Ben Romberg

Digital strategist and contributor to @CNNi @The_Veal_Pen among others Twitter: @benromberg

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

MLK, Jr.

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Modern Protest.

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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new is yet to be born. And in the interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Antonio Gramsci 

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There wasn't any limit, no boundary at all, to the future. And it would be so a man wouldn't have room to store his happiness

John Steinbeck. East of Eden

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The Gallery of Maps

The Gallery of Maps #vatican #museum

A photo posted by Ben (@benromberg) on Apr 1, 2016 at 3:10am PDT

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Q&A: Independent Label Market 2016: Sarah Bolshi from Sunday Best on the rise and rise of indie labels

Record labels in recent years have undergone a similar transformation as the beer industry. People no longer want the big brands, they want something local, new and independent. Craft beers and

Q&A: Sarah Bolshi from Sunday Best Records at the Independent Label Market 2016

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Convergence Sessions. Future Art + Social Ideas Exchange

Run Riot interviews Matthew Cook, Programmer & Producer behind Convergence Sessions. Into it’s third year, Convergence Festival is running a series of talks, workshops, exhibitions, perform

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Dicet Live: 大酒 ::: The Advisory ::: 24 October

Dicet Live: 大酒 ::: The Advisory ::: 24 October Friends of The Advisory warmly invite you to celebrate a night of good music and excellent vibes. Deep house and a tinge of Berlin-techno until the small hours.

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Creation is the fullest attainment of our transient spirits within the scope of our unfathomable paradox

Norma Tanega

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Ghost crabs on the beaches of Mozambique 

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If it works, it's obsolete.

Marshall McLuhan

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Gustav Klimt - The Tree of Life

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Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Sonar by Day 2015

The autonomous capital of Catalunya and Europe’s playground of expressive creativity plays annual host to Sonar Festival in eight weeks time. Of its three-day programme this year, ‘Sonar by Day’ on the Friday once again surfaces as our pick. Among a typically broad range of experimental composers and artists, Pen favourites Voices from the Lake are due to deliver a techno set rich in immersive elements and organic visualisations, ahead of their confirmed album release. Elsewhere, twenty-two year old Bristolian Sebastian Gainsborough (a.k.a. Vessel) makes his debut this year alongside fellow Brit experimentalist Klara Lewis, before headliner Tom Jenkinson (a.k.a. Squarepusher) unveils his new album ‘Damogen Furies’ via a new electroacoustic AV set. Our pick of the other Friday acts include Erased Tape’s Kiasmos, KTL (Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg’s collaborative project) and Austrian composer Dorian Concept (who’ll be making an anticipated appearance in Sonar Village. All in, a fine day of choice acts proves that the ambitious and pioneering musical spirit of Sonar Festival continues unabated. Ben Romberg

Date: Friday, 19th June 

Venue: Fira de Barcelona

Doors: 12:00 - 23:00

Photo of: Sebastian Gainsborough (a.k.a. Vessel) 

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RELATED POST: Sonar By Day 2014

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Interview: After Sonica Festival, Leafcutter John talks about his next album and his work with Polar Bear

Ben Romberg chatted to Leafcutter John (aka John Burton) after his set at Sonica Festival in Bethnal Greens Apiary Studios. He’s a renowned artist working with ‘computer music and use of samples 

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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

 John Cage (via berfrois)

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Good signal. Clear skies.