The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound

A broken upright piano, tilted like the sinking Titanic, stands part-buried in a garden at Glasgow’s Counterflows festival. Experimental composer Annea Lockwood swipes a hand across its exposed strings and beams at the metallic clang. “Great piano!” she says, inviting other musicians and the audience to make their own strange noises by scratching and tapping it with garden debris.

It’s one of many pianos Lockwood, 86, has buried, burned or drowned since the 1960s, exploring their changing sounds as they are destroyed – though she says “transformed”. A pioneer of field recordings, her work has ranged from “sound maps” of entire rivers to music made with the peace walls demarcating areas of mid-Troubles Belfast. As she revisits two significant works at Counterflows and prepares a new release of 1975’s World Rhythms, she takes me through her radical career from the very start.

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Long-running 80s sketch The Worm That Turned imagined a dystopian world run by women, inspired by the election of Margaret Thatcher. It has not aged well – yet it bears similarities to a brand-new movie

At the end of last week, a trailer dropped for a new Netflix movie entitled Ladies First. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike, the film is billed as a “playful satire” about a man who bumps his head and discovers that women have taken over the world.

And what a nightmare it is. There is a female pope. King’s Cross is now called Queen’s Cross. Baron Cohen discovers, to his horror, that he now owns a cat. Judging by the trailer he spends most of the movie getting waxed, wearing impractical underwear and being leered at by female cab drivers. At one point, after Baron Cohen starts a sentence with “If the board had any balls,” Pike speed-shouts: “The delicate sacks that dangle from your body, with the slightest tap sends you weeping to the ground?” by way of reply. If they gave out Oscars for doing your best with unscannable dialogue, she would be a shoo-in.

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Bill Foley – who also owns Bournemouth – thinks he can do better than Olivier Pantaloni but he may prove mistaken

By Get French Football News

“Why can’t we beat everyone?” asked Lorient owner Bill Foley earlier this month. It’s not the kind of fighting talk you are accustomed to hearing from a newly promoted side but, given that they have already beaten Lens, Lyon, Monaco, Rennes, and now Marseille at home, it is justified.

Lorient toyed with Marseille during their 2-0 win on Saturday, eliciting “olés” from the crowd as they knocked the ball around. The fans at the Stade du Moustoir are used to being treated. Lorient have lost just twice at home in the last two seasons. Not even Paris Saint-Germain took all three points when they visited earlier in the campaign. Marseille’s sporting director, Medhi Benatia, launched into a tirade after the match, denouncing his players’ performances as a “scandal”, but he should have shown more respect for opponents who have defied the odds this season.

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‘Its release seemed timely as the Tories had just left office. But then Diana died and all cheerful songs were taken straight off the radio. Boom! It disappeared’

John Lennon once said that everything he wrote was two songs in one. I’ve always stood by that. So you can take What a Beautiful Day at face value, like: “Oh, he’s having a lovely day.” But the song is essentially about revolution and bringing down the government.

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Housing secretary also targets Reform as May elections loom, saying Farage more interested in Trump than own constituency

The Greens have welcomed activists kicked out of Labour for antisemitic views and people should be “very careful” who they vote for next month, one of Keir Starmer’s most senior ministers has said in a notable stepping-up of attacks on Zack Polanski’s party.

In a double-pronged attack on the two parties expected to make big gains in the elections on 7 May, Steve Reed also accused Nigel Farage of being more interested in talking to Donald Trump then representing his Clacton constituency.

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​Goh, dat zagen we niet aankomen. Een paar uur nadat hij was losgekomen van zijn zandbank, is de Duitse aandachtshoer Timmy alweer gestrand. De komende tijd is hij dus weer verzekerd van flitsende camera's en zorgzame vrijwiligers.

Timmy lag de laatste weken net zolang op de zandbank tot hij in binnen- en buitenland in het nieuws opdook. Gehéél toevallig lukte het hem maandag ineens om weg te zwemmen nadat er maximale ophef was ontstaan over het besluit van de autoriteiten om de reddingspoging te staken. Nu ligt Timmy dus alweer 'kijk mij!' te roepen om zo'n vier kilometer afstand van zijn vorige fotoshootlocatie.

Het is nog een heel lange weg naar de Atlantische Oceaan, die ongetwijfeld niet vanzelf zal gaan. Onze voorspelling: Timmy zet uiteindelijk zijn eigen dood in scène. Geen zin in.

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Kunstmatige intelligentie wordt steeds meer gebruikt in onze economie en samenleving. Van industrie en zorg tot digitale diensten: AI verandert hoe we ondernemen en ons werk doen en gebruiken we steeds vaker in ons dagelijks leven. Om deze technologie veilig en betrouwbaar te gebruiken, werkt het kabinet aan het nationale toezicht op de Europese AI-verordening. Staatssecretaris Aerdts (Digitale Economie en Soevereiniteit) heeft het voorstel voor de uitvoeringswet AI-verordening vandaag in internetconsultatie gebracht.

Jarenlang hingen ze boven de snelweg tussen Rotterdam en Breda, nu in huizen en kantoren. In Rotterdam krijgen lampen die ooit de A16 verlichtten een tweede leven als designobject.

Jarenlang hingen ze boven de snelweg tussen Rotterdam en Breda, nu in huizen en kantoren. In Rotterdam krijgen lampen die ooit de A16 verlichtten een tweede leven als designobject.

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De Verenigde Staten willen invloed kopen door zorgdeals te sluiten met Afrikaanse landen. De landen die een overeenkomst aangaan, , betalen hier een hoge prijs voor. „Ze geven op deze manier in feite hun nationale bezit weg.”

Een nieuwe partij, opgericht door de voormalige president, won zondag met overmacht de parlementsverkiezingen in Bulgarije. Nu is de vraag in Brussel: hoe pro-Russisch en eurokritisch is Rumen Radev?

Russia suspended flights to Israel and Iran in late February following U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De beurzen in New York zijn maandag licht lager geopend. Beleggers namen geen risico na de sterke opmars op vrijdag, die volgde op de heropening van de Straat van Hormuz door Iran. De spanningen tussen de Verenigde Staten en Iran liepen afgelopen weekend echter weer op door de inbeslagname van een Iraans vrachtschip door de Amerikaanse marine. Ook sloot Iran zaterdag het scheepvaartverkeer door de Straat van Hormuz weer af door de aanhoudende Amerikaanse blokkade van de Iraanse havens.

De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,1 procent lager op 49.393 punten. De S&P 500-index zakte 0,1 procent tot 7118 punten en techbeurs Nasdaq verloor 0,2 procent op 24.409 punten.

De S&P 500 en de Nasdaq sloten vrijdag op nieuwe recordstanden. Wall Street kende daarmee een zeer sterke beursweek. Zo won de S&P 500 vorige week 4,5 procent, terwijl de Nasdaq ruim 7 procent wist te winnen. De techzware Nasdaq ging vrijdag zelfs voor de dertiende dag op rij omhoog.

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