Happy Birthday! Ornette Coleman Turns 80.

Ornette Coleman was one of the great Free Jazz innovators of the 1960’s. His epoch-making record “Free Jazz” was released by Atlantic Records at the dawn of that decade. This all-star album features Eric Dolphy, Don Cherry, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Haden, Scott LaFaro, Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins. Coleman released over 50 LP’s as a band leader. His most recent record, “Sound Grammar”, was recorded live Ludwigshafen in 2005. It won the Pulitzer Prize for music. Shirley Clarke’s Film on realeyz.tv  Ornette: Made in America throws an interesting light on Coleman’s life and work.

THE FUGS release album with new material - featuring Tuli Kupferberg

Source: THE SIXTIES blog

Rock pioneers THE FUGS - the world’s first major underground/punk group - will release their final, and arguably best-ever studio recording - BE FREE! FINAL CD (PART 2), on February 23, 2010. (more…)

Build your own synthesizer - Hands on workshop at Schneiders Büro

Schneiders Büro – the analog synthesizer shop in Berlin featured in the realeyz.tv film TOTALLY WIRED is offering a “BingBong Mini-Synth” workshop for self-built synthesizers.

Every participant can built their own small synthesizer: The BingBong. It is housed in a little box including a loudspeaker. Additionally it has an output for other connections. BingBong has 3 oscillators (square wave), 1 is the sound source, 2 are modulating the signal. It also has an input for modulating the internal sound with external signals/sounds. BingBong runs with a 9-volt battery. Please bring your own soldering iron!!!!

HOLD THE PRESS! We have just received word that this particular workshop is already full and registrations are no longer being taken. But you can see if they have a waiting list!

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Berlinale: BLANK CITY - the New York No Wave film scene revisited

Céline Danhier’s documentary BLANK CITY uncovers amazing footage of Super 8 and 16mm film gems made in the late 1970s and early 1980s in downtown (Lower Eastside) New York. At that time, New York City was practically bankrupt (the federal government refused a bailout, somewhat comparable to the German Federal Court denying Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit’s request for financial aid) and in a state of urban decay and social strife. From this despair emerged a highly creative scene of filmmakers, musicians and artists - art as the only way out? (more…)

Berlinale here we come!

Hurray, the Berlin Film Festival begins today - and the realeyz.tv team is raring to go!

Natalie is especially looking forward to Aljoscha Weskott’s and Marianne Kesting’s Sunny Land - a documentary about Sun City, the “playground of the rich” in apartheid South Africa. She’s also interested in Oskar Roehler’s Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen, a feature film about the notorious the UFA Nazi propaganda film “Jud Süss” which didn’t have the effect the Nazis had planned. (more…)