inventors entrepreneurs and high tech professionals talk about their visions successes and day to day business the difference. it's. history you know everyone. seems to. be fishing for. digital africa starts december twelfth w. i rather wonder another exciting week of your max i'm your host meghan lee we're gearing up for the christmas season here's a look at what's coming up. cool and colorful ice sculptures and video installation

ton show in the film city of. old and new young musicians i mean you know auerbach rock the harpsichord. by sea and sweet a traditional christmas market and gingerbread street in the german city of. in the run up to christmas europe is full of winter time events celebrating the season well in the belgian city of brewers visitors can now admire dozens of ice sculptures in the shapes of dragons the lions and various fantasy figures while the creatures are also accompanied by light installations some forty artists from seven countries are taking part and we travel to bruges to get a closer look but anyone who visit should bundle up this festival takes place at a minus ten degrees celsius. fantastical creatures made of ice bronson life with video installations.

for the last four weeks forty artists hammered chiseled and filed the ice sculptures in bruges. make a a fatal tuff made a huge monster from this ice block and much faster than you may expect from a big big sculpture full of flowers for example fired for big. reason or folded to fix much more guard. the artists reworked a total of five hundred tons of ice which had been previously produced over a period of three months in a nearby factory i sculpting requires a high level of precision and care. is a very sharp or b. chainsaw is pretty dangerous as so many. really dangerous ideas are used so often i have given on many many things. the further challenge is the temperature

the artists have to work in the freezing home where air temperatures are well below zero most of them are from russia or ukraine where new york focus on the award you don't feel the cold because it's actually is not so bold the weather just minus there it's not a big book but still after two hours in the cold it's time to warm up my sculpting is something these artists mainly do in winter in summer they work with sand. this year a huge video installation has been added to the ice sculpture exhibit for the first time. to video artists created a light show using nine hundred fifty l.e.d.s. cranes. the artist eurisko talent is from belgium. normally he creates light shows for big d.j.'s at music festivals working with a half transparent backdrop like ice is new for him. the main challenge here is

that the screen is very wide of those around the hole so yeah it is a very high resolution it's something new and something i never did before visuals we had eyes at first i was thinking like a. bit weird because you really see the spirit of war but now it's really like a nice sort of a give a lot of good a visual. it's a new digital dimension for this festival which an expanded to man has been organizing for sixteen years. for us it's very exciting because as we use pulp fiction in the lights and now we have this intelligent system with the let streams that's how old you don't mention in the world of i was joking and it's the respect ocular. and it's this magical mixture that attracts the visitors those who are

willing to brave the cold. we are from a player pat mcgrath and we are here. we cannot say never hide our fire guys this is the first time that i can believe that six twenty eight. said they did experience ace every day it's ice we are ice cold. the ice sculpture making is feet are tough is happy with the results of his hard work our team is more of a mobile focused park because we really love what we do here is for everybody pretty. tough and the other artists cannot spend too much time on winding next week they already have to move on to the next ice sculpture festival in germany visitors can still see the show in bruges until the beginning of january. looks pretty amazing ok we turn our attention now to

a quick roundup of other culture news making headlines. on sunday composer ludovico i notice he was awarded the twenty eighteen truffle of the year at the eighty eight international white truffle fair in the italian city of. the prize is awarded annually for outstanding services to the region surrounding on about. i know already received the award for his soundtrack for the film nino's story. it's part of a contemporary art project by larry go back to. the music was recorded go to church in. your rock legend joe linton that has reopened the rock and whop museum in his hometown of cornell the museum in north rhine-westphalia has undergone a yearlong renovation with its new concept in museums hopes to attract more

visitors there's memorabilia from all areas of rock and pop music a multimedia show and new themed areas devoted to topics including touring live on stage and conquer and rebellion. jauntily promoters opera and r.t.c. was staged as part of the baroque days festival at berlin state opera house simon rattle conductor deliver a culture of duty which featured stage design lighting and costumes fire claimed icelandic danish artist for leo sun the production was directed and choreographed by a letter column. a tailor forbidden passions the opera from seventeen thirty three combines elements of greek mythology like jealousy and virtue and in the end love wins out. the woman in our next report is working to revive

a long forgotten instrument the harpsichord now it had its heyday during the broke era but that faded with the advent of the piano well now harpsichordist ameena alba combines music from the seventeenth and twenty first centuries her goal is to break old stereotypes regarding the harpsichord and help give it a new lease on life. does playing an instrument that's been obsolete for the last two hundred years automatically make you old fashioned you know all about dozen things out. she claims the harpsichord a strength keyboard instrument that was widely used in iraq music then in the late eighteenth century the piano took center stage on relegated to harpsichord to the history books today it's generally only used to play only music.

it's really ghana in twenty years i'd like to reach a point where people no longer say that's that's new music that's paul classical romantic but instead just say we make music i just happen to play the harpsichord but it could just as well be something else like leave music that exists that interests me is fun more than saying i play music written until seventeen fifty and that saying out. loud the miller club in munich the ensemble continuum is warming up early enough founded the group in twenty fifteen they perform an eclectic mix of the rock neo classical and hip hop all on historical instruments. family lives really far and now smart enough the world around him you. are not and have the. brain fade life is still something still change nice to

love it can become demands and we look for ten years that make the harpsichord sound different and present it in another way than thinness the one word which always sounds very similar maybe too similar for night after visits to inches but when you take a piece of paper and lay it across the harpsichord you can just. and that's very dry and muted because it's damp and. then it sounds like you make a tempest tempest like this. and in our back our fellow musicians are all virtue of sounds on their historical instruments but they want to break out of the small early music scene without betraying.

the daughter of a church music director alabang started playing the harpsichord when she was five when she began school she wanted to play the piano but that didn't last long she graduated in early music and was already teaching at a distance college of music by the time she was in her mid twenty's she's traveled the world with half the court. at the camp of continue on sambal experiments with spoken word sounds and music dating from the seventeenth century to the present. using a milk from her on a kid her own or children's toys as percussion instruments and a piece of paper to play a glissando on the harpsichord strings. but music must fulfill just one criterion it must move the listeners.

ideally when you're sitting on stage or alone at home and you start playing time ceases to exist in this period i'm on. tired what after that moment you have the feeling that you can take everything into your own hands alison who can stop time or speed it up again for the show. in spite of the wonderful sounds it makes then anyone composed his music prompts he called these times i mean i think that's a shame and she aims to change that she believes historical instruments deserve to have a future. time now to take a trip thanks to a request from formosa in argentina that is where our viewer on hello satara nino

gomez lives and he would like to know more about the spanish capital drib which has really taken off as a top tourist destination over the last couple of years and this is due in part to relatively low prices for food and accommodation and a large variety of things to do from culture to sightseeing plus an efficient of public transport system allows tourists to cover lots of ground now i recently traveled to meet up with a local resident and blogger my fellow did up pena who offered us some insider tips on how to best explore the city. muggeridge a sprawling metropolis with architecture representing several centuries a drive down the main brownfield boulevard gives visitors an impression of the energetic vibe of the spanish capital. located directly in the center of town the

possum mine yours madrid's main square it's a popular gathering place filled with cafes public relations manager of my fellow de la pena was born and raised here in her spare time she writes a blog giving tourists insider tips. on a good italian have a day i would definitely suggests a bit of a good turn one a visit to one of the three major newseum we have in my days like the brad though that i must be out with a decision a i would also suggest a shopping because operate from the big and the well known as spanish brands that everybody knows we also have in this district the really nice shops the spanish brands and the third thing i would suggest medical is i mean. the account of the time we get is located just a few meters away from the class of my yard the structure dates back to nineteen sixteen unlike other spanish markets this is not

a place to do ordinary grocery shopping but rather a venue to enjoy in a range of spanish delicacies. that doesn't mean it is very touristic and as you can see there are lot of people at every hour of the day it was a million like it that they have it and we know they did it and the good thing is that you have a like all the good choices of spanish guests readily especially the a baker house . following marcello's second tip we head to the shopping district of salamanca this is madrid's most exclusive sub. when small boutiques which offer unique items that are hard to find anywhere else. marcello's blog also outlines where tourists can go if they're in search of authentic spanish the sign. leslie is very good for shopping a mass. neighborhood for that and you would find that very expensive but takes like

this one where they said very fashion leather backs with spanish leather of course . for tourists interested in taking in some culture the prada museum or the gysin born in me says private collection or the renaissance fia must be put on the list of places to go. to render sophia museum opened in one thousand nine hundred ninety two and houses contemporary art including icon of the twentieth century. probably picasso's guernica depicting the nine hundred thirty seven bombing of the town in the basque country. we have five great products are said that is pretty sad a piece like that he'd like me to make fun goodies might he have allowed to. because i can assume that means we've got the sticky issues i thought so the in

suites only think of it we. know that the school started coming in so what do we get past but it has to do with the best. the best way to round off a day of sightseeing in madrid is by heading back to the city center to the well known street of kabul this is where numerous times as bars are located the spanish typically etoposide the snack between meals and they are always served with a drink. in the way that last night is very common and yet i know many people know that the original the word is. because when the only times when you i mean your sort of day they would serve it with a clover like this in which would be a big difference these are nowadays when you ask for a make and serve you something like this you know we have a little bit of cheese we have charities so and we have bread sticks. madrid might

have a big city feel to it but life here moves at the slow leisurely pace and that is also with sure and enjoy when visiting this city. most certainly everyone knows his or her zodiac sign but i don't find it at night is nearly impossible for the on train di so good thing the first harbor for hans engels offers us a bit of help with his images over the skies above southern germany. gemini the twins in the night sky above upper bavaria scorpio unix olympic park. normally he takes pictures of architecture or the munich trailer monic but stars have always been his passion. he was less interested in star signs until he became an expert in navigating the zodiac. this happens whose team this is to much of system it's like

a clock in the sky and one revolution equals one year if you learn to read it you can say exactly when each zodiac sign will be visible to see. but often the signs aren't easy to recognize. using digital editing and saying those enhanced them by connecting their stars. some signs really look like what they represent leo and gemini for instance you can really see the lion and the twins. other constellations are more abstract like aries it's just a bent line. of angles captured all twelve signs of the zodiac in the sky above of area he snapped capricorn standing atop olympia barragan munich's olympic park using the city below as a source of light. going with exposure time is just one of the tricks of the photographer's sleeve. if the move the moon helps the moon needs to be in the right

spot and have the right size off moon or full moon unsellable when you can see just enough light in your landscape while still leaving the sky dark enough so you can see the stars. we took on saying those three years to take good pictures of all twelve zodiac signs the resulting photos are now available for purchase and dangles already has ideas for where he'd next like to capture his stars. and finally the first christmas markets are starting to open to the public here in germany and one of the best ones is located in the western german city of often with the famous cathedral as its backdrop here you'll find a special kind of junior bread known as printing while the recipe dates back centuries and its tradition carries on to this day and that is why we have put it

first on our list of goodies for this week's series. arkan's christmas market lies in the heart of the historic old town around the city hall more than half the stalls sell christmas decorations and gifts but there are also plenty of cullen area tractions like hearty savory food and mulled wine and punch also sweet gingerbread pastry and often specialty no print on as they're called here as a giant gingerbread men are the star attraction the ritz didn't we have to try the spice flavored printer so i know the normal ones for a moment but the ones with spices are really something special sauce was a nice stone lights darkness i mulled wine and something tasty to eat a snickers for me the essence of a christmas market. this is what the market looks like during the day in the center

city hall built on the foundations of charlemagne's palace. the cut off square and often cathedral are situated south of city hall the unesco listed building is the city's most famous landmark. the noblest bakery operates one of the one hundred fifty stalls it has been producing gingerbread according to the original recipe since one thousand and fifty eight. nowadays they also come with nuts omens chocolate from domed icing or even in the shape of charlemagne. just bought it off a special thing about often a print form is that they have to be made with enough and city limits that has to do with rules which exist in germany linking the product to its geographical origin that means the designation of origin is or checked it. at the back of the stand your shorter is demonstrating how to make bits of their occupant one filled with

mars a pattern. the exact recipe is a carefully guarded secret but the brown dough includes flour and baking powder and three different kinds of sugar syrup icing sugar and rock sugar and spices of course and a seed cloves coriander cinnamon and all spice also known as a mento each baker has his or her own special mixture next the dough has to be rolled out. but it's not the sort of the traditional normal print to keep for a long time because they don't include any ingredients that can spoil my cakes cream milk or butter. when. after fourteen minutes in the oven the prints are ready and can be decorated with knots or covered with chocolate what is this called clinton. clinton ok it's nice i think it's got some knots in it i thought it's a chocolate but it's a mix of

a chocolate and something else it's nice we have the similar i'd ever need. like this one and so do i and the how the one in the cinema. so we like it. in like two christmas tastes. if the hustle and bustle of the christmas market is too much for you you can visit often cathedral. the feeling that they find it really quaint here this will cozy old town and they like the fact that there's no trashy stuff and none of the bustle of a christmas fair so. and that's what makes the trip to often during the advent season so popular with visitors they can experience a traditional christmas market and i'm historic city.

something for everyone there and before we go we want to let you in on this week's draw. now in light of the beginning christmas season we are highlighting traditions and one we'd like to honor is the song silent night now it's been translated into around three hundred languages and dialects and we would like to hear your version just go to our website to see how to take part and by doing so you can qualify to win a cd and a regional wooden christmas pyramid and with that we are out of time from me and the rest of the current euro max as always thanks for tuning in and we will see you again tomorrow. next time on your own max delicacies from the north sea island of the search for your husking and be on from there browner from the surgery hope for a strong have just been named germany's chefs of the year in the twenty nine team edition of the renowned restaurant garde comito the two chefs use local produce

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