Why is German TV so bad, most of the time, even though we have public broadcasting services that should be able to develop at least some formats of high social relevance and artistic value? Maybe because we lack the political and social issues that the U.S. has to struggle with. Take [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TV’
German TV doesn’t break bad
Posted in acoustic flotsam, tagged braking bad, film music, TV on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pierre Bourdieu – About Television
Posted in quiet readings, tagged media, quiet readings, TV on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This book is not explicitly about music or sound art, nevertheless it is a thoughtful examination under which circumstances the media is working. Though published in 1996 and based on two programmes Bourdieu produced for a private TV channel of France, the transcriptions of his TV-lectures are by no means dated but even more relevant [...]
I’m Andreas Bick. I compose and I work with sound. This is my acoustic notebook. You can find my thoughts about books and CDs I like and some sound recordings I did on the way. (I also practise my english writing skills here, so excuses for the mistakes I make...) Silent listening is about the fringes of music, the periphery where music turns into sheer sound - concrete, wild, sometimes stunningly beautiful.
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