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Tapes and Tapes

Friday, December 14th, 2007

The image above depicts the "A List": tapes that are clearly labelled and known to have original music on them. There are 100 more on the "B List", which are mislabelled but suspected to contain original works (e.g., they were recorded atop prior recordings on the blank tapes, but never ...

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Mobile Media Use & Disuse – Research findings, plus musical odds and sods

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Hey. I'm digging my head out from under a tense, transitional semester of research, teaching and baby-raising. I'm working directly in mobile media now, in a new job at Mobile Muse 3 (so expect more posts in this sorter space as we go). On that note, you can see a ...

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AOIR Music and Sound Panel – Oct 18, 2007

Friday, October 26th, 2007

This update is running quite late, but is still valuable, I think, in attempting to sustain the dialogue which was unfortunately given too short an interval at our panel on Music and Sound at the AOIR conference last week. As well, I particularly need to move among the "diaspora" of ...

Posted in AOIR 8, blogs, conferences, critical constructivism, ethnography, fandom, indie, internet, music, podcast, political economy, social networks, technology, theory | 2 Comments »

FMC, A2IM force Clear Channel to pay royalties to independent musicians

Friday, July 20th, 2007

There's some great news in Future of Music Coalition's latest newsletter about Clear Channel's treatment of independent musicians. In just ten short days of campaigning (including blogging, negotiating with the radio giant directly, and filing a Request for a Declaratory Ruling at the FCC) the organization (with help from A2IM) ...

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Cory Doctorow Leonardo Lecture at SFU

Friday, March 9th, 2007

The Faculty of Applied Sciences at SFU warmly welcomed Cory Doctorow to deliver our Leonardo Lecture for 2007 (entitled "The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards"). It was a packed event, and a great speech (the same one he's been delivering elsewhere of late). Ivaniv at Blogaholics ...

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Give Me Last.fm And I Will Raise The World

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

I'm slogging through a deferred paper for a seminar last semester - ungh. But here's a post to kill two birds with one stone - (1a) force my ideas into something concrete via publishing (and all its accompanying dangers) while (1b) breaking my 2007 blogging procrastination cherry. No way I ...

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In-between Days

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Well, in-between-projects, anyway. I’ve just finished a couple of projects off (grading, my contribs to a research report, a philosophy term paper) and I have a few more (another term paper, two journal articles) due between now and January 15, but today I can breathe long enough to cast a ...

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Podsense Speculation

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Google appears to be gearing up for the release of a new podcasting product, uncoincidentally right on the heels of the Nov. 1 discontinuation of Audioblogger. This would be insignificant, and barely worth me diverting my attention from reading Marcuse and trying to get articles done by their deadlines, except ...

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Podcasts, Mashups, and their Antecedents

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

...as curious tourists should we not be able to take our own snapshots through the crowd ("tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal") rather than be restricted to the official souvenir postcards and programmes? - John Oswald, 1985 [1] I recently discovered the brilliant Whoboys, via a recommendation on the always engaging ...

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