and speaking of walls the berlin based artist collective inner fields use them as their canvas for some of the most sought after street art around. well anyone who's a fan of the sound of music will remember julie andrews yodeling her heart out in the song the lonely goatherd and indeed long before the advent of smartphones cow and go herds used yodeling in the alps as a way to call from one mountain to another but what began as a melodic language in switzerland and austria has evolved into a sophisticated musical form in itself and it's one that has remarkable staying power. but be totally meaningless and loudly. we don't know when the 1st alpine dairy farmer let rip with the 1st yodel.

perhaps the most plausible explanation courting the scattered herd of cows in for milking but with so much artistic creativity be invested into such a monday. oh are you there are you know. my thesis is that this is a is much more penetrating that's the reason the german police or the fire department have this. are that goes just like that. goes up and down and that's basically a yodel. the order was originally a distress call the invention of someone high in the mountains feeling threatened by the uncanny silence someone who felt they must release this feeling of loss innocent a primal yes. and this became an entertaining form of music. it's

rather hard to imagine now but there was a time when yodeling was considered revolutionary. you could even say there was a kind of republican the yodel for example in switzerland one of the 1st democratic countries or to roll off the wars to free it from the podium at the beginning of the 19th century. these countries were associated with freedom in the armies of the rest of europe. so the euro songs that came down from the out to europe were transformed into songs of freedom. an interesting theory where the battles are just great p.r. measures for alpine folk music well christoph barker's research does suggest that there was a yodel at that time one which gripped the whole of europe and soon produced its

1st superstar growing a family from silla tal. her daughter and got rich and that energized the scene and made this point song into a kind of 1st pop music so instead we see. in addition to the rhinos hundreds of alpine singers and even opera divas took yodeling to the living and to overseas pastures near 0 balance yards at the new york metropolitan opera their views were not great but that didn't stop yodel mania gripping the us. the whole world met in the usa in the 19th century and a mix of languages were spoken my idea is that yodelling was the lowest common denominator. to get by in some in in the. music market was saturated with the new sound and some began to find it just play. mark twain generously rewarded the

1st yodeling shepherd he encountered as sending a space mountain but after encountering every moment at 10 minute intervals he soon resorted to bribing them just shot. trying did not live to experience the blue yodel jimmy rogers went from graduate brakeman to directing which. was allegedly inspired by howling and steam locomotives. in the usa yodel mania lost its luster in the 1950 s. . but 2 decades ago yodeling was liberated from being solely the preserve of german folk music t.v. shows indie folk music bands and everyone's gone vocalists have breathed new life into. and why not what could be more beautiful than transforming those cries of

distress into a positive heartfelt yeah that echoes around the world. well august 13th marks the 58th anniversary of the day the berlin wall went up practically overnight here in the city itself it preceded to divide berlin into communist east and capitalist west and for 28 years it was the most tangible symbol of the cold war and during that time author and journalist. was one of the 1st west germans to write a novel about it 30 years ago i could have been shot to death just for standing here for space on the east side of the berlin wall was called the street. people risk their lives trying to escape from the communist east to the west but who would have been crazy enough to try to jump over the wall from the west to the east. hit us not i was broke. the wall jumper is about germans from both sides

trying to overcome the border. mr who was in his mid forty's and on welfare 1st came to the attention of the police when with a running start from the west he jumped the wall heading east the guards of the other german states arrested as a border violator he wore out his interrogators who wanted to know why he hadn't used a border crossing by pointing out time and again that he lived right across the way and had taken the only direct path over the wall when the book came out in 1902 the wall was already part of people's d.n.a. hardly anyone here believed that east and west germany would we unified and most people didn't even want them to be in the wall. weaves together political analysis and report ties with his own youthful adventures and his complicated friendships with germans from both sides the book proved to be prophetic it will take us longer to tear down the wall in our heads than any record company will need for the wall

we can see. the wall jumper is still one of the most important works written about german division and it's probably the coolest history lesson you'll ever read that . nice little slim addition to your summer reading list while wolves play a central role in our next report because we're going to meet the guys from inner fields who specialize in massive street art murals now fred decades there are has reflected how ai and technology are taking over our lives and the more surface they manage to cover the more they hope that they can change the world. do and hold. in a field. for 10 years now they've been painting giant sized colorful and very precise works using building says they campuses and giant sized tools. it's all. these are our surprise brushes our favorites if you were to do the same thing on

canvas this would have to be a mini brush. many many and. their theme is the effects of the digital revolution on people's lives. transforming huge facades into murals like this one in fribourg as both a challenge and a responsibility that it does with the movie was never an opportunity to paint something like this also imposes a great responsibility on us to express something to the community. when you're located something on a public space where lots of people see it you have a responsibility to produce something lasting that advances society otherwise in the end it's irrelevant a few weeks early on but it's live and work in berlin i 1st met in the mid ninety's when that worker ficci sprite is not everything they created was entirely legal. i believe that. in the light actually not all that much has changed about our

passion from the 1990 s. i think the one small transformation that's happened is that while there was a hobby and a parish and background today it's serious and a passion and now we're allowed to do it we don't get left out anymore. over the years that stayed true to the things the only present smartphones are one of their favorite subjects the critical view of the breakneck pace of technological progress often finds expression in a mural in berlin. hamburg and abroad. such as georgia. israel. norway or ukraine. for us it's fantastic that we're getting so many requests from all over the world to come and paint these works.

no we have to think about how we're going to coordinate the year and choose what we're able to take on it realize and finish. that. in addition to the meals they paint to get the 2 artistic projects on their own as well here it's all about the relationship between humans and technology the finished canvases look a bit like miniature versions of the murals but you do want to accept any artistic limitations. these works could indeed become a mural. of their canvases we've created individually to deal with the subjects of social media and technology and. i think it's great because in a way we're putting together a cache of ideas. their latest mural is an initiative at the university of fribourg with philip kelley maya is conducting research on official intelligence he supplied the basic idea for the work. it's

been our experience in the projects we've done so far that our tears are virtually ideal means or public forum for or approach to instigating dialogues on such complex topics as artificial intelligence technology things like that. i agree just superimposed on the study helps to transpose the proportions to the wall 4 days of work 6 liters of paint and 10 cans of spray paint went into the freiburg mural it purposely lays much room for interpretation. there was no mention of it. we hope to reach people but we don't want to play the part of the educator here we just want to put down a few stumbling blocks in a trip people up we want to trip up people's minds and. this is what in a field hope to achieve with them you know on artificial intelligence. it's science alone makes it almost impossible to avoid engaging with much of the books that

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