Further Information: https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-213--mira-calix

Mira Calix provides a beguiling mix to celebrate her album a̶b̶s̶e̶n̶t̶ origin for Warp. Intertwining pioneering work from Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer and Harry Partch with contemporary artists, NY rap groups instrumental jams, shangaan electro, rapid footwork productions, spoken word freestyles and conceptual studies of modern sub/urban British life. Also featured is a poem performed by Rosie Middleton produced by Mira Calix and an exclusive track from the album a̶b̶s̶e̶n̶t̶ origin. It's a thrilling mix of far-reaching influence that rewards undivided attention... Enjoy!

Bleep Mix #213 - Mira Calix

A free press is a vital component of a healthy democracy, but across the Americas, journalists face a range of challenges, including physical violence, verbal attacks by elected leaders, and censorship. Meanwhile, economic factors, including conflicts of interest, have deprived many news consumers of independent reporting. In this episode of Americas 360, former U.S. Ambassador to Panama John Feeley joins our Wilson Center experts to discuss the state of the press in the Americas.

Episode 38: Don’t Stop the Presses: Threats to Journalism in the Americas

Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.

The Early Bird Show w/ Maria Somerville 070622

For many people in Africa buying a new computer is an unaffordable dream. But hundreds of thousands of people in richer countries regularly get rid of working computers for newer, faster models.

The government of Uganda is keen to make sure its citizens don't miss out on the chance to use information technology because they can't afford the latest PC – so it lowered import tariffs on used computers from abroad.

In Kampala, business is booming. But second hand technology can bring its own frustrations. Machrine Birungi has the details for InterWorld Radio.

IWR: Uganda - Are used computers a false economy?

In this episode, Media4Democracy talks to Maria Ressa about how she set up Rappler - the successful digital news platform in the Philippines - and then became subjected to a coordinated campaign of online abuse on social media, and the target of legal and political intimidation by the government of the Philippines. She talks about her work as an international advocate in the fight for media freedom and the need to reign in the power of digital authoritarians and the tech companies in order to protect freedom of expression and independent journalism, which led to her being awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize along with her co-laureat, Dmitri Muratov.

Topics

- Independent journanlism
- Rappler.com
- Digital News Platforms
- Newsroom innovation
- Facebook
- Disinformation
- Media freedom
- Lawfare

Links mentioned in this episode:

https://www.rappler.com
https://informationdemocracy.org/working-groups/concrete-solutions-against-the-infodemic/ * https://www.ifpim.org

The Media4Democracy podcast - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Maria Ressa

Warning: This episode discusses explicit adult content and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
This week we were joined by Bellingcat Researcher Kolina Koltai, discussing her latest research focus into nonconsensual sexual AI generated imagery and the communities and companies set up to create and distribute AI porn. Her research so far has led to restrictions on one company's payment providers and the closure of the discord server set up for their creator community. You can read her research into the company AnyDream here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/11/27/anydream-secretive-ai-platform-broke-stripe-rules-to-rake-in-money-from-nonconsensual-pornographic-deepfakes/ 
This talk was recorded on February 1st 2024 in the Bellingcat Discord Server. To join the server, download discord and visit www.discord.gg/bellingcat . Music courtesy of Artlist.

"The Secretive World of AI Pornography” with Kolina Koltai

To celebrate the release of @ethiopianrecords / የኢትዮጵያ - Ye Feqer Edaye / የፍቅር እዳዬ on Arcola, Endeguena has put together a killer mix for the Bleep mix series.

Ethiopian Records' - Listening to your heart - In a neocolonialist 4_4 world, is a 1 hour and 34 minutes sonic ode to the diverse, ever-evolving, resilient, unconquerable, loving spirits that walk his home planet and his home continent.  He does so with the help of all the sampled musicians. It's over an hour long mix of electronic performance and original productions. 

Pictures are courtesy of Mekbib Tadesse.

Sample list

Ahmed Sékou Touré
Aster Aweqe - Kabu
Gigi- Bati
Frewu Hailu- Eyetegnu Nequ
Letta Mbulu - Mahlalela
Seleshi Demesse - Woyne Nesh
Tinariwen- Arhegh Danagh
Getatchewu Mekuriya - Almaz yeharerwa
Aster Aweqe - Lishelemewu
Debo Band- Gorawu
Tsegaye Gebremedhin- Aba Geda
Asnaqetch Worku - Mengedegnawu Lebe
Jah Lude- Wegen Alegne
Eteneshe et le Tigre des platanes - Ambassel
Debo Band - Ambassel
Ethiopian Records - Aster (samples from Aster Aweqe - Bati)
Ethiopian Records- Massemessel
Ethiopian Records - Mehed Wode Feqer ( samples from Gigi-Gela and
Taddalla Gammachuu - Ebo)
Sileshi Demisse and Friends - Hoya Hoye (Ethiopian Records live Edit)
Frew Haylou - Eyetegnu Nequ

Tom Lavin's Album

Bleep Mix #28 - Ethiopian Records - Listening to your heart - In a neocolonialist 4_4 world

This is what it sounds like inside my head...

Strings Mixtape 1
Lucinda Chua x Alex Epton – Swan Lake 1
Douglas Dare – Whelm
Alex Epton – Then
Tierra Whack – 4 Wings
John Tavener / Steven Isserlis – The Protecting Veil III
Tayfun Erdem – Overtune
Claude Debussy – Beau Soir
Ravel / Beaux Arts Trio – Piano Trio III
Tirzah – Devotion (feat. Coby Sey)
Mansur Brown x Lucinda Chua – Slow Jam
[Cello interlude]
[Marianna voice memo]
Suokas - Skygger
Oneohtrix Point Never – Manifold
Alex Epton – Emilios Blotto
Lucinda Chua – Meditations On A Place
[Emily voice memo]
Joe Summers x Lucinda Chua x Zoe McPherson – Rooftop Clip
Lucinda Chua – Gentler

interlude : Jennifer Higdon: Piano Trio, Voices, Impressions
[Black Phillip speaks]

Strings Mixtape 2
Bud Powell - Dance of the Infidels
Shabaka Hutchings - What’s the Orbit of Your Navigation?
Wiki - Stairwell Freestyle
Gwilym Gold, Dave Okumu & Dan See - Mode
Skúli Sverrisson & Óskar Guðjónsson - Fragments
Lucinda Chua - Until I Fall [demo]
Ennio Morricone - Intervallo II [from Veruschka]
Dean Blunt - As Long as Ropes Unravel Fake Rolex will Travel
[Eliza Legzdina - Pop-Eye]
Talk Talk - The Rainbow
[Charlie Fox, Lucinda Chua - Wolf Choir]
[Chloë Sevigny in Surface by Michael Cleary]
Lucinda Chua - Feel Something [voice memo]
Ratkiller - Unapologetea Part 1
Arthur Russell - Our Last Night Together
Ricky Eat Acid - This is as Close to Heaven as I Get
Nina Simone - Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair
Mansur Brown - Mashita
Lucinda Chua - Contamination for Voice [from Worst Gift]
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Lucinda Chua - Whatever It Takes [Live at Laylow]
Ratkiller - Unapologetea Part 2
Ennanga Vision - New Sunshine
Benjamin Clementine - Phantom of Aleppoville
Yo Yo Ma - Cello Suite No. 6, Sarabande by Bach
Lucinda Chua - An Avalanche [for Strings]

Strings Mixtape 3
Cooly G - Love Dub
Vesce - Zender 
Lucinda Chua - Feel Something
Slum Village - And I Go
Photay - Outre?
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Bing & Ruth - Put Your Weight Into It

Strings Mixtape 4
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton - Heron Dance
[Arvo Pärt interview]
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today
Ennio Morricone - Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri
Lucinda Chua - Somebody Who
Oneohtrix Point Never - Explain
Cham Pang - Bella V
Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2
Suokas - Subsekvenser
Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor
[Nina Simone interview]
György Ligeti - Sonatina for Piano, 4 Hands II
Burial - Young Death
Arve Henriksen - Blue Silk [live]
[Frank O'Hara interview]
Yves Tumor - Limerence
CY AN - NOWKNOWING(H)
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music [excerpt]
Frippertronics on Midnight Special 1979
Pablo's Eye - I Have No Other Compass
Lucinda Chua - Semitones

Strings Mixtape 1 - 4

Algorithms have a huge influence on the way that we see the world. We increasingly understand news through social media — as libraries shut down more of our knowledge is found with the click of a search engine rather than in books or classrooms.

But the algorithms that underpin our every interaction with the digital world are not neutral. They are created by humans, and reflect the biases of the people who write them.

We hosted Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression, to discuss her recent book with Kirsty Styles for this live episode of the podcast.

If you want to find out more about this topic, check out:

Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression
https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/ 

Safiya Umoja Noble, Social Inequality Will not be Solved by an app 
https://www.wired.com/story/social-inequality-will-not-be-solved-by-an-app/

Sarah Roberts, Behind the Screen 
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235883/behind-screen

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/

Content warning: in this episode there is discussion of sexual content and pornography that some listeners might find offensive.

IWR: Uganda - Are used computers a false economy?

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