SUNDAY:

Netiva Ben-Yehuda – Between Calendars
Netiva Ben-Yehuda – Between Calendars. Published in 1981 by Keter Publishing,
 "In 1948 we made history: what does it mean to make history?  On their armchairs in the clouds sit the visionaries and think up their ideologies, from platforms and balconies the leaders call the people, making declarations, in warm houses the "people" argue, give support, get excited, always ready, yearning for, while down below, in the field, on the ground 19-20 year old kids "our precious cannon fodder", sparsely numbered individuals – with their own body and spirit turn these mountains of words from chatter to reality.  And all of them, as one – are making history.  This is a very particular story of a 19 year old girl from the field and ground of 1948."    "Netiva Ben-Yehuda (not related to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda) was born on July 26, 1928 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She studied in the Hebrew University among other places. She joined the Palmah in 1946 and was discharged from the IDF in 1949.  Together with Dahn Ben-Amotz she wrote The World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang."   A short addition missing from the back cover:  This is the first book from Ben-Yehuda's trilogy about the '48 war. It's a piercing and moving documentary written from her point of view as she experienced and understood it during her service as a sapper unit commander and a warrior in the battle filed during the 1948 war. The following books in the trilogy are Through the Binding Ropes and When the State of Israel Broke Out. Other books she wrote are Jerusalem from the Inside and Autobiography in Poem and Song on which her 14.5 years running famous radio show Netiva Talks and Listens is based.
18/1/2009 3:07:49 PM
Length 01:04:13

Teder present War Frequencies
In relation to the ongoing war in Gaza, David Ovadia and Gal Tushia talk about War frequencies release in the label Teder. The War Frequencies project was launched on in the summer of 2006, following the outbreak of the war between the Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel.  The idea behind the project was to gather and present materials that were influenced by this particular war and relate to it. The initiative was publicized and soon thereafter various pieces, pertaining to other wars as well, began pouring in from around the world.
18/1/2009 6:01:46 PM 
Length 01:33:21

Giluz – Flipside
Giluz first cd, just released.
Time start 18/1/2009 7:35:07 PM
Length 00:29:32

Monday

Fool s Mass
Nathan Brand & Giora Kenneth
Fool s Mass – info    Giora Kenneth: Musician (Singer, Composer, Arranger, Guitar player), Dubbing artist.     Nathan Brand: Writer, Director, VJ.    The Fool's Mass radio show stats off with a project Giora and Nathan have been working on for almost 10 years.  Giora collected European music from the 11th-14th centuries. cut and pasted, re-arranged, composed new contemporary songs. Nathan wrote the lyrics.  Most of the songs talk about different manifestations of human stupidity.  The first Fool's Mass show is dedicated to the songs of the mass and other (wide range) of issues that concern our foolish audience.
19/1/2009 2:40:00 PM
Length 01:49:44

Tuesday

Ophir Ilzetzki introduces the music of the composer – Paul Dolden.
Paul Dolden is an electroacoustic music composer born January 23, 1956 in Ottawa, Canada, and currently living in Montr?al, Canada.
Paul Dolden began his career at age 16 as a professional electric guitarist, violinist and cellist. Since age 29 he has won over twenty international awards for his music which is performed in both Europe and North America. His approach to audio technology is to use it as a platform from which to launch otherwise impossible musical performances, thereby making his computer behave like a virtual orchestra. His compositions are characterised by a maximalist aesthetic in which hundreds of digitally recorded instrumental and vocal performances are combined in multiple layers.
Paul Dolden's early works employed a unified approach to timbral and harmonic variation, but under the influence of postmodernism, his concerns shifted to include the juxtaposition and superimposition of disparate musical styles. His Resonance Cycle of works (1992-96) are an example of this. In his recent Twilight Cycle Paul Dolden investigated contemporary new music-melody and dance rhythms; genres that are not normally associated with electroacoustic music.
20/1/2009 7:22:30 PM
Length 01:10:24

Wednesday

C.H.O.S.E.N
The gathering takes place in the framework of the exhibition 'Chosen' and will address the affinity between Messianism and Nationalism in Polish and Israeli narratives.    Conference Schedule:    Galit Eilat & Aneta Szylak – Opening remarks    Dr. Eli Shai – Portrait of the Messiah as an Artist  Dr. Eli Shai, cultural critic and independent researcher, has published numerous texts on the subject of Israeli literature and Jewish culture. He is author of the book, "The Messiah of Incest," a new uncensored history of the sexual foundations of Messianic Jewish Mysticism, and "Nada Nada," on the veracity of the falsely upheld Messiah. He is Doctor of Jewish mysticism and Israeli literature.  We can relate the alleged messianic character to the religious archetype, but in the specific case of Shabtai Zvi and quite possibly not in his case only, the messianic character manifests itself as the artist. Shabtai Zvi's primary expertise in the field of music is as a performing artist – and to be more precise, in the area of Romanza in Ladino, through which he improvises according to his hidden agendas.  Above and beyond his musical abilities, he is an actor in a theatre of personalities built around himself as the embodiment of the beautiful and the charismatic, and even as a man capable of burning, or literally in Israeli slang, "to light up" those watching. The image of the Messiah as an artist also raises issues in relation to his identity and personality as an object for art production.    Roee Rosen – Justine and Jacob Frank  Roee Rosen is an artist and author. He teaches art at The Midrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College, and at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.  Justine Frank (1900-1943) is a Belgian, Jewish artist and author of pornography. Her first European retrospective will open in January, 2009, in Extra City in Antwerp, her city of birth.  The artist Justine Frank was born in Antwerp in 1900 and died in Tel Aviv in 1943. Both Frank's paintings and the only book she authored, the pornographic novel "Sweet Sweat" (1931) feature a disturbing and uncommon juxtaposition of explicit sexual imagery and images related to Judaism. With the renewed interest in this forgotten artist, the motives behind her fusion of transgression and Judaism were understood in different interpretational contexts. The talk will focus on the affinity between Justine Frank and the Polish, Jewish mystic, Jacob Frank, in the context of the exhibition and discourse which juxtapose Israeli and Polish identities with Messianism.    Dr. Agata Bielik-Robson – The Apocalyptic Breeze: Nihilism as a Messianic Strategy  Agata Bielik-Robson is a philosopher and professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.  The aim of the presentation is to give a short philosophical outline of the messianic idea in Judaism, which influenced many revolutionary and anarchic movements in the history of the West, both Jewish and Christian, religious and secular. Most of all, d like to emphasize the highly specific internal link that connects Jewish Messianism with a certain version of nihilistic attitude which results in all sorts of antinomian strategies, aiming at shaking the metaphysical structure of the world and bringing it to its violent, apocalyptic end. This, as Gershom Scholem calls it, "apocalyptic breeze," which "airs the well-ordered house of Judaism."  By using the abstract foil of the messianic idea delivered by Scholem, I would like to juxtapose two modes of the messianic thinking: Jewish and Polish. I want to show how the Jewish Messianism influenced the political writings of the most famous Polish romantic poet, Adam Mickiewicz, and suggest that the difference between these two Messianism lies precisely in their attitude towards the issue of nihilism: while the Jewish thinkers tend to show in this matter a considerable daring, the Polish writers, who, because of their Catholicism, remain within the frame of providential metaphysics, usually refrain from a full embracement of the nihilistic and antinomian strategies and appear in contrast rather timid.    Yoav Kenny – Messiah Now! Giorgio Agamben and the Messianic Time of the Political  Yoav Kenny is writing his PhD in political theory at the School of Philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv. His Masters dealt with the relationship between time, law, and sovereignty in the works of Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben.  Though in recent years the political theories of Italian contemporary philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, have become widespread in intellectual and artistic circles, the primary role Messianism holds in his theories do not receive due credit. The talk seaks to explore the Jewish origins (Kafka, Sholem, Benjamin) of Agamben's perception of Messianism and to consider how it is used to describe the contemporary political condition of the West.
Length 02:21:48
Time start 1/21/2009 2:05:46 PM

Mini Marton Jewish Music
Oy Division, Talmudi Belitzki & Amsalem Trio, Trio Carpion, Hayona Ensemble – Recorded live at Levontin 7.
21/1/2009 4:28:46 PM

Thursday

Malox – Live at Levontin 7
Malox, a faulty spelling of the brand name antacid, is a duo headed by Israeli saxophonist Eyal Talmudi—a gifted player with eclectic tastes, who is very active in the alternative Israeli scene with such Balkan-tinged and Klezmer-punked up ensembles as Boom Pam, Balkan Beat Box and Oy Division, and avant-jam-rock outfits like Midnight Fish. Drummer Hagai Fresthman is an alumnus of Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger's bands, but also plays in dozens of other Israeli alternative ensembles, and is Talmudi's co-conspirator in this sonic adventure.
Length 00:53:11
22/1/2009 6:19:30 PM

The Unternationale Live at Levontin 7
Daniel Kahn, Psoy Korolenko, Oy DIvision Daniel Kahn: Vocals, Accordion, Ukulele, Piano, Music box. Psoy Korolenko: Vocals & Piano. Oy Dividion: Gershom Leizersohn – Violin & Vocals, Eyal Talmudi – Clarinet & Percussion, Avichai Tuchman – Double Bass, Assaf Talmudi – Accordion.
Length 01:23:01
22/1/2009 7:12:41 PM