Music

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CELT talk / WWW@15 on Morning Ireland / Ulrich Schnauss

Posted Fri, 05/02/2008 - 15:10 by John Breslin

A mixed-up blog post, but I haven't the energy to write three separate posts, so here's a three-in-one:

Jean-Michel Jarre performs Oxygene live in Dublin, 18th March 2008

Posted Wed, 03/19/2008 - 04:57 by John Breslin

I went to see Jean-Michel Jarre perform his first live concert in Dublin at the National Concert Hall (NCH) in Dublin tonight. It was great to see him at last, as I've been a fan of Jarre's ever since I first heard Oxygene 4 on the radio / TV as a child at the end of the seventies, coming across the piece later on in secondary school on one of our "Salut!" French learning tapes in 1985.

Inbox crises / JMJ / i102-104 tests

Posted Tue, 01/29/2008 - 20:24 by John Breslin

Inbox crises

After clearing another few hundred e-mails out of my inbox on the plane to London yesterday, and realising that Thunderbird's tagging of messages wasn't really doing anything useful for me, I've now created five subfolders of my inbox with various levels of priority. I hope this works better, because things have been out of control lately...

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JMJ

Brewster Kahle's (Internet Archive) ISWC talk on worldwide distributed knowledge

Posted Tue, 11/13/2007 - 08:57 by John Breslin

Universal access to all knowledge can be one of our greatest achievements.

The keynote speech at ISWC 2007 was given this morning by Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive and also of Alexa Internet. Brewster's talk discussed the challenges in putting various types of media online, from books to video:

Enya receives honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway

Posted Fri, 06/29/2007 - 20:28 by John Breslin

Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (Enya) was among six recipients of honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland, Galway at a ceremony held at noon today.

Lackluster's Lax EP - "an emotive slice of layered sounds & soothing electronics"

Posted Thu, 08/31/2006 - 15:02 by John Breslin

I've been listening to music from the new Lax EP by wonderful artist Esa Ruoho, also known as Lackluster. It is highly recommended and available to download from:

digilog.gr (net)label | diginet002

Here's a blurb from their site:

"Website is curbed in Oxegen row", Evening Herald, 26th July 2006

Posted Thu, 07/27/2006 - 17:44 by John Breslin

LEGAL THREAT: MCD stung by criticism

Website is curbed in Oxegen row

Evening Herald, 26th July 2006

by Mark Hilliard

MCD has sent a solicitor's letter to a popular website after several users criticised conditions at the Oxegen music festival.

Concert goers had flooded the site with numerous allegations relating to a range of anti-social incidents in the camp sites.

Ambient Zone Podcasts

Posted Tue, 11/29/2005 - 19:41 by John Breslin

I've created a podcasts section on my Ambient Zone site.

I hope to add many podcasts there from the electronica show on Galway's Flirt FM. As I don't know yet how to make the site "podsafe", I've decided to try and only use freely-available music (i.e. royalty free) on shows that will be made public in this podcasts section.

To start off with, I'm doing a special featuring music from the online record label (or "netlabel") Monotonik. Enjoy!

Tomita Music on Playstation 2 Advert

Posted Wed, 11/02/2005 - 15:55 by John Breslin

I was happily fiddling around connecting up some telephone wires in the hallway when I heard some music I recognised being played on TV in the living room. It was by one of my favourite musicians Isao Tomita and was his interpretation of Debussy's Clair De Lune, from the album Snowflakes are Dancing.

I rushed in to see what it was and there was a weird promo of some kind on, which I initially thought must have been for RTÉ 2 or something. Turned out it was an ad for Playstation 2. Cool!

Electric Picnic Aftermath

Posted Tue, 09/06/2005 - 15:06 by John Breslin

ELECTRIC PICNIC - 3RD AND 4TH SEPTEMBER 2005 - STRADBALLY HALL ESTATE, CO. LAOIS, IRELAND

Had a great time at the Electric Picnic on Saturday (overall), averaging the good and the bad. Pretty much the first thing that happened to me was that someone asked me if I knew where he could get some drugs, just a small amount. So maybe I have that look about me... I also met case_sensitive from boards.ie - he spotted me wearing my yellow boards.co.nz t-shirt.

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