"membrane" the upcoming album by Dorninger is nearly finished.

Two tracks still make me quite a little bit unhappy (sound!???!) but all other tunes sound extra fine for me.

The music is based on recordings with microphones (-> membrane) and in most cases I only use quite "old" technologies like editing, eq's or pitch-shifting. Wild mind-expanding VST plugins are used very seldom, only 2-3 times on the whole album (like in "Asten").

The album will be released as CD plus a 12" vinyl record on base records. Out early october 2010.

Feel free to listen to "Micro-Move" to get a little idea how "membrane" sounds.

Rega Planar: My turntable!

Most of the people listen to music mobil!

As I wrote in some blog-entries before we have constant changes in the way we listen/consum/interact music.

When I was a kid I bought vinyl 12" records and seldom 7" singles (mostly from Ralph Records). Why? I love the album. Not the hit or song was my prefered music experience, no it was the album. I've spent many hours a day listening to albums alone or with friends to get not only a song or music. The artistic behind was the thing I was into.

"Lo": by The Smiling Buddhas

Feel free to buy some MB of DORNINGER music from different sources!

iTunes
Dorninger
Wipeout
The Smiling Buddhas

base shop
Aural Screenshots, Wipeout, The Smiling Buddhas

Amazon
Dorninger

A Celebration of the Grateful Dead with Fadi Dorninger

Akustikon: Rinus van Alebeek in front of the Akustikon in Linz, Austria

The Akustikon in Linz will close June 28th 2010!

This is the last information by the Akustikon. Only in German.

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Newsletter 06/2010
NACHRICHTEN AUS DER HÖRSTADT

Since today you can buy CDs from the portoguese label Crónica.

Do pass by at the base shop and buy some extrafine experiemental music / soundart CDs from all over the world.

"Nazca" by E.P.Kirch: Dieses Bild habe ich von Peter einige Wochen nach der Uraufführung von "Nasca, on perspective" (2006) erhalten.

Wie ich gerade von einem Freund Peters erfahren habe, ist am Mittwoch den 9.Juni 2010 Egon Peter Kirch (die meisten kennen ihn als Church) in seiner Wohnung an inneren Blutungen gestorben.

Freunde versuchen gerade eine würdevolle Verabschiedung zu organisieren. Das ist mit Hürden verbunden, weil Peter zu Lebzeiten schon keine Angehörigen mehr hatte und mangels eines Testamentes ein Notar über die weiteren Schritte verfügt.

Sobald ich Ort und Zeit der Verabschiedung erfahre, werde ich diese Angaben umgehend weiter geben.

You now we all live in a cloud call social media. Before media operated as sender. We decided what signal we take and that it was. When I was a kid we also had our networks, circles and social plattforms. Saturday night we always came together to listen, discuss and fight for our new records.
It was so simple. 10 guys (no women??!) talked about music, why they bought a record, why Eric Clapton is more boring than Leslie West, ???!! ......

Info about "Titel im Kopf, Klang im Körper Pt.2" here!

TIK2 - Rinus van Alebeek: Rinus van Alebeek in front of the Akustikon in Linz, Austria preparing tapes for the show (25.5.2010).

Rinus van Alebeek

TIK2 - Rinus van Alebeek: live at the Akustikon in Linz, Austria (25.5.2010)

TIK2 - Wolfgang Dorninger: Wolfgang Dorninger creating feedbacks at the Akustikon in Linz, Austria (25.5.2010).

Inside the SR-Archiv - 28.05.2010

As a founder of SR-Archiv österreichischer Popularmusik (short SRA) it is a pleasure for me to promote some actual data from the Austrian pop-music-database.

Total data-entries (28.05.2010): 377.663

23.005 Perso­ns (musicians, photographers, record label people, ...)
13.170 Records (Vinyl, K7, CDs, ....)
81.150 Songs
11.665 Bands
11.923 Articles (Reviews, Interviews, Articles, ...)
4.597 Magazines (pysical & added to the database)
5.042 AudioVisuul Media (without records) like videos, films, video-interviews, ...
1.383 Photos of musicians & bands

SR - Archiv österreichischer Popularmusik

As I wrote in my blog some weeks ago in April that the album is fading out - is dead, gone, history!

Digital downloads change the face of music production dramatically. It seams that in the iTunes world the song killed the album. What a pity.

Data:
Tunacore sold 2009 26,23 million songs but only 1,47 million albums. The RIAA data speak the same lanuguage: 1.388 million songs versus 76 million albums.
Nice graphics here.

In the days of vinyl and CD it was the opposite.

It seams that only connoisseurs and "snobs" will release and buy albums in the near future.

Ubuntu One Music Shop

Great! Ubuntu my favorite linux distro teamed up with 7digital to provide digital music in a price range from 0,79.- to 1,49.-€.

My music player RHYTHMNPLAYER has Ubuntu One Music Shop integrated in the GUI (Ubuntu 10.04) and as a Ubuntu One (cloud) user you can store the files already there. The sound quality of the mp3-songs ranges from 192 to 320 kbit/s depending on the price.
Payment is easy with creditcard or PayPal.

Bad: Until now there is no base records stuff available at the Ubuntu One Music Shop.

More bad: The 7digital indiestore is not available via Ubuntu One Music Shop. Please change this as soon as possible.

I LOVE TRACKTION!"

The last three weeks I was looking for alternatives for Tracktion 3.
Why? The last update was february 2008 and some bugs are not fixed since these days!!

BUT I DON'T WANNA CHANGE ANYHOW. I LOVE THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE.

more info here!

Peer2peer is killing the record-industry and the revenues of labels and artists. Digital copies too, ..... thats what we hear from the RIAA, IFPI and the record industry. There is a truth in their arguemnts for sure. But days before peer2peer people also made copies from their favorite radio shows, dubbed from their friends LPs. It happened the same like today but a little bit slower indeed, but people "downloaded" in a certain way.

Ernesto from TorrentFreak (full article here)brought in a different thesis based on statistics from the RIAA why the recording indtry is loosing markets and revenues.