Posted on: August 27, 2013
Posted on: March 27, 2018
“We’re functioning automaticAnd we are dancing mechanicWe are the robots, we are the robots…” (Kraftwerk, 1978). Kraftwerk’s The Robots, features on the band’s 1978 album Man-Machine. It reflects both the band’s cyborg-like stage theatrics, their futurist aesthetic, and society’s pre-occupation with mechanical and artificial humans. This fascination with robotic or artificial humans has presented itself in various forms for century’s. Such as Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk in 1769, the chess playing mechanical automaton (Collins & d’Escrivan,… read more
Posted on: October 11, 2018
New website design for The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE). The BFE is an association formerly known as the International Council for Traditional Music. As an Affiliate National Committee to the ICTM, their aim is to advance the study, practice, documentation, preservation and dissemination of traditional music and dance, including folk, popular, classical, urban, and other genres, of all countries.