[mstation_newsletter] May News
- From: John Littler <jlittler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mstation_newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:24:46 +0200
Hello!
If you've wondered at the gap in these announcements, it's been
because the details of this list were on what might be called the
"wrong" computer. Anyway, hope you weren't inconvenienced.
This month we have ...
the May 0 7 issue
Hardware/Travel - We go to Potsdam in Germany to check out a
supercomputer which makes calculations to do with climate change and
societal impact. Also on the campus is an architecurally famous
astrophysical observation tower built in the time of Albert Einstein
and named after him. Report
Music - This month we start a series on small record labels. In a day
when the economics of gigantism sees only a few massive, and
massively clueless labels with incestuous media relationships, the
small label is our hope for the future - they even listen to the
music! They even like it. With so much music on the internet, we
could actually find all we wanted by just looking but not many people
have time for that - that's what labels are for - to act as filters.
This month we start out with Great Hare Records from the UK, and
Hypnote from New York State. The first is, so far, a one artist
concern, and Hypnote is for fun, dancy stuff. Great Hare Records,
Hypnote Records
Podcast - Getting recordings of Bleepfests has always, for one reason
or another, been quite difficult. The last event in Berlin was no
exception but we have managed to tie together some tracks to give you
something of the flavour and variety of these events. Podcast:
Bleepfest Berlin
Games - Announcing the death of DRM in music might be a little
premature but the basic fact is that music needs to go into the
analogue domain to be played and so is always defeatable. The same is
not true of games. Commentary
Music - Pop/dance Artists congregating in the heart of the dark
empire: Thunderfinger has a glance at Myspace and some of the people
who hang out there. Commentary
Music - Classical A recent book claims the classical music labels are
doomed. We suspect that some of the present ones certainly are but
there are far too many people who passionately love this music to let
the music itself die. Here, we spit the dummy as far as labels are
concerned, and get onto a new tack. Commentary
Books - Bollywood, Textmate: Mac Editor Reviews
Cheers
John
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