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We live in very uncertain times. Humanity and all living things are constantly under threat and there is an urgent need to create the causes for harmony throughout the world. All of the world's major religions and humanitarian traditions teach the ethical values of tolerance, patience, loving-kindness and compassion. 

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Disabled people are just like everyone. They just want to live life to the full and do normal, everyday things like go to work, catch buses, buy clothes, play sport, go to the pub, travel abroad, watch telly and moan about the weather. Creaturdiscomforts is putting a spot on the negative circumstances, disabled people find themselves in daily life.

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Peter Scherer is a New York based composer and producer with a multifaceted career encompassing music for film and dance, producing, arranging and playing with other artists from across the spectrum of contemporary music. He is a master of perfection. slight changes over time, going the very hard way.

 

Listen to "Evil" from the first Solo Album " CRONOLOGIA" 


 

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, he studied piano, composition, theory and orchestration, among others with György Ligeti and Terry Riley. shortly after arriving in New York in the early 80's he connected with key figures of the downtown scene such as Kip Hanrahan, Arto Lindsay, Bill Frisell, Nana Vasconcelos and John Zorn, collaborating on numerous recording projects and performances, while also working with r&b artists like Nile Rodgers, Cameo and many others. with Arto Lindsay he founded the Ambitious Lovers, mixing elements of brazilian, experimental, funk, r&b,

 

Listen to "Gian und Maria" from the Album " MARMORERA" 

Commissions for Film music followed soon, resulting in refined Soundtracks such as 'never again forever' and 'another road home' or `Marmorera.


Watch Peter Scherer working with Don Li on "That Land"

The project “That Land” was initiated in 2005, when composer/clarinetist Don Li was invited by the Swiss modular furniture company USM to perform a musical event at their showroom in downtown Manhattan.

Visit Peter Scherer on the original site here... See Live Performance "Ambitious Lovers" here. Visit "That Land" here!
 

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Toke Constantin Hebbeln's film "NimmerMeer" has won a student academy award in the category "Best Foreign Film". The film uses lyrical images to recount a fantastic parable about the coming of age and the power of dreams and was made in collaboration with Frisbeefilms. 

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The toil of the workingman is the fascinating subject for this documentary from Austrian director Michael Glawogger. A film of few words but plenty of indelible images of people (mostly men) risking their lives with hardly a second thought, "Workingman's Death" hopscotches to various work sites around the world.

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