Two New Publications

Ulme-mini-verlag has published two new pocket books with additional CD-ROM. One in the edu-/infotainment section with the title "Zerstöre niemals ein Vogelnest" (Never Destroy a Birdnest). It contains bilingual poems (German/Dari) of the Afghan poet Ahmad Zia Hadi: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/edutainment.html.

The other book has academic content and focuses on the topic "Music between Virtuality and Materiality".

Five articles written by Klaus Martius, James Isabirye and Martina Claus-Bachmann try to approach the topic from different angles, from the perspective of conservational work in museums, from the subculture Steampunk, from the music instrument tube fiddle in Uganda, from music in Afghanistan and experiments to create eLearning environment for the Indonesian Gamelan in the virtuality: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/akademische_medienkombinationen.html.

New Virtual Academy at Space 4 Art in Second Life

The Private Academy for Cultural Studies PAKCS has a new home. On the sim Space 4 Art in Second Life our builder Asmita Duranjaya has created a special academy platform with the necessary media including a library. In the moment still the steampunk topic can be studied but there are also many other topics provided in the video collection. The next topic will be music in Afghanistan in cooperation with the Afghanistan museum in Second Life and its founder Trill Zapatero.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/45/24/1111.

Steampunk - now in English!

http://www.kuveni.de/steampunk/steampunk.htm - a profound analysis on the music of the steampunk culture by Martina Claus-Bachmann is now available in English thanks to the journalist Miriam Evanier! Don't miss this multimedia webpage with tons of audio- and video examples! Install the quicktime-plugin before use...