From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #37 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 Thursday, February 17 2000 Volume 05 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Question on my guestbook... ["Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Question on my guestbook... Lazlo whips it out!: > It's not TMDR, it's Alvin Lucier. He did a very cool > installation at Winrock Shipping Center in Albuquerque many years > ago called "Music On A Long Thin Wire". It was basically just a > long wire stretched taut across a stage with the vibrations > amplfied and (in this case) played live over the local college > station for several days running. > > "I Am Sitting In A Room" is out on CD courtesy of Lovely Music: > http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1013.html. Lazlo, you are a one-man reference library and a truly invaluable resource to us here at Alloy. Thank you so very much! I recently visited your website and am very impressed with your dedication to learning *and* sharing! Congratulations on your new-found inspiration, and huge guffaws regarding your 32Kbps streaming MP3 comment. ;-) /\/\iles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:34:13 +0100 From: lulfstedt@amadeus.net Subject: Re: Alloy: Looking for work again. Oh Dennis, So sorry to hear this. Why not check out jobs here on the Riviera? They are crying out for people to work in the IT industry out here, and you don't need to speak French. If you need any info, just let me know,.... Lissu :-) From: Dennis S Alexander on 05/02/2000 02:55 GMT Please respond to alloy@smoe.org |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |To: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |alloy@smoe.org | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |cc: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | (bcc: Louise Ulfstedt/NCE/AMADEUS) | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |Subject: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |Alloy: Looking for work again. | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| Well, bad news. I was laid off Wednesday morning. They let 20% of the company go, with the exception of their countless programmers and VPs. I'd never seen a company with so many VPs before! So I'm back looking for work, again! I'm getting tired of this! I just want one job, a secure source of income. Even when I get permanent jobs, they only last a few months! Oh well. ___________ JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 05:18:29 -0500 (EST) From: andyjmail@cheerful.com Subject: Alloy: Thanks! Cheers Alloy! Thanks for the answer about that recording, it's nice to have been able to help someone. Ta, +AndyJ+ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:43:31 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Alloy: Out of the Storm and Into the Calm Hiya gang.. just back from an extended offline hiatus... sometimes life's work can dominate and have us lose track of time. It took me awhile to go through the Alloy e-mail, but finally did. Let's see... a few condenced responses from previous comments. 1. Belated Birthday wishes to Lissu and congratulation on placing an artistic mark on the music global community. 2. Lem --- you have my sympathy. There is nothing more depressing than to have someone take what is yours. But the tunnel often gets brighter at the end. Keep the faith. 3. Dennis --- everytime I have moved from one job to the other, I have expanded in more than one way. The last time I moved on from two consecutive jobs in a short period, and was lost in limbo unemployed, someone told me that the third one will be IT. Prophecies sometimes DO take place. 4. Jon --- Congratulations! When I became a father I experienced that exact feeling you mentioned. I saw the the people in a different frame. We all come into this world in the same way. The bonding into humanity is a special ocassion that gets lost in the myriad of daily illusions. When it comes down to it... we are ALL wired to each other. 5. Welcome to all new Alloy members... may your online experience with us never be the same. electrix --- catching-up. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:20:00 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Alloy (OT!) anyone fluent @ Latin translation? Someone on one of my other lists needs Latin translated into English for a magazine they publish. Anyone interested?? you could get a free t-shirt out of it!!! :) Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:46:45 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Re: Alloy: MP3 via the internet Thus Spoke an MP3 fiend: >Do any of my fellow Alloyites have two-cents to put toward a discussion on it? > >Wondering, always ... > I don't know for others... but I have this obsessed libido relationship with media (CD, LP, DVD)format that is like ... very Olivia Newton-John ---- Physical. I am sure it is total subliminal influence of Record Company marketing. I remember the late Frank Zappa once mentioning that without the "sexy" cover and the bell and whistles put on the LP covers, the music within wouldn't carry as much impact. Simply said --- marketing is everything! I have my share of MP3s. I never get to listen to it outside of the PC. Although, I have entertained the thought of buying an MP3 Player like Rio solely because I like to hear my music without skips while walking, jogging or what-have-you. But like cassettes, I don't perceive the raw MP3s as a "sexy" commodity. I must agree with our friend Miles that it can only serve for promotional value... not unless someones become very creative with its packaging and the quality increases beyond the sampling rate (although my software player professes to sample my CD at the 44.1Hz sampling rate to make it into an MP3). But can I fall in love with just the sound without its glitzy cover, inFormation and, soon to be if not already, visual image? Perhaps, but not until I can wear the touted future technology of mobile personal CPUs as those design by MIT engineer students -- who walk around in a similar manner as the Star Trek Borgs. The technology is still too heavy, but we are getting down to miniaturization at a quick rate. When I can --- with one eye --- glimpse at the miniature screen, voice-command, hear the musical software in full glory of 3D sound, and have it subtly vibrate parts of my body while I wear it would I say we have arrived at the blissful "sexy" state of music SOFTWARE i.e. MP3. No sooner does CD becomes easy to produce that we be enter into the sorround sound of DVD. At the NAMM show this year, I witness the "affordable" technology of DTS and Dolby Sorround encoder/decoder software to apply to the home pressed CD. So the future is thus... 5 to 6 mini stereo speaker in every Entertainment Home Center. A 3D simulated Borg-like PC-Walkman to travel with. MP3 is still in its infancy with lots of great potential... but watch the greedy cigar record execs probably botch that up to!. Christ... there is enough music for all, no need for them to sell the media at the outrageous price and hog the music industry like Oil Cartels. Where there is a will there is a way... the musicians will find it; the public will consume it. electrix -- electrocuting the possible future of MP3. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #37 **************************