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alloy-digest          Thursday, May 18 2000          Volume 05 : Number 122



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Alloy: Thomas in the news (short news piece)               [RThurF@aol.com]
  Alloy: Greetings, and a question     ["Colin Viebrock" <colin@easyDNS.com>]
  Alloy: Colorado Contingent Hosts Alloy Auslander  ["Stephen M. Tilson" <St]
  Alloy: About Mike Kapitan             [Russell Milliner <milliner@iag.net>]
  Alloy: Beatnik freaknik               [Chris Cracknell <crackers@hwcn.org>]
  Re: Alloy: Colorado Contingent Hosts Alloy Auslander  ["Erik Habbinga" <ha]

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:47:46 EDT
From: RThurF@aol.com
Subject: Alloy: Thomas in the news (short news piece)

For more information about Oracle's conference series, visit the link at the 
beginning of this short announcement.

Robin T


Dolby Blinds Oracle With Science at iDevelop2000 Kickoff
 
 REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/

 (http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?204680) As part of Oracle's iDevelop2000 
conference, the largest conference devoted to Internet developers in the 
world, Thomas "Dolby" Robertson, Chief Beatnik and Founder of Beatnik the 
leader in interactive audio technologies and content for the Web and the 
digital world, gave a special demonstration of  Beatnik's "sonification" of 
the Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) website as part of his onstage presentation with 
Mark Jarvis, Oracle Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing. The 
conference, held at Oracle's headquarters in Redwood Shores, CA, kicks off a 
global series of 29 iDevelop2000 conference events, which will allow 
thousands of developers around the world to get a "sneak peek" at hot new 
technologies.

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 15:41:13 -0400
From: "Colin Viebrock" <colin@easyDNS.com>
Subject: Alloy: Greetings, and a question

This is my first post, so greetings are in order, I suppose.

Hi.

Okay, now that that is out of the way ... a question.

I came across a short snippet of a song that is "supposedly" called "Solo",
by Thomas Dolby and Nina Hagen.

I say "supposedly" because I've checked every online resource I can think of
and can't find any reference to a collaboration between Mr. Dolby and Ms.
Hagen.  Not in any of the discographies, not on the FES website, and not on
any CD stores site.

Can someone confirm or deny this information.  I know Mr. Dolby reads this
list occasionally, so I'm sure he has the answer!  If the rumours are true,
can anyone provide the relevant details (what album is it on, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.  Oh, and "hello" again.

- - Colin

P.S. the small portion of the song I heard sounds cool!

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 16:38:10 -0400
From: "Stephen M. Tilson" <Stephen_Tilson@compuserve.com>
Subject: Alloy: Colorado Contingent Hosts Alloy Auslander

Tim the_Dunn writes:

 > Stephen - that is all so cool - I think we should all move to 
 > Colorado and set up our own commune or something. One day the 
 > London contingent will have to join you...
 
Ah, imagine the jam sessions we could have... <smile>

As far as Colorado is concerned Boulder is the place to be, from what 
I saw of it.  It recently made a top-ten list of American cities to 
live, work, and play in, and I can see why.  The only thing missing, 
for me, is the ocean.  (Gotta have the ocean!)  But it is a very 
beautiful and interesting community, and it probably has a history of 
communes - much like the area that I currently live in, Santa Rosa.

 > Also, how did you get that job???? That sounds totally cool - can 
 > you get me some bass tips off Tony L??

I applied.  Fortunately there weren't many applicants!

It was great fun and deeply illuminating.  The tour gave me a solid 
understanding of, and satisfaction in, my decision to avoid being a 
professional musician.  It is a *very* hard way to make a living - 
even if you're Tony Levin.

Short of hanging out with Tony, my best advice is to read his book, 
"Beyond the Bass Clef", a collection of personal anecdotes about his 
life-as-musician interspersed with tips for bass players - available 
from his website (and maybe elsewhere), www.papabear.com.  Tony is an 
entertaining writer - hilarious even.  He is also an accomplished 
photographer, Macintosh user, and loving father and husband - in 
addition to being God's-own-bass-player! <g>  Some guys have all the 
fun, eh?

Thanks for asking,
/\/\iles

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:53:23 -0400
From: Russell Milliner <milliner@iag.net>
Subject: Alloy: About Mike Kapitan

If anyone is interested, I just found Mike Kapitan's website, and it 
appears he has a solo project being released.

Check it out at
http://kapnet.org/500mf/

Note: if you didn't know that Mike was the guy who played synth on 
Aliens Ate My Buick, then you know now.

- -Russell Milliner
http://www.iag.net/~milliner/

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 22:07:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Cracknell <crackers@hwcn.org>
Subject: Alloy: Beatnik freaknik

Well gang, I recently got graphical internet access (still use the Lynx
account for E-mail and newsgroups) so I finally got to experience the glory
of Beatnik.

Well.. sort of.

I've noticed some midi oddities with Beatnik. On some pages when I click
on a midi file Beatnik automatically plays it on some pages the microsoft
media player plays the midi file and on some pages Beatnik goes through
the motion of playing the midi file but then just sits there doing nothing.

If a midi file is embedded in a webpage then Beatnik plays it. If its
set as the bgsound then the microsoft media player plays it.

There's a webpage that's a huge midi file archive and Beatnik just goes
through the motions of playing them which is pretty frustrating.
( http://www.prs.net/midi.html ).

Is there anything special I have to configure? The diagnostic on the Beatnik
website tells me everything is set up properly but it still goes wonky,

Also is it possible to configure Beatnik to play midi files offline?
It sounds much better playing them than the typical FM synth midi player.

Also, where the heckety heck is the Beatnik program? The only program that
shows up in it's folder is the install program.

                                 CRACKERS
                         (screwy from hell!!!!!!!)

- -- 
Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan
*       http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html         | Crackers' Arts Base *
*  http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html      | Hozer Video Games   *
Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:34:27 -0600
From: "Erik Habbinga" <habbinga@verinet.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Colorado Contingent Hosts Alloy Auslander

Hey Stephen (and all),

   Thanks for the great trip report.  I can't think of anything
you left out.  It sure was fun getting to meet you and spend
more time w/ the other Colorado Contingenteers.  As you said,
I would have gone to the California Guitar Trio show anyway,
but it was a great bonus to meet the infamous /\/\iles!

Sorry I had to leave right after the show.  The next day was
Easter, and I played in two Easter services.  Had to be at the
church at 7:30am.  Didn't get home until 1:30 or so...

One correction for Stephen (and all the single Alloy ladies, whoever
they are :)).  It's Erik w/ a K!

Back to the depths,
Erik
 

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