Journal
Notes on art, music, and publishing from Hanse Media.
Aksonance Releases “Island / Otok,” a Summer Ballad Born on a Croatian Island
A pop-soul summer ballad written after a stay on the island of Ugljan. Two versions: Island in English, Otok in…
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Aksonance Named Official Finalist at the InterContinental Music Awards 2026
Aksonance named Official Finalist at the 2026 InterContinental Music Awards. The Breath of Silence selected in the Artist Directed AI…
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Volevo essere Odifreddi: The Name That Became a Prophecy
A television repairman from Borgo San Dalmazzo tells forty years of life running parallel to Cuneo's most famous mathematician. Piedmontese…
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MARILYN100 ICONS: The Centenary Becomes a Global Contest
MARILYN100 ICONS is a free international contest inviting Marilyn Monroe lookalikes worldwide to interpret one hundred Cyberpaintings. AI-powered rankings, original…
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MARILYN100: One Hundred Cyberpaintings for the Centenary of Marilyn Monroe
On June 1, 2026, Marilyn Monroe would have turned one hundred. To mark the centenary, Micheline Grisolame unveils one hundred…
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The Society of Agents: From the Sociological Imagination to Human-AI Coevolution
What happens when the agents we design begin to form a society of their own? Riccardo Crosa traces the arc…
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The Breath of Silence
The musical companion to MARILYN100. Ten tracks tracing five centuries of feminine portraiture, from Ouverture to the ambient coda that…
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HERE
Eight tracks about presence, choice, and the courage to remain. In a world that urges movement elsewhere, HERE invites the…
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Sherlock Holmes and the Scandal of the Portuguese Bank
A forgotten fraud. A legendary detective. A final enigma. Sherlock Holmes enters 1925 Lisbon in the opening of The Congregation…
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A Perfect Day
Eight tracks of emotional cartography. A Perfect Day is a love song that never utters the word love, a diary…
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Winter in Paris
A musical journey through the magic of the city of lights. Ten tracks intertwining music, art, history, and emotion in…
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Dragon of Jade
An epic concept album inspired by the legend of the Jade Dragon. Ten orchestrated tracks exploring strength, sacrifice, and the…
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DORIAN
A reimagining of Oscar Wilde's meditation on beauty, time, and the price of living without consequence. The portrait in the…
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Electric Wonderland
Neon-lit rock at the intersection of technology and imagination. Electric Wonderland maps a world pulsing between the mechanical and the…
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The Black Tulip ft. MCDJ Amsterdam
A collaborative concept album with MCDJ Amsterdam, drawing on the mythology of the rarest flower in the Dutch Golden Age.…
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Form of Life
Is AI an advanced technology or an emerging life form? William Mills challenges conventional boundaries in a book about co-evolution,…
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AI
What happens when the tools we build begin to resemble us? AI maps the emotional landscape of a species learning…
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The Creator’s Mind: A Semitic Odyssey through Genesis
A translation of Genesis into Sêmit, a language invented from Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic. First published in 1999, now reprinted…
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LOVE
The most universal subject, stripped to its essentials and rebuilt without clichés. LOVE treats its subject as a verb, not…
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HOPE
The act of hoping as a form of resistance. HOPE earns its title not by declaring but by demonstrating, track…
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