From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #30 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, February 9 2000 Volume 05 : Number 030 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Beatnik @ Angrycoffee.com [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: Thomas moderating @ Gavin Seminar [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:18:08 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Beatnik @ Angrycoffee.com Join the Audio Revolution on Angrycoffee.com Create Your Own Digital Audio Experience With MP3, Beatnik and More SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A Digital Audio Revolution is brewing - -- will it pass you by? The arrival of MP3 and the new fluidity of online audio will forever change the way we listen to music. Angry Coffee ( http://www.angrycoffee.com ) is a new online resource center for novices and experts alike who want to experience and develop audio on the Internet. "We started Angry Coffee because we were impatient with the difficulties in figuring out how to play and listen to online music," said co-founder and musician Adam Powell. "Angry Coffee was founded as the only central index of software with tutorials on how to use that software all in one place." Angry Coffee features a tutorial suite that provides clear and concise information on how to work with the latest online audio applications: -- Learn to play and encode music files with MP3, the digital audio compression technology that exploded onto the Internet last year. -- Experience interactive music with Beatnik, a technology that brings high sound quality, tiny file sizes and true interactivity to Web audio. -- Work with Macromedia's Flash to add event-triggered sounds and animation to your Web site. -- Add audio and video with Quicktime 4, the most popular online format for MIDI and video-oriented multimedia compositions. Angry Coffee also includes a software index to helpful applications and plug-ins at the bottom of each page and links to additional Internet audio resources for the latest news, music downloads and streaming net radio stations. With the help of partners like Wired (www.wired.com), and affiliations with Beatnik (www.beatnik.com) and Tucows (www.tucows.com), Angry Coffee receives as many as 10,000 page views per day. "Angry Coffee is a key, cutting-edge Beatnik leader," said Thomas Dolby Robertson, founder of Beatnik. "The site is a valuable resource." In the upcoming weeks, visitors to angrycoffee.com can expect to see an expansion of tutorial content as well as bulletin boards, inline chat, areas to post their digital audio files and other community offerings for new users and digital audio masters. "Don't let the online audio revolution pass you by," said Todd A. Tate, an expert audio engineer and co-founder of Angry Coffee. "Whether you're a musician, a web developer, or just someone who wants to learn about all the fantastic possibilities of audio on the Internet, Angry Coffee has the information you need to become your own online audio engineer." Angry Coffee http://www.angrycoffee.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:22:13 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Thomas moderating @ Gavin Seminar Gavin Presents Music Programming on the Net Gavin Seminar's Annual Gathering of Radio and Music Industry Executives Will Include Digital Age Innovators From Such Companies as Launch.com, Microsoft, SonicNet, RealNetworks, Nickelodeon Online, GetMedia, garageband.com's Jerry Harrison, tonos.com's Carole Bayer Sager, PatroNet's Todd Rundgren, and Beatnik.com's Thomas Dolby Robertson SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the growing impact that the hottest new dot-com companies are bringing to music and radio, Gavin, a San Francisco-based trade publication for the music and radio industries, will play host to recognized industry leaders and some exciting newcomers at this year's Gavin Seminar in San Francisco. A day of "music dot-com," Gavin's all-day Music Programming on the Net Day will take place February 16 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero from 11:30 to 6 p.m. As dot-com distribution technologies and new market penetration mechanisms revolutionize the lines between consumers, programmers, labels and artists, Gavin will dedicate an entire day to music programming on the Web. Sessions include: * 11:30 a.m. -- "Making Music Compelling on the Net: What Does the Consumer Really Want?" Moderated by: Afterplay Entertainment's Les Garland, with Nickelodeon Online's Fred Seibert, ArtistDirect's Steve Rennie, Josh Felser of Spinner.com and KIISfmi's Michael Steele * 1:00 p.m. -- "What Does All This Mean to the Artist?" Moderated by: garageband.com's Tom Zito with tonos.com's Carole Bayer Sager, garageband.com's Jerry Harrison, beatnik.com's Thomas Dolby Robertson, and PatroNet's Todd Rundgren * 2:30 p.m. -- "Music on the Net: Which Business Models Will Win?" Moderated by: Microsoft's Brad Brunell, with Get Media's Robert Goldman, Launch Media's Ted Mico, Liquid Audio's Stephen Page, SonicNet.com's Brad Porteus, Live 365.com's Peter Rothman, Choice Radio's Val Starr, and myplay.com's Paul Batson. * 4:00 p.m. -- "So You've Got as Website ... Now What?" Moderated by: All Access's Joel Denver with WTMX-Chicago's Barry James, WJLB-Detroit's Michael Saunders, KLLC-San Francisco's Louis Kaplan, and Sean Demery. * 6:00 p.m. -- Cocktail Party sponsored by RealNetworks This opening day will set a digital stage for the rest of the convention weekend (Feb. 17-20), which will feature a full slate of general sessions on radio and music industry trends, format panels, one-on-one discussions, jukebox juries, parties, artist showcases, "A View from the Top" session with leading record label presidents and Gavin's popular group programmers' forum "The Big Picture". For more information on Gavin Seminar 2000, log on to www.gavin.com. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #30 **************************