(Xchange) www.bmbient.demon.co.uk newsletter oct 99
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(Xchange) www.bmbient.demon.co.uk newsletter oct 99 |
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Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:08:31 +0100 |
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Welcome to the boom booom net radio mailing list thinghy...
Contents:
1. <bold>Special Event</bold> - Tue 5th October
2. <bold>NewMailing List</bold> - now automation at your fingertips ;-)
3. <bold>Inter-Net Radio</bold> - a case study
4. Our Regular <bold>Broadcasts times</bold>
5. <bold>talk to us !!!</bold>
6. <bold>Musotle's</bold> latest news - for all your music technology nee=
ds...
7. MP3, Links, and shameless adverts
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Anyway, on with the show....
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<bold>1. SPECIAL EVENT:</bold>
STOP PRESS
Tuesday 5TH October 1999th
special extended broadcast from Band on the Wall ... from
manchester Uk
we will be broadcasting from 20.30 to approx 24.00 GMT
join us to sample a delicious concoction of toones from the Boom
Booom malarkey show
8:30 - DJ Sound with some funky experimental beats, from 9:00ish
adding live players until ...
9:15 - the Digital Sound Orchestra aka Paul, Craig, Ian D., Nela,
Ness, Karl and DJ 10-4, beginning to crank up the pace a bit until
by ten o'clock the place should be rocking.
10:30 - DJ 10-4 with a fast-changing set of party music - house,
breaks & Afrobeat; towards the end
percussionists etc. will begin to come back ...
11:15 - D.S.O. second set, even more pumping and psychedelic,
adding in sound sculptures and frenzy
to climax around midnight.
what is this Funkwerk? well - it's a completely integrated multi-
sensory club night where the DJs hand back and forth to the live
players, where the live-mix video is strobing in time to the beat and
referring across to the projections which are run in time to the
music by taking the same MIDI data the sequencers are. it's an
evening's performance considered as a whole piece of music, from
the spacy opening through the meaty midsection through uplifting
trance ending up with drum'n'bass mayhem.
is that crazed enuf?
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<bold>2 . NEW MAILING LIST</bold>
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>While this mailing list will be used f=
or boom booom net radio news
( we are likely to grace your mailbox at most once a month...) we
have started a new automated mailing list which you can can
subscribe to.
here's a few words from the list:
To subscribe to the list, send a message to:
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-subscribe@h=
exie.smmp.salford.ac.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>>
To remove your address from the list, send a message to:
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-unsubscribe=
@hexie.smmp.salford.ac.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>>=
Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list:
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-info@hexie.=
smmp.salford.ac.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>>
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-faq@xxxxxxx=
mmp.salford.ac.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>>
Similar addresses exist for the digest list:
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-digest-subs=
cribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</pa=
ram>>
<<<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-digest-unsu=
bscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</=
param>>
If despite following these instructions, you do not get the
desired results, please contact my owner at
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>rico-booom-owner@xxxxxxxxxx=
.salford.ac.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>. Please be =
patient,
my owner is a
lot slower than I am ;-)
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Note you can subscribe to either the main or the digest list (or
indeed either if your mailbox is pretty empty !!!)
On the main mailing list you will automatically receive every single
posting other subscribers send, with the digest you will receive a
collation of all the postings every so often. You will still be receiving
all the posting but they will come to you as a neat package... ;-)
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All subscribed users will have the chance to post messages to the
list and these messages will be echoed to all other subscribed
users. We are just testing this new mailing list out so we hope it
will work well but ... hey as with all technology... please bear with
us. The mailing list will be an open forum for all things booombient
but will also be open as a noticeboard for anybody doing any web-
broadcasts and/or music, art, etc on the web. Club promoters are
also welcome to contribute (ok lets say it advertise their event) on
this list but all we ask is for you to limit this to a short monthly e-
mail. Anybody flooding the list with too many advertising e-mails
will be banned from the list. There is no limit to the amount of
entries if your e-mail is of a discussion, reply, etc nature... hey just
use your net etiquette...
Please e-mail me personally for any more information about the
mailing list and/or to report problems, do not send these to the list
as a whole... [not everybody in the list will want to know that when
you receive messages via eudora your computer plays a little
tooone and a thick white smoke comes out of your floppy disk, and
maybe you think it's because you spilled some cofffe on it last
week.. etc etc you get the idea...]
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<bold>3. NET RADIO - a case study.
</bold>below you can find some extracts from an net-article case
studying our ventures into realaudio butcasting.
The full article can be found at:
http://www.jull.clara.net/vol1/1/00002.htm
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We would like to thank the authors for the permission to quote from
their article:
mark grimshaw m.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
louisa yong c.yong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ian dobie i.m.dobie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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<flushboth><bold><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Ti=
mes New Roman</param>I<smaller>nternet radio is one of the growth areas of=
the Internet but, [it] is fraught
with difficulties and frustration for both the modestly-funded broadcaster=
(bitcaster) and the listener. The article will illustrate some of these
problems by means of a short case study of an existing Internet radio
station; Boom Booom Net Radio [...]
[...]Boom Booom has been on the Internet for some time, maintaining its
own web-site in a modest fashion for several years, providing information =
on bands and DJ's, forthcoming events and a large section which provides
links to other members of the Netted Musical Underground. Since then,
however, Boom Booom's Internet presence has grown with regular forays
into bitcasting. This happened at a time when Salford University's Music
Department had access to its own web server, as well as purchasing a Real =
Audio server. Some members of the Boom Booom team worked at Salford
University and were instrumental in setting up the Real Audio server
software on their web server.</flushboth>
<flushboth>This process allowed Boom Booom to extend their scope from mont=
hly
nights into twice weekly Internet broadcasts. With a laptop Wintel PC and
a 56Kbps modem, the people involved would meet at each other's houses
on Sunday evenings and the DJ's would practise their art whilst the world =
listened - we hoped.</flushboth>
<flushboth>[...]We slowly watched an audience build up over time, via a Ja=
va applet (a
web browser application), that allows the Real Audio server administrators=
to monitor the number of current listeners</flushboth>
<flushboth>[...]IRC allows participants to chat in real-time within a text=
-based
interface on a particular chat channel. In this way, listeners [have] the =
opportunity to give feedback to the DJ's and chat with other listeners or =
members of the Boom Booom team. This interaction between the music
producers and the consumers [means] that it [is] possible for the producer=
s
to establish a rapport with an 'audience', and for the audience to feel
more involved in the whole musical experience. It [is], in short, a way o=
f
creating more of a community atmosphere than is often possible with
conventional media </flushboth>
<flushboth>[...]A further step was taken when Boom Booom started bitcastin=
g the live
events. The emphasis here was slightly different as they were 8-hour
broadcasts, and we wanted to try and capture some of the atmosphere of
the club. We had two rooms, each with different music, and took an audio
feed from each room into a mixer and then into the PC. This allowed us to =
choose which room's music to broadcast at any particular moment.
Additionally, we took a feed from the video mixer into a video capture car=
d
in the PC. Both the audio and video inputs were encoded as a live file,
sent down the telephone line to the server at the university, and from
there it was available to the rest of the world. This enabled people to
watch the video projections that were being used on-site, whilst they
listened to the live music.</flushboth>
<flushboth>[...]Despite frustrations caused by network congestion, drop-ou=
t, computer
crashes and so on, audiences are</flushboth>
<flushboth>remarkably patient. They perhaps understand that bitcasting tec=
hnology
is still in its infancy, and it may be that there is a novelty value attac=
hed to
such bitcasts. Likewise, bitcasting - as in Boom Booom=92s case - seems t=
o
have found or created an audience for events that would not normally be
broadcast on other forms of media.</flushboth>
<flushboth>Additionally, providing chat pages, as a form of interaction be=
tween
consumers and producers, helps create a loyal audience who feel a part of =
the events.
</flushboth>
<flushboth>[...]It may seem that the problems enumerated here far outweigh=
the
advantages. Whilst it is true that modestly-funded groups such as Boom
Booom will encounter most if not all of these problems, larger</flushboth>
<flushboth>organisations, like major Radio and TV networks, are able to ov=
ercome
them with more sophisticated and</flushboth>
<flushboth>expensive technology. For the smaller organisations though, bit=
casting
can provide valuable access to a global audience, for a relatively low cos=
t,
in what is, still, a largely unregulated arena.</flushboth>
<flushboth><bigger>[...]Consider this, in order to bitcast compact disc qu=
ality stereo music,
the network (including receiving devices such as modems) through
which it is sent must have a bandwidth that is never less than
approximately 1.4Mbps (Megabits/second). The fastest publicly available
modems have speeds of 56Kbps and many modem users will be using
modems that are of lower speeds than this (such as 28.8Kbps). </flushboth>
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<bold>4. REGULAR BROADCAST TIMES</bold>
Come join us for our regular net radio shows on:
Wednesday 10 - 12 BST
Sunday 19 - 21 BST
NOTE BST =3D GMT + 1 hr... so set your clock right.
- boom booom net radio :
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.bmbient.demon.co=
.uk/music/bbradio.htm</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
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<bold>5. Talk to us !!!!</bold>
CHAT PAGE: we have a chat page open for our regular sunday
evening broadcasts.. come and join us. If you have a JAVA enabled
browser you can click on the 'JAVA CHAT...' link on the web page
or if you have an IRC program you can join us at
hexie.memtech.salford.ac.uk
(146.87.216.80 is the IP number if you need that...) the port is 7001
and the channel is #booombient. If you are having difficulty with any
of this, or if it doesn't make any sense... please send us an e-mail
and we will send you some more detailed information
[more information is also available on the site...]
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<bold>5. MUSOTLE</bold>
the page formerly known as BOB has moved to :
http://www.bmbient.demon.co.uk/musotle
visit us if you need any reference learning material on Music, sound
and technology. We are constantly updating our site and adding
new material. We are currently working on a guided pathway in IT
skills and Music Theory.
Do check our ever growing glossary.
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<bold>6. BOOM BOOOM BANDS AND FRIENDS HOMEPAGES:</bold><bigger> <smaller>
(buy all those CDs on-line)
- RIPWRAP - <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.m=
p3.com/ripwrap</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
- QUERCUS CIRCUS - <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://w=
ww.mp3.com/quercus</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
- THE CUBAN SIX
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.mp3.com/artists/=
25/the_cuban_six.html</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
- FELEMA - <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.mp=
3.com/felema</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
- BIG BLOCK 454 -
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.mp3.com/artists/=
17/big_block_454.html</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
- STRANGE ANGEL -
<underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>http://www.mp3.com/artists/=
15/strange_angel.html</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
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Boom Booom Net Radio would like to extend a biiiig booombient
thank to the University of Salford's School of Media Music and
Performance for their support with our net broadcasts
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.uk</underline><color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>
THE END ... FOR NOW.....<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>
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