Festival for contemporary music, art and political discourse - 21.10. -26.10.2009Five nights packed with concerts, live acts, and DJs from all over the world. Five days of lectures, discussions, workshops, installations and performances from (independent) organizations, critical thinkers, activists and artists. Most events take place in venues carved inside the historic Schlossberg - the hill in the center of Graz. Here you can download the (german) Elevate 2009 Programmbuch (PDF,6.5MB,80 pages).
Jahcoozi demonstrated how they produce live tracks with help from Ableton. In doing so, their workshop covered subjects from beat programming to songwriting, right up to the final mix down, with every individual step clarified in detail along the way. Participants had Jahcoozi`s instruments at disposal (hardware & software)Workshop leader: Jahcoozi (Bpitch Control, Kitty-Yo / DE) http://www.ableton.com
Imagine running into The Clonious, that dude equipped with hundred headphones which directly interact with his musical epicentre. Think about an irresistible moment when a complex organic-mechanical clone process starts. A clone process which manifests in his very own, cartoonish superhero. The Clonious, heavily engrossed in details and obsessive perfectionism is the protagonist of an offbeat and - above all - fictional concept. He elegantly puts together the apparent inconsiderable and the cl...
The most important and consistently underrated space-rock unit of the '70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group that used everything from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils in their performaces. Continuing on as a duo, Moebius and Roedelius eventually recorded many landmark LPs -- separately, as a duo, and with all manner of guest artists from Brian Eno to Conny Plank to Neu!'s Michael Rother ...
The Elevate Festival Roundup Video #4 (Saturday/Sunday)produced by the FH Joanneum/Elevate Filmteam - Director: Dean Puckett
The Elevate Festival Roundup Video #2 (Thursday/Friday)produced by the FH Joanneum/Elevate Filmteam - Director: Dean Puckett
The Elevate Festival Roundup Video #1 (Wednesday/Thursday)produced by the FH Joanneum/Elevate Filmteam - Director: Dean Puckett
Erich Moechel ist Redakteur der ORF-Website Futurezone, die sich neben IT-News auch den politischen und sozialen Aspekten der neuen Kommunikationstechnologien widmet. So berichtete Futurezone diesen Sommer beispielsweise über die Möglichkeiten aber auch Gefahren des Internets während der Proteste im Iran. Moechel machte sich im Laufe seiner Karriere als Medienkritiker und Kolumnist einen Namen, war bereits mehrmals als Experte zum Thema Überwachung der Telefonnetze im EU-Parlament eingeladen u...
Gottfried Kirchengast studierte Physik, Geophysik und Meteorologie an der Universität Graz, wo er seit 1996 auch die von ihm gegründete Forschungsgruppe für Atmosphärenfernerkundung und Klimasystem leitet. 1998 erhielt er den mit 1,1 Mio. Euro Forschungsgeld dotierten START-Preis - den anerkanntesten und höchstdotierten Wissenschaftspreis Österreichs für Nachwuchsforscher unter 35 Jahren -, 1999 den Josef-Krainer-Würdigungspreis. 2003 wurde Kirchengast schließlich als Universitätsprofessor auf...
David Barstow is an American journalist who currently works for The New York Times as an investigative reporter. He started his career as a reporter for The Rochester Times-Union in upstate New York and began to work for The St. Petersburg Times in 1990, reporting on a wide range of issues. While there, he was a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes. In 1999 Barstow joined The Times where he covered the presidental election in 2000, particularly the Florida recount and wrote about financial aid f...
Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Beraterin studierte in Berlin, Heidelberg und Sāo Paulo und promoviert derzeit an der Universität Kassel zum Thema "Beratung für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften". Seit 1989 beteiligt sie sich regelmäßig an Projekten in Brasilien (Gewerkschaftliche Bildungsarbeit, Menschenrechtsarbeit), ab Mitte der 1990er-Jahre an verschiedenen selbstverwalteten Initiativen in Berlin (Umsonstladen, Interkultureller Garten Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg, Bildungsinitiative "Rückenwind" u.a.)...