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Discography of Brazilian music on 78s - John Cowley
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Thanks, I noted this bogus member's activity yesterday and banned her immediately. We're getting around one of these a month so I'm always grateful for any assistance with identifying them early on, Chris
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Just stumbled across this rare lecture from the 1970s given at John Hopkins by Marshall McLuhan, picked up David Weinberger's Joho from Star Larvae where it was blogged over a year ago.
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Bloggers rescuing rare audio

Just stumbled across this rare lecture from the 1970s given at John Hopkins by Marshall McLuhan, picked up by David Weinberger's Joho from Star Larvae where it was blogged over a year ago.

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 9:00pm —

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RSSR's first year

I set up this network on Ning just over a year ago with a view to promoting the topics that were to be discussed at the Unlocking Audio 2 conference in London last March. The network grew quite swiftly ahead of the conference and has continued to flourish. As 'manager' of the site I have access to some basic facts and figures about RSSR so you may be surprised to learn that around 27 people join every month, or just under one every day, which has brought the membership total to 334. 4 specialist… Continue

Posted on November 18, 2009 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

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MP3 RIP?

Following the fate of records and tapes, could MP3 also be on the way out? This is the first of five predictions by Carl Franzen writing in the AtlanticWire based on the latest views of different commentators about new directions underway for listening to recordings of music:

* Eliot van Buskirk (Wired) on Lala
* Ian Paul (PC World) and John Healey (LA Times) on Goo… Continue

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 11:30am —

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The resistance industry

Nate Anderson (Ars Technica) surveys the objections to innovative technologies across a century or more.

Reference is made to William Patry's new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, in which he wrote, "I cannot think of a single significant inno… Continue

Posted on October 15, 2009 at 10:47am —

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Different metadata

Professional archivists and librarians are accustomed to talking about three kinds of metadata: descriptive, administrative (including technical) and structural. The compilation of these different sets of data into a container file such as METS is becoming routine but it's evidently a time-consuming business as its success continues to rely on manual creation and editing by trained staff. This is not an efficient way to manage abundance.

Fortunately the Web environment provides other sources of… Continue

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:32pm —

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At 5:06pm on November 24, 2009, Enric Gine said…
Thank you Chris! I'm slowly moving in all this audio preservation world... my summer days at the Sound Archive meant quite a lot - more to come!
At 12:30pm on November 13, 2009, Michael Eldridge said…
Thanks for the welcome, Chris. Yes, I certainly know John's excellent work (and met him once at a conference some years ago). I recognized a few other names here, too, like Dick Spottswood and Richard Noblett. Looks like a great group and a wonderful resource. (I also used to visit the British Sound Archives back in the day when it was out in West Kensington. Ah, time flies...) Best, Michael
At 6:57pm on November 8, 2009, Olivier Nijs said…
Hi Christopher,

Thanks. I certainly will. Getting tired of Facebook these days.
At 3:55pm on November 3, 2009, Gordon Urquhart said…
Thanks for your welcome, Christopher, I hope to be an active participant here.
At 11:00am on October 28, 2009, Jøran Rudi said…
Hi Christopher, and thank you for the welcome. I just happened upon this page yesterday through a normal Google-search, and recognized a name.

We here at NOTAM have ongoing activity in this field, and I am in the process of putting together a soundscape symposium in Oslo for spring 2010. The site is in two languages, Norwegian and English.
http://www.notam02.no/soundscape

I'll be back when I have something a bit more substantial to contribute than an announcement, and in the meantime I have a text in Norwegian written for the younger public:
http://www.notam02.no/~joranru/soundscape

Best,

- jøran
At 9:29pm on October 4, 2009, enerjii said…
many thank yu's 'CLC', for your kind welcome ~ i have already found and experienced a number of vibrating strands, that have aided my energy evolution, synchroniously flowing here. I look forward to exploring more RSSR. enerjii
At 8:02pm on September 17, 2009, Christian Gosvig Olesen said…
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for welcoming me, I think this is a great site!
Acousmatic music is (very roughly) just another expression for concrete music. The expression "Acousmatic" derives from the greek word "Akusmatikoi". It has different significations based on different interpretations, and musically composers work with the term in very individual ways. It refers to the way in which Pythagoras taught his students supposedly hidden behind a curtain in order to make himself and thereby the source of his voice invisible. It can be translated into both listener or the curtain separating Pythagoras from his students.
The composer Pierre Schaeffer picked up the term and elaborated on this notion of a hidden sound source to explain the capturing of sounds on recording media and the possibility of manipulating sounds into musical abstractions that it provided. It is in many ways similar to tape music, but in the live situation emphasis is very much on sound projection/diffusion via multi speaker systems (socalled "acousmoniums") in order to spatialize the music.

The term can be of very different meaning according to who you ask, but that is one of the things I find intriguing about it. There are a few festivals dedicated to this kind of music in France, England and Italy, and if you want a more thourough introduction to it I recommend this short text by composer Denis Dufour who is one of the founders of the Futura Festival in Crest:

http://www.myspace.com/acousmaticart

all the best, and thanks for the welcoming once again!

Christian
At 9:51am on September 11, 2009, Luigi Agostini said…
Thanks Cristopher,

I am sure I will find a lot of interesting comments here and I will do my best to contribute as well, ciao

Luigi
At 2:56pm on July 27, 2009, Will Montgomery said…
Hello Christopher. Thanks for your welcome note. Just finding my way round but I'm sure I'll find RSSR useful in all sorts of ways. Will
At 3:30pm on June 26, 2009, Richie Warburton said…
Hi Christopher, and thank you for the warm welcome. I found the network through Richard Ranft's Last FM Profile (I was listening to his Rainforest Requiem CD for the millionth time). I will certainly get in touch with Cheryl Tipp - thanks again. Apart from recording for my own musical creations (myspace.com/bagawire) I am a complete sound recording ignoramus. But I love to listen. I have a question: Why are recorded everyday sounds so compelling to listen to? Not just for nuts like me, either - everybody downs tools for a while to listen to a field recording if it is put on.
 
 

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