Friday, July 12, 2002

"Lisa Rein has written a song about James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and Marybeth Peters, the Register of Copyright, about the CARP proceedings, the First Amendment and the future of webcasting. Download the MP3 and put it on your favorite file-sharing network tonight! [The Shifted Librarian]

Remote Control Reggae. "we believe that it is high time that musicians had robots to play their instruments for them...So to ignite this revolution in music making, we decided to build a lego robot that could play reggae music on a ukulele"

Starting today it's the annual North Sea Jazz festival here in the Netherlands. Most of it is broadcast on tv here and certainly on the radio, where it's carried live. You should be able to listen to the NSJF live http://www.omroep.nl/radio2/live20.asxhere [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Live music radio from ... anywhere ... isn't that what its ultimately all about?

Thirteen/WNET New York Relaunches Digital Signal. Exactly ten months to the day after its transmitters atop the World Trade Center were destroyed, Thirteen/WNET New York has reestablished its digital signal via a low-power transmitter located on the roof of its broadcast center in midtown Manhattan. [DTV Professional]

MusicXML is a universal translator for common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It is designed as an interchange format for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performance applications. Recordare has developed MusicXML technology to create an Internet-friendly method of publishing musical scores, enabling musicians and music fans to get more out of their online music.

I was reading Curtis' blurb on missing great recordings and this NPR program on Indian Saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath came to mind. I heard it on WGBH in Boston while driving. "Gopalnath heard a British marching band when he was an teenager, growing up in India. He loved the sound of the saxophone so much that he began to play it. Although the sax was not part of the South Indian classical music tradition, he tried to make the instrument fit in. Now, with a few minor changes in the set up of the sax he plays, he has been able to gain wide acceptance in the tradition for his innovation."     Google It!

BBC plans full digital radio and TV interactivity for 1xtra. New Media Age Jul 12 2002 2:47AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]

Video Scratching on M-M-Macs. Just as scratching and sampling has forever changed music, video scratching is starting to revolutionize club visuals. A New York trio, Squaresquare, are leading the pack. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]