGrupp » Mon May 28, 2012 9:42 am UTC
Lawsome wrote: My attempt at fusing chiptune and blues.
I did not know you could bend notes like that in "chiptunes"! I guess I just never listened closely enough to my NES. Anyway, it sounds cool as hell. I like that very brief almost "fugue" section after the "bass solo" at the end. Good voice leading too, and equally tempered thirds just seem to sound so good in 8bit musicland.
Here is one of the bands I play bass in right now - very "21st century" jazz fusion, but we take on some classic tunes:
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/artist_songs/2051218
TommyRiordan
Postby TommyRiordan » Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:10 am UTC
My favorites are two E's .
Enrique and Eminem.
One is a talented singer and other is a legendary rapper.
I love to listen their songs.
Postby Adam H » Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:38 pm UTC
Soooooo sweeeeeet! I wish I could do stuff like that. Do you guys play it well live? If so I'd pay to see you...
McGrupp wrote: Here is one of the bands I play bass in right now - very "21st century" jazz fusion, but we take on some classic tunes:
Quality recordings! I like them all. Well, the live raps weren't my cup of tea, but other than that I liked it all. And it sounds like you're hilarious live.
I added a few songs since I last posted here... I got a pop filter and it makes a big difference. The Devil Won is just random (was going to be acoustic folksy... dunno what happened there), Blanket of Black Umbrellas has a middle section that I'm really proud of, and Attic is a creepy sad slow one.
Maraki
Postby Maraki » Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:51 am UTC
I love the vocals Adam! The harmonies have a nice, clear sound to them. I especially like "Attic" - although to be honest, sme of your music sounds too... pop singer/songwriter for me, which while not being a neccessarily a bad thing, it just isn't the sound I dig. You have a nice sonority to your stuff, though, especially the vocal harmonies. Sometimes (especially when you get 'edgier') you almost have an early Incubus-esque vibe to you.
I have a rough demo for a song my yet to be 'Facebook official' prog/power metal band made (I'm the bassist/lead vocalist/main songwriter), here it is. I wrote this piece in it's entirety, and it's probably one of the 'poppiest' pieces I've written - I tend to be a little out there with my writing style. The guitar solo isn't recorded yet, and all the guitar parts are recorded by our rhythm guitarist/other lead vocalist and I (if you listen you can hear one of the gallop sections is fingerstyle distorted guitar xP).
Postby Роберт » Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:30 pm UTC
Sounds pretty cool!
Something tells me whoever mixed this was listening on something that doesn't reproduce stuff < 100 Hz well. Drums need a touch more low end impact (snare, kick and toms all) and bass could use a bit of taming in that area. Pads are a little loud relative to the guitars.
Postby Maraki » Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:22 am UTC
It's a very rough mix by me done entirely on a pair of listening quality headphones, it was done more to have the parts in my head completely remembered rather than to be listened to. It came out decently enough to where I think it *can* be listened to, but that was never the intent.
If I end up having to mix it myself (and hopefully I can do so in my friend's home studio that's equipped with some good monitors) I will keep that in mind. It probably doesn't help that the drums are just a run-of-the-mill soundfont instead of a real recorded drum set - I was rather unhappy with the kick and toms, although I couldn't really pinpoint it - thanks for the tips!
boXd
Postby boXd » Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:51 pm UTC
I'm not quite sure why, but I think the music would fit nicely as a Final Fantasy boss theme of some sort. I actually liked it. My main point of criticism is that around 1:10 it sounds slightly 'messy' for about ten to twenty seconds, and the same happens around 1:50 - this doesn't make it sound bad, per se, but it's not exactly my 'style' of music. Other than that, I liked it.
Recently, I've found a new favourite song: Passenger - Let Her Go. The singer has a nice, slightly non-refined voice, which I like. He also makes extensive use of the acoustic guitar and some more colorful instruments.
Of course, this means I'm going to listen it a thousand times over after which I will probably hate it.
Postby Chaoszerom » Tue Dec 25, 2012 9:07 am UTC
Maraki: As boXd said, the first bit is definitely boss-themey, and pretty cool. For my tastes, at least, either the guitar is too distorted/noisy or the drums are too clean (maybe both). The middle bit sounds like a completely different song to me: different beat, different vibe, and I'm not sure about the mix of grainy-distorted guitar and plucks (though I think that's more a matter of taste). The third bit sounds like a different song again, and the sound is well done there (very "save the world" sorta thing). So basically, each part of the song has an interesting and well made-sound (minus mixing and such), but it doesn't really seem to fit together to me.
I haven't made anything in a while, and what I have made is really derpy (I'm learning to handle the DAW, but even after a year or two I still can't get my ideas onto paper/screen properly), but I'll put this here, and also this. All electronic stuff, but more recently I've been doing EDM, because EDM drums are easier
Postby Роберт » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:19 pm UTC
Sounds great! I wonder if the tempo should be a touch slower for "flow". It sound like it could be a bit more relaxing and "flowy" if you dropped the tempo a bit. What tempo is it now?
Ulterior has some really fat synth sounds. Nice.
Postby Chaoszerom » Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:53 pm UTC
At current the tempo is 165bpm, and it was supposed to be a proper liquid DnB song (like this (also mine!)) but that quite come through. Dropping the tempo to 150 and dimming the hi-hats sounds a bit different, and dropping it to 100 makes it an entirely different song, but in some ways an improvement Ulterior's synths are nice, but the drums are crummy
Postby Роберт » Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:47 pm UTC
For some reason, the tempo on light feels "right" but on "flow" it seems too fast. Obviously it's all subjective. "Light" is very nice.
Postby Maraki » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:18 am UTC
You could drop the lead parts back a few milliseconds (to taste) and make the pads down more, and perhaps humanize the drums.
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Postby Voekoevaka » Wed Apr 10, 2013 9:46 pm UTC
There is a lot of worh behind it ind I found the rythmes very interesting. I love the manner it switch from one tune to another", and the exploration of different styles in just one track. And, is "F# A# infinity" a reference to Godspeed you ! Black Emperor ?
I first click on the link and listed to the tracks. What I thought was : "ow the bass is pretty cool", and then I notice you're the bassist. All I can say is congrats.
This music reminds me also Keziah Kones in some ways.
I'll finish it by sharing one of my songs, called "Damayale Stories" (made in an acoustic style).
http://soundcloud.com/o-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1-12/02-damayale-stories
I'm a dozenalist and a believer in Tau !
Postby Lawsome » Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:05 pm UTC
Voekoevaka wrote: I'll finish it by sharing one of my songs, called "Damayale Stories" (made in an acoustic style).
Great start. I like the timbre. Feels a bit Spanish, somehow. Quite sorrowful.
Vocals come in, everything is very sad suddenly. Are there lyrics being sung? I can't fully tell. It feels like an extra beat is being added at the end of every bar... It's a bit disorientating.
The continually thickening and thinning texture is a bit confusing.
In a sorta chorus bit, the textures more consistent now very nice.
Instrumental. Very cool.
Breakdown. I love the way the rhythms reform and then disintegrate in this piece.
Halfway through. I'm getting used to the 5 bar phrases, it's interesting, but having the whole texture break down draws to much attention to them.
The instrumentation is just awesome. I love the sound and feel of the piece. You really use the accompaniment.
6:06. Horns are nice. I can't believe it's gone on for this long, it hasn't felt like it. You keep things original somehow. The style is very strange, sort of Spanish, sort of folk, sort of western, but also a bit electronic. It really feels like plains and vast open countryside.
I love the style of it. Am going to listen to a few more of your things now.
(BTW How do you make the music? What program do you use?)
I tried to experiment a little, it's rather chaotic in it's mood, but I like it. https://soundcloud.com/lawsome1997/charge
Postby Voekoevaka » Sun Apr 28, 2013 10:43 pm UTC
Lawsome wrote: I love the style of it. Am going to listen to a few more of your things now.
Lawsome wrote: It feels like an extra beat is being added at the end of every bar... It's a bit disorientating.
Yes, the structure is a bit irregular on the verse : it is 5:5:5:6. On the other hand, the structure of the chorus is simple : 4:4:4:4.
I'm actually working on a new song "Hay Roses", where the structure is more regular (groups of 4 bars, 6 times per bar). But there's one part where the rythme is broken : the number of times per bar becomes : 11:10:11:11:10:11:11:10:11:11:10:12
Lawsome wrote: BTW How do you make the music? What program do you use?
I use FLStudio 10, and I mix the samples with DirectWave. I use samples I have collected from freesound.
Lawsome wrote: I tried to experiment a little, it's rather chaotic in it's mood, but I like it.
I like chiptunes. For me, what you called "chaotic", I understand this like "handsome". There are some parts that are beautiful and I wish to here this piece with classical instruments (like piano, or clavinet).
I have listened your track "We died", and I found this quite amazing. The crowd noise on the background makes it more dynamic.
Postby Chaoszerom » Thu May 16, 2013 6:09 am UTC
Lawsome wrote: I tried to experiment a little, it's rather chaotic in it's mood, but I like it. https://soundcloud.com/lawsome1997/charge
I've got to say, that's quite excellent. I am certainly not a connoisseur of classical music, but that is certainly a good piece piecewise (as a whole it... wanders a bit, but each section has drawing melodies and the whole piece is linked together). I can see some of those classical elements being used in a contemporary piece, in fact (might actually examine it myself for useful elements).
Unfortunately, I can't say I managed to make my way through this. I have no doubt that you have a good grasp of musical and melodical elements, but the timing threw me out too much (It's kinda what I get for listening to so much 4-to-the-floor/EDM music :P)
I haven't music'd recently, but I might as well post this, and see what people think. One person mentioned that, while the piano element was fun, it was lacking in travel, and I'd say he's right.
Postby Maraki » Thu May 16, 2013 8:40 am UTC
I really like Voekoevaka's piece! I love all of the acoustic instrumentation and meter changes and rhythmic changes - I feel like you handled said changes with panache and flair! I wish the vocals were more crisp and up front, I think maybe the enunciation could be better or maybe you could mix it with *more* sibilance, or just more overall top-end frequencies. I also think you could've either shortened the piece or thrown in a key change - it was (and I mean this in the nicest way possible) hard to listen to the whole thing, and I like to listen to 30 minute songs when I have the time (i'm a big Dream Theater fan).
And Chaoszerom, I thought your piece was pretty cool, albeit simple and repetitive (but I feel that way about virtually *all* electronic music in that sort of style - I guess its a genre thing). I like the sounds and samples you used, and I thought they way you took the overused 'filter on drums' thing and did a few interesting things with it, like using it to get the drums out of the way of a solo, etc.
Now to share some of my things... I hope it goes better than last time xP I'm going to share two things, hopefully I'm not breaking too many rules!
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4867 ... Shadow.mp3 - This tune is a sort of prog-rock tune that's still in the making - it's demoed here with electric instruments, but I think you guys and gals can get the gist of it.
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/486705/Unseen.mp3 - This one is a highly experimental, free-time a capella tune that I record with a USB mic and some VSTs (reverb and some automatic harmonies to create a drone, mixed lightly with the non-pitch changed vocals) in about 45-60 minutes, and some of the pedal tones came out gravelly (especially at the end), at the 2 high D's could've sounded better if I had taken the time to redo them, but as it is I think it came out pretty good. The lyrics follow a story of a guy falling in love with a girl in his dreams - if it has a dreamy quality, well, that's what I was going for!
Postby Voekoevaka » Tue Jul 09, 2013 4:31 pm UTC
By listening to chaoszerom piece, I feel there was a lot of interesting ideas in there, like putting the piano at the end, to make a "cycle" effect.
In some terms, I agree with Maraki, the problem with most electronic music is that as people can simply copy/paste parts of their song, it makes them lazy and it makes the music repetitive, and for me it is an obstacle to feel it really alive.
But I appreciated your piece becouse you managed to make it not as repetitive as most electro music I heard, and because you inserted in some good melodies.
Maraki, your first piece really like a combat video-game music. It is full of surprises, and I like those 5/8 bars and those metal-like tunes at the end of the song. But I found the second one more deep and beautiful.
It makes me want to sit down and close my eyes.
It looks like ethnic chants, and I love ethnic music of all styles. What VST did you used to optain this reverb ?
In my case, I have sinished my album, entilted Hay Roses. It is a 40 minute-sized album with four songs of ~10 minutes each one.
01 - Spare Me Fucking Imparity : Originally a piano piece I composed last year, it is an instrumental piece, to open the set. It is an alternating of parts with an echoing theme fropm piano to violin. I used brass and guitar to give it a medieval tone, and I added a bandoneon to cement the different parts.
02 - Damayale Stories : You already know this song, a sort of flamenco with irregular bars. It ends with oversaturated drums and overreverbed flute some shamanic trance inspired me.
03 - The Old Sheppard Wind : A song surround by two instrumental parts which sounds between chinese music and classical. The song itself is led by a piano and a contrabass.
04 - Hay Roses on Your Song : The most atypic piece of the set. A sort of mix between celtic, arabic, tango and gypsy, made with 3 parts.
Postby Maraki » Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:54 am UTC
Hey, Voekoevaka. I'm about 3/4 through your album, and I already love it! It might be cool to collaborate on something if you're interested (I'm also a fairly skilled bassist and french horn player, an amateur tin whistle player, and you've heard my voice and compositions). But anyways, this is very good stuff, I'm going to share it with all of my friends who are into folk music and the like!
The reverb in that tune is a mixture of the free DuckVerb by MDSP, and the also free GVerb (or maybe it was FreeVerb - they're both essentially the same, and very simple reverbs) from the LADSPA collection of plug-ins. But mainly the reverb tone is from the DuckVerb, I just sort of smoothed things out with the other reverb. The DuckVerb helps getting in a large reverb sound without mushiness, but sometimes it was too obvious, and since I recorded through the VST into Audacity (this was just a moment of inspiration that I was trying to capture, it wasn't originally intended to have any kind of public release, but I liked how the demo *felt*), I couldn't remove/twerk the DuckVerb, but just adding another reverb over it pretty much worked out. I'm not very good at mixing and whatnot, really. I'm a better musician and performer than sound engineer, for sure.
Postby Voekoevaka » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:21 pm UTC
Maraki wrote: It might be cool to collaborate on something if you're interested
It's a good idea ! If you have a project or something, I'll be glad to participate !
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Postby Aleril » Sat Jan 04, 2014 3:20 am UTC
http://churchchill.bandcamp.com
I made some ambient/minimalist stuff, I hope you enjoy.
NegativeN
Postby NegativeN » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:22 pm UTC
I'm not really a fan of ambient noise, but this music was actually pretty good! At least, it wasn't just effortless drivel. Actually pretty worth listening to. Nice job!
My music is on Newgrounds, as "Ketamine4Life." I consider myself an electronica musician.
Postby Voekoevaka » Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:37 am UTC
Aleril wrote: http://churchchill.bandcamp.com
As I was never interrested in mainstream stuff, I like to explore ambient music to see new experimental stuff. I listened your album, and what it evokes me is "this is a relaxing piece". This is not really into the "classical" notion of music, but this belong to an extended concept of "the music" : sounds which have something to tell, which have sense... I don't know if you are used to "ASMR stuff", but this is not far, those "noises" are something to listen when you have to think, to be in your imagination.
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NegativeN wrote: I'm not really a fan of ambient noise, but this music was actually pretty good! At least, it wasn't just effortless drivel. Actually pretty worth listening to. Nice job!
Can you give me a direct link, I can't find...
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If you wanna listen, my new album is here : https://soundcloud.com/o-1-2-3-4-5-6-7- ... oves-album
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Postby mildriot » Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:43 pm UTC
Cool Stuff Church Hill. I dig ambient too and minimalism too. Have you ever heard Tom Recchion? I love his stuff. You might like it too. Also, Kevin Greenspon is pretty interesting and you might dig that.
Location: Hoerikwaggo's sunset side
Postby Andries » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:12 pm UTC
Hey churchill - liked your music. Not depressing at all. Will check out your other stuff on Bandcamp
Postby Andries » Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:58 am UTC
OK, here is the final mix, I have to let go of it now.
Track actually was inspired by Randall's Philae Lander comic & includes samples from the ESA's soundcloud page
- Michael Senfft's treatment of the electromagnetic radiation detected by Rosetta
- The recording of the impact
- A soundbyte (by a member of ESA staff, I think), demonstrating the correct pronounciation of the comet's name
https://soundcloud.com/re_dream/spectru ... nder-remix
words sounds
TomtomandBill
Postby TomtomandBill » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:08 pm UTC
Andries - sounds neat. Yeah, it's definitely got a spectral feel, feels like something I'd like to relax and just vibe to. Cool stuff, good work!
Postby Andries » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:01 pm UTC
Anyway, here's another one. A piece based on automatically generated rhythms. Interestingly enough, a lot of African and other traditional rhythms are based on the Euclidian algorithm.
https://soundcloud.com/re_dream/presencing-original-mix
edit: final mix now up.
Postby Voekoevaka » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:49 pm UTC
Andries wrote: Anyway, here's another one. A piece based on automatically generated rhythms. Interestingly enough, a lot of African and other traditional rhythms are based on the Euclidian algorithm.
I listened to this, and I read the paper about euclidian rythms, and this is very intrersting !
I have read another paper about traditionnal rhythms, using an other construction but leading to a similar result, leading to the conclusion that for each time where there is a shot, the time which is at the popsite side (on the "circle" loop) is empty.
The music itself, I enjoyed listening : there is a true "naturalness" on those kind of rythms and you have exploited it very well. The melodic aspects that came after are good also.
Here is my last song : https://soundcloud.com/o-1-2-3-4-5-6-7- ... a-oldfield
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