Ode to Westlothiana
I sing thee, Westlothiana, mother of us all. You cannot hear my song; being embedded in the rock for 338 million years made you hard of hearing. Yet you heard; you were alive. It was a quiet time. Rain dropped...
Carnivorous Plants: An Introduction
To be considered carnivorous, a plant has to fit three criteria: actively attract and kill its prey, have developed a mechanism to digest it, and derive significant nutritional gain from the process. To be considered an ‘expert grower’ of carnivorous...
Playlist #20 (25-28 Feb)
25 February 2016, 8.30pm Occulto Night No. 1/16: Luca Sigurtà / She spread sorrow ACUD, Studio Raum (1st floor), Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin Yes, this is dirty self-promotion. Join! occultomagazine.com/occulto-night-no-116-luca-sigurta-she-spread-sorrow 27 February 2016, 8.30pm Alessandra Eramo & Michael Barthel |...
Occulto Night 2/2016: M.i.p.V pocket (Músicas Intermináveis Para Viagem), DuChamp
Occulto’s second music evening of the 2016 season features two of our favourite (and very different from each other!) guitars in town: the psychedelic post-rock trips of LauraL of Músicas Intermináveis Para Viagem meets the deep, hypnotic baritone guitar drone of DuChamp.
Playlist #19 (19-21 Feb)
19 February 2016, 9.30am Citizen Science in Historical Perspective MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Konferenzraum An intense day of presentations and debate dedicated to the history, the recent developments and the possible futures of Citizen Science, i.e. the active involvement...
Playlist #18 (11-14 Feb)
11-13 February 2016 Listening to the Archive. Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Science Various Venues, Berlin I discovered this when the official registration deadline (on February 4th) was already gone, and there’s no free spot left for...
Occulto Night No. 1/16: Luca Sigurtà, She spread sorrow
25 February 2016 8.30pm doors / 9.30pm concerts @ ACUD MACHT NEU (Studio Room, 1st floor) Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin (U8 Rosenthaler Platz) The first, very special O-Night of 2016 will host the performances of Italian electronic underground music hero...
Playlist #17 (20-24 Jan)
20 January 2016, 5pm BURP COMIX # 15 Release Rendez-Vous Staalplaat, Kienitzer Str. 108, Berlin + Balera Weinhandlung, Karl-Marx-Platz 6, Berlin Burp Enterprise is a multiheaded multiform entity responsible for no less than 25 years of research and experimentation with...