webmixing...great fun

[BJM <bent@xxxxxxxxx>]

I want to thank Tu Mp3 and ubu.com for posting those links just when 
they did. I went to the Tu-m site and started listening to one of the 
"soundtracks." (It showed up as a quicktime audio bar... not sure if 
it's supposed to do that or if the quicktime I recently installed has 
hijacked my mime settings.) I switched back to the menu and clicked on a 
different piece, but forgot to stop the first one (they were in 
different windows). My browser dutifully played the second piece right 
over the first one. Well, that pricked up my ears. I started adding more 
and more files to the "mix", revelling in the noisy glory. I use Mozilla 
and the tabbed browsing really came in handy: I didn't have to open as 
many windows.

Well, I soon decided I was wasting my time and really should get back to 
reading my emails. Lo and behold, my next email had the link to ubu.com, 
where I quickly found the "sound" page (sorry, I guess you'd posted that 
link to steer us to the Aspen page). I quickly picked a name at random 
from the pop-up list and then clicked on a sound file. The overlapping 
mess of Tu-m files that I had started was still going, so my microsound 
collage was suddenly blessed with some strange Italian mouth noises (I 
think it was Giacomo Balla). Somehow I'd managed to pick stuff that all 
worked relatively well together and the results were sublime...if only 
for a few magical moments.

It's too bad I don't have a laptop; I'd love to do a show where I just 
mix sound streaming soundfiles from the web. I guess the venue would 
have to have a good internet connection though...

b

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