Misia's Weblog

Posted by Misia at 5:00 PM | Permalink

Hi all! Thanks for a cool jam on thursday, it was really nice to have you over.

Here are some pictures by Paulina:

Flo and Arne deciding their tactics

The guys are enjoying, Jelena is trying out the xylophone :)

Jasiu taking a brake, he passed the mic to me ('Sing bitch!!-Jelena P.' :)) ) Arne trying to figure out the crazy keyboard :)

Jasiu preparing the trumpet, blurry me on the run.

what's so funny?? :))

give me the beat guys and ill hit this drum right on!!!

If I were Hawaian, yabidibidibi.....

But men, where the hell IS Boston?

Posted by Misia at 3:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

The 5th module of our curriculum is called New Public Spheres.

We will deal with the emerge of the new public spheres created in the new media like Internet. Public Sphere is a space between the state, the market and the private life where a discussion on the common good is led or at least should be. The final product of this module will be an article of 5000-6000 words on a public controversy on the Internet. I will soon post the outline.

Posted by Misia at 10:22 PM | Permalink

During the weekend we conducted very interesting interviews. Here are some pictures from our trips.

Waiting for Benoit in Cafe roi de Belges in Brussels. 18.12.2005, 15.05

Interview with Benoît Dobbelstein in Brussels, 18.12.2005, 15.30

Interview with Ronald Vanhuffel in Gent, 18.12.2005, 19.05

Ronald Vanhuffel's home studio.

Tired but happy, 18.12.2005 23.30

Serhan Berberoglu before his interview. 19.12.2005, 16.45

Jan Smeets, AKA Jasiu in his natural environment ( interviewed on 7.12.2005)

Jasiu with his 'group buddy', Flo, Sven and me on a Sint Nicolas Evening at his new place (picture by Paulina).

Posted by Misia at 6:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I never use the weblog for personal anouncements, but since a few people have asked about it I've decided to post the interview with my band, Très.B on my weblog. Hope you can learn something new from it and that my blabling bad mouth haven' t told you everything already:)

Three international UM students play in a band Très.B

It's all about the music

All three have the same passion and seem inseparable. When one of them moved from Denmark to Maastricht, the others came along. Last September, Misia Furtak, Thomas Pettit, and Olivier Heim started their studies in Maastricht. At the beginning of November, as Très.B, they won the jury's and the public's award at the annual student song festival in the Kumulus Theatre.

The student song festival was the second performance in Maastricht for Misia Furtak (23, Poland), Thomas Pettit (19, Luxembourg) and Olivier Heim (19, Luxembourg). It provided them with three hundred euros in prize money as well as participation in the Dutch national student song festival in Enschede in May 2006. "It was really cool," says Misia, Masters student of media culture. "The audience felt that we made difficult music accessible." Difficult music? "It sounds eclectic: we use different styles mixed together. Anything from trip hop (a combination of dance, rock and hip hop, ed.) to jazzy." Four numbers can be downloaded from their website, www.meettresb.co.nr, and it is true that the songs are difficult to place in any particular category.

The three met last year in Denmark, at the School of Music. Misia had just completed her Bachelors in journalism in Poland and decided that before she started on her Masters she would spend a year doing her favourite hobby: singing. Thomas and Olivier (both first-year students at the University College) have known each other since their first year in secondary school in Luxembourg and did not want to go straight into university. Thomas (half British, half Danish) knew about the Danish School of Music and because he and Olivier have been "jamming" regularly since they were thirteen (Thomas on drums, Olivier on guitar), the decision to go to Denmark together was an easy one to make.

Continue reading "Très.B in Observant" »

Posted by Misia at 11:45 AM | Permalink

Surfing on the internet I have found a text by Karin. It works like a hyper text, clicking on different links you are moved to different pages. I think it might be relevant for our study.

http://www.dichtung-digital.com/Wenz/30-Juni-99-C/english/narrativ.html

Posted by Misia at 7:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I've been wondering who is Blade Runner and why the cover of the book of Philip Dick I've got is so ugly. I mean the guy who is on the cover looks very much like the guy from the computer game..and both of the guys look like the character from the movie. I guess that after the movie the face of Harrisson Ford became the face of Rick Decard. On all of the drawings that I have found from "after the movie" it was so. But I have also found some drawings from "before the movie" and the old covers of the book. I found it very interesting.

I'm not sure I will write my final essay on Blade Runner though, cause I'm not a fantasy fan and maybe I will find and example that will suit me more. I'll look more in the area of interactivity, self-reflexivity and metafiction. Let's see what happens:)

Posted by Misia at 10:06 AM | Permalink

The name of this entry is the name of the last album of Oasis. Its not a brilliant album in my opinion but I like the name a lot and I think it's a good statment for a final summarizing of the modul. We should't believe in everything we see..

Posted by Misia at 12:38 PM | Permalink

this is a "thinking out loud" process.
I have liked a few art works in ZKM and I'm not quite sure yet whitch i should choose.

I hereby proudly present the candidates:

- pulse 8

- architecture and music laboratory

-bubbles

-interactive plant growing

-map of sounds

I'll think about it on the side..uff..

Posted by Misia at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)