beepSNORTA New Music Blog Covering the Online Independent Contemporary Music NetworkNew Music is Too Cacophonous.org- December 24, 2005 Cacophonous.org is really getting into shape now. There's a Cacophonous.org Podcast RSS Feed and when you add notes to your del.icio.us entry it now turns links into valid HTML. This will let composers add program style notes to their announcements with links to scores and parts and commentary. The coolest thing about setting up something like this is watching how usage generates new ideas about how the service should be run. Please visit, listen and add your comments. Unfortunately for the few.http://beepsnort.org/archives/000410.html Cacophonous.org is Ready for Business- December 22, 2005 Got the parsing and generation of blog entries working this afternoon. Cacophonous.org now periodically grabs and parses the mp3_classical_contemporary tag RSS feed from del.iciou.us and, using the Movable Type reBlog plugin generates blog entries for every new MP3 that is announced over the service. I'll be adding playlist creation and a player shortly. Comments are open, but moderated, so feel free to praise or diss any of the first few announced works. My provider, doesn't give subdomains...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000408.html Full of Color and Utterly Boring- December 18, 2005 Full of color and utterly boring... haha your comment, Ian Moss (in a comment at S21), reminded me of the NY Times article this morning about movie flops:Where Have all the Howlers GoneBut the very worst films achieve a special distinction, soliciting membership in a kind of negative canon, an empyrean of anti-masterpieces. It is this kind of bad movie - the train wreck, the catastrophe, the utter and absolute artistic disaster - that seems to be in short supply.And this is very bad news....http://beepsnort.org/archives/000406.html Generalizing the Announcement Service- December 15, 2005 So, I'm starting to see how there's a real need for all types of musicians to have this service. I'm not sure if I want to create a community for commenting on all types of new music, but I think it would be interesting to have hundreds of genre-specific RSS feeds representing announcements of new MP3's as they come online. I've got a XML-RPC server up and running and am getting to the API. It'll be like a blog ping server where an artist or an OMD or a rep can do a XML submit of the info I...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000405.html Cac.ophono.us - Building A New Music Announcement Aggregator- December 11, 2005 OK, the Cac.ophono.us site is up and I've wired up the del.icio.us feed to one of the columns. This is not even a pre-alpha site yet. Initial ideas are in the previous article, A Proposal for Announcing New Music Recordings on the Net. At the moment, I'm still experimenting with how to auto-generate blog entries from the del.icio.us mp3_classical_contemporary RSS feed. Once that's done and I settle on a look, this should get rolling. Current plans are: 1. Auto-generate blog entries from new...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000403.html A Proposal for Announcing New Music Recordings on the Net- December 10, 2005 I've got an idea, and I'm working on an implementation, of a generalized way to announce new MP3's on the net. Been thinking for a while, about what a loss of community, the demise of MP3.com was. We've experienced a diaspora of sorts, spread out all over from Ampcast to Download.com. We no longer have any site that welcomes comments or even just pointers to new recordings. And it's not just the community that's been lost, its the mechanism for attracting the release of new net-distributed...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000402.html At a Loss for Compositional Ideas- December 10, 2005 Nick Didkovsky on the JMSL list reminds us all of Webhamster Henry's Top 10 Imaginary Recordings of 2005. a brilliant spoofsendupideafarm of conceptual possibilities in sonic design. My favorite... Return To Sender (Mail Ops, 2005) Experimental sound artist Holga Becker modded up her Mp3 recorder to run extra slowly, stuck it in a package and mailed it to her self. Hear the sounds of travel, other packages (what's that ticking noise), sorting machines, mutterings of the postal employees and...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000401.html Exposing MySpace Artist Exposure- December 8, 2005 I've recently joined MySpace after a year or two (how long has it been around) of avoiding it cuz it looked so HotOrNotty. My page has BlueStrider and a few other 'hits' of mine and I've been wondering where the music promotion scene was going from there. I've actually met quite a few interesting composers there, FWIW, and even have the Kronos Quartet as a friend. Woo hoo! Hint to Kronos, my string quartet Anamorphosis would be a compelling addition to any of your concerts! I found an article...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000400.html DMCA Penalizes Classical Net Radio- December 7, 2005 Because classical net radio must play many works from the same CD (usually in a row, snicker) many classical net radio stations, including Kyle Gann's Postclassic Radio are having their service disrupted or delisted. Kyle's Blog Entry It's difficult to imagine a copyright policy that would be so clueless about music and music history. It indicates to me, a mindset where the arts serve only to promote business interests, not the interests of the listener or the work (yes a work of art can have...http://beepsnort.org/archives/000398.html |