Write about music and things happening in the place I moved to long ago. Plays guitar & records on the radio, sings, paints. Also on bluesky
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Last ever post here is my piss off! to the Nazi-saluting landlord of this place, account now in dormant/pre-deletion mode
You may have noticed the links to my playlists are pretty much the only thing I’m still posting on here, for obvious reasons. Find me over where the sky is blue.
Anyway, tonight from 22:00 CET (9pm GMT) my last @radiofm4 Heartbeat show this year:
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Tonight’s @radiofm4 Heartbeat from 22:00 CET / 9pm GMT is part 1 of my musical stroll through 2024.
Playlist here:
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TWO tickets remain!! 40th anniversary of The Lost Weekend. Don't miss the return of guitarist Foz, & hear this brilliant album in full. Live @thelexington London, 10 May. Support @robertrotifer Tkts wegottickets.com/event/63855…
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"Musik und KI – Eine Geschichte der Rückkopplungen." Eine @oe1-"Radiokolleg"-Serie zum Thema #KI von @robertrotifer. ... "The future's so bright we gotta wear shades!" (Timbuk 3)
Folge 3: oe1.orf.at/player/20241211/7…
Folge 4: oe1.orf.at/player/20241212/7…
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"Musik und KI – Eine Geschichte der Rückkopplungen." Eine @oe1-"Radiokolleg"-Serie zum Thema #KI von
@robertrotifer ... "The future's so bright we gotta wear shades!" (Timbuk 3)
Folge 1: oe1.orf.at/player/20241209/7… Folge 2: oe1.orf.at/player/20241210/7…
Interesting that Paul has spoken out and Kate has signed that petition against unlicensed scraping of music for training AI because I interviewed the guy who launched that petition for my radio series, and there he was in pt4 only this morning…
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Here he is, Ed Newton-Rex, insisting it can all be stopped if governments (people like Peter Kyle) don’t give in to tech giants, and there’s Holly Herndon disagreeing, but hopeful in a different way.
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Austrian (German-speaking) radio listeners: pt 3 in my Oe1 Radiokolleg series is all about stem separation, the reissue industry and how just when you think you’re boycotting all that fake tech-enabled stuff in fact you may be listening to exactly that.
oe1.orf.at/player/20241211/7…
Austrian (German speaking) listeners, if you missed today’s pt 2 of my series on music & AI, about the loss of identity of the machine itself: from Cybernetic Serendipity Music to the many moods of AI assisted songwriting.
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Austrian (German speaking) radio listeners: Today it’s the 1st of 4 parts in my ö1 Radiokolleg series on music & AI, which I promise is NOT the “computer wrote a song, could be a hit/I can’t believe Sinatra’s rapping” stuff you hear on the subject. Link:
oe1.orf.at/programm/20241209…
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Our favourite radio show with @robertrotifer, feat. John Cale, @helenganya, Misha Chylkova, CIAO Malz, morgen wird es schoen, Olivia Tremor Control, @richarddawson12, The Lilac Time, Delivery, Mirrored Daughters, Good Wilson, Ralfe Band, Cousineslikeshit.
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Mostly over there these days, but popping round to tell you my @radiofm4 Heartbeat show started a few mins ago. Sorry this is coming late, working on sth else same time... Anyway, here’s the link to the playlist and you can stream it afterwards of course
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Thanks to Stefan Zweig Zentrum Salzburg for asking me to write on the background to last year‘s album Holding Hands in Petrópolis / Stefan & Lotte & togetherness in dark times, in defiance or desperation. Now published in the latest edition of their beautiful little zweigheft.
This also gave me a chance to write about the vicarious role Austrian late & post-imperial literature plays for British readers in relation to the UK’s own loss of Empire, something I’d wanted to write about for ages. Contains quotes from @anicegreenleaf and @KeironPim.
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Magnificent @robertrotifer show feat. Potato Beach, @hhhendrixx, Laurie Styvers, @SonghoyBlues, Amen Corner, @TheKinks, Cindy Lee, @ExtraOrder, West 11, @michaelkiwanuka, The Creation, Cameron Winter, The Who, Talking Heads, VERETER, Giles, Giles & Fripp.
fm4.orf.at/player/20241118/4…
Tonight‘s @radiofm4 Heartbeat started a few minutes ago. It‘s half new music, half a tribute to Shel Talmy who left us last week.
Playlist here: instagram.com/stories/robert…
London people, the great @AmyRigby is playing tomorrow night at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington, with band (@ianbutton on drums, @thewreckeric on bass) plus @simonloverules in support, and I see there are still tickets.
Ridiculous, but good for you!
wegottickets.com/event/63061…
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RIP Shel Talmy who among his many other accomplishments produced this masterpiece, one of my favourite records ever: youtube.com/watch?v=brWIv2Sa…
I wrote a thing for @radiofm4 about how it's just not good enough to run for the next best platform in the face of fascism. And yes, the irony of posting this here... Auf Deutsch.
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