DJ /Rupture Europe Dates

Jan 29 Paris, FR. with Maga Bo, CIA Africa

Jan 30 Graz, Austria. Disko404. with Joker.

Jan 31 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Channel Zero

Feb 6 Berlin. dj set, Audio Poverty

Feb 7 Berlin. roundtable talk with Kodwo Eshun, Audio Poverty

U.S. Secretary of the Arts

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect
Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other
countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for
centuries, The United States has never created such a
position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the
arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this
important petition and then pass it on to your friends and
colleagues.

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Mosquitoe's ‘Harmonic Convergence’

Male mosquitoes are attracted by the flight sounds of conspecific females. In males only, the antennal flagellum bears a large number of long hairs and is therefore said to be plumose. As early as 1855, it was proposed that this remarkable antennal anatomy served as a sound-receiving structure. In the present study, the sound-induced vibrations of the antennal flagellum in male and female Aedes aegypti were compared, and the functional significance of the flagellar hairs for audition was examined. In both males and females, the antennae are resonantly tuned mechanical systems that move as simple forced damped harmonic oscillators when acoustically stimulated. The best frequency of the female antenna is around 230 Hz; that of the male is around 380 Hz, which corresponds approximately to the fundamental frequency of female flight sounds. The antennal hairs of males are resonantly tuned to frequencies between approximately 2600 and 3100 Hz and are therefore stiffly coupled to, and move together with, the flagellar shaft when stimulated at biologically relevant frequencies around 380 Hz. Because of this stiff coupling, forces acting on the hairs can be transmitted to the shaft and thus to the auditory sensory organ at the base of the flagellum, a process that is proposed to improve acoustic sensitivity. Indeed, the mechanical sensitivity of the male antenna not only exceeds the sensitivity of the female antenna but also those of all other arthropod movement receivers studied so far.




Mosquitoe Antennae

Podcast: DJ Olive Digs Into His Dub Collection

DJ Olive Dub Wire: Foggy Road Mix
random selections from Olive's dub shelves.
Here's the podcast.

DJ Olive Interview and Live Set

solipsistic NATION No. 75: DJ Olive, Live

Here's an interview and set from the archives. Talks with Olive about the tour in Perth and Tasmania that led to the release of DJ Olive "Live in Tasmania" and a wicked live set from that time period.

Here's the link.