Kraftwerk (album)

Kraftwerk is the first album by German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in Germany in 1970, and produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank.

Background

Chief Kraftwerk members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider used two drummers during the recording of the album; Andreas Hohmann and Klaus Dinger. Their playing provides the music with a rock edge. This proves to be quite distinct from Hütter and Schneider's previous band Organisation, or the following pair of Kraftwerk albums, Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf und Florian which were both recorded entirely as a duo by Hütter and Schneider. According to later interviews with Dinger, he plays on side two ("Vom Himmel hoch"), while Hohmann plays on side one ("Ruckzuck", "Stratovarius"), which was completed before Dinger joined the sessions.

The other instrumentation features Hütter on Hammond organ and a modified electric organ called a tubon (made by Swedish factory Joh Mustad AB), whilst Schneider supplied manipulated flute. The song "Ruckzuck" is driven by a powerful multi-dubbed flute riff, along with electric violin and guitar; these instruments often connected to further electronics via an Electronic Music Studios pitch-to-voltage converter.

Kraftwerk 2

Kraftwerk 2 is the second studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released in January 1972.

Background

Kraftwerk 2 was entirely written and performed by founding Kraftwerk members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in late 1971, with the sessions produced by the influential Konrad "Conny" Plank. Hütter later said of the album's recording:

Perhaps the least characteristic album of their output, it features no synthesizers, the instrumentation being largely electric guitar, bass guitar, flute and violin. The electronics on display generally belong to the realm of 1960s tape-based music more usually produced in academia, with heavy use of tape echo (for example the massed looping flute layers of "Strom"), and reverse and altered speed tape effects. Overall, the sound has a rather muted, twilit, dusky feel, similar in feel to "Megaherz" on Kraftwerk's debut album, as Hütter and Schneider explored the possibilities for electronic and auto-mechanical enhancement of their music.

Antenna

Antenna (pl. antennas or antennae) may refer to:

Science and engineering

Biology

Film and TV

Broadcasting

Antenna (film)

Antenna is a 1970 Dutch film directed by Adriaan Ditvoorst.

In this film was humorously parodied the hippie community. The story is about Aquarius, an eccentric lone artist who with a self-constructed smoothly over the Scheldt navigation. En route he comes on to a Catholic monastery in which conservative nuns hold sway. Within the monastery is a strict dictatorship, sex education does not exist and the freedom of the individual should succumb under the yoke of the faith.

The monastery also lives In the 18-year-old Antenna, which all her lifelong dreams of a life full of freedom outside the walls of the monastery. In Aquarius will see them however her rescue. Together with him she decides to flee, early morning sail them with their raft the River, on the way to a future of freedom and being together. While the raft in the fog disappears, there comes all of a sudden the next scene, we see a lonely hippie (which has of Jesus Christ) who lives on a farm. One day he draws as a kind of Prophet with his car in the country in order to proclaim the good news to everyone. He wants to love and bring peace to all and this he does by hand out free weed. The film ends in Amsterdam where the "drugsmessias" the Amsterdam rock temple Paradiso enter. Sit here between the hippie commune also Aquarius and Antenna.

Antenna (biology)

Antennae (singular: antenna) in biology have historically been paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods. More recently, the term has also been applied to cilium structures present in most cell types of eukaryotes.

In arthropods, antennae are connected to the front-most segments. In crustaceans, they are biramous and present on the first two segments of the head, with the smaller pair known as antennules. All other arthropod groups – except chelicerates and proturans, which have none – have a single, uniramous pair of antennae. These antennae are jointed, at least at the base, and, in general, extend forward from the head. They are sensory organs, although the exact nature of what they sense and how they sense it is not the same in all groups, or always clear. Functions may variously include sensing touch, air motion, heat, vibration (sound), and especially olfaction (smell) or gustation (taste).

Insects

Antennae are the primary olfactory sensors of insects and are accordingly well-equipped with a wide variety of sensilla (singular: sensillum). Paired, mobile, and segmented, they are located between the eyes on the forehead. Embryologically, they represent the appendages of the second head segment.