Re: [microsound] project invite: 'City of the Future'

[spw <stevepwats@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 4/4/03 9:11 AM, Ian Gallimore at mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> spw <stevepwats@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I have to admit my opinion may be a little bias because I'm not a huge fan
>> of IDM music.
>> But I would say a practical purpose for this list would be to create
>> projects where people demonstrate
>> techniques in DSP and they describe what software they use.
> 
> Firstly, if you'd read the microsound site properly when you signed up to
> this list, you would have realised that demonstrating DSP techniques is not
> within the remit.

I guess vague is supposed to clever and "cool" like IDM music.

> Secondly, who's interesting in listening to demonstrations
> anyway?

I was just giving an example of a more practical purpose to a mailing list
that specializes in the
topic of DSP music.
I don't become motivated by picking random topics out of the air to start
projects, if I create art
it has to serve a purpose.

>> How many people actually spend all day downloading MP3 quality music?
> 
> Have you read any newspapers in the past 3 years? Plenty, especially if they
> are interested in music not put out by corporate scumbags.

The music being free and accessible and the high prices of CD's has a lot to
do with the 
popularity of MP3.

>> MP3 labels are lame especially when it's doodle ambient sound manipulation
>> type shit.
> 
> For collector geeks who like to say "I've got the original, with the limited
> edition insert, and "exclusive" bonus tracks" mp3 labels are indeed lame.
> 
>> MP3 is great for previewing tracks to get a general idea of what a song
>> sounds like.
> 
> Indeed. It's also great for distributing music for free. Of course, if
> you're hung up on having something physical to gaze at, you could always
> burn them to CDR.

The problem is MP3 quality doesn't sound good even on CD, I have a lot of
MP3's on CD and I 
never listen to them.

>> Projects that I would actually bother to participate in:
>> 
>> - create tracks to put on my own album or a demo.
> 
> Why don't you do that then? Nobody's stopping you. Perhaps you could use the
> projects as an impetus. You don't have to upload them to the hotline server
> if you don't want to.
> 
>> - music for my own records label if I had the finances to start my own
>> label.
> 
> Why not start an mp3 label? Oh, I forgot - they're lame.

A better idea would be to start a label web site and use MP3's to preview
tracks.

>> - if I was getting paid to create my style of music for a client like a
>> commercial, movie, ect...
> 
> So you eant to create music for commercial? Now I see where you're coming
> from.

It's too bad there isn't a system where you can purchase and download high
quality audio 
tracks directly from an artist or label since high speed connections are
becoming more 
popular.

> 
>> - a remix contest if it had the potential of being released on a legit
>> label.
> 
> What's a "legit" label? Does it have to be part of the Bertelsmann empire to
> qualify?

an established label that is carried by a distributor and sold in stores.

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