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MUSIC for NEW MEDIA
Newsletter April 1998, Issue 12
A free monthly editorial service. 
More than 37,000 readers.

Published by Felix Bopp
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

< Music lovers can currently buy music from approximately 70,000 web
pages world-wide. > If you want to be in touch with this
extra-audionary new world - stay tuned, listen to this free monthly
Newsletter. Feedback, recommendations, suggestions etc. are very
welcome! And - thanks for promoting < MUSIC for NEW MEDIA >!

< MUSIC for NEW MEDIA > is also available on Jim Cara's < Prodigy
Digital Music >!

This edition includes:

- Sounds from South Africa: Qradio, ClubNet, Gallo Music
International, The South African Bandstand, zaZINE

- Extra-Audionary Soft- & Hardware: Koan, CDQPRIMA 2MUX-M

- BroadcastAsia98

- `Voice Morpher'

- BRAIN OPERA

- Historic Flash: < Modularity >, by Joel Chadabe

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Sounds from South Africa:

Qradio 
< Quincy Jones brings his favorite World Music to the Internet,
focusing first on South Africa. Qradio offers tastings -- and
explanations -- of the music of South Africa, from jazz and hip-hop,
African choral music and more. Qradio also broadcasts live radio to
the Net from the studios of the South African Broadcasting
Corporation. > Plug-in: RealAudio http://www.qradio.net/ The South
African Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.sabc.co.za/

ClubNet
< South Africa's first official Music and Dance Culture resource site.
Using some of the latest technologies for the Internet, we have
created a site that not only works well but is informative and useful.
This is not an on-line magazine, but rather a guide of sorts. >

www.clubnet.co.za/home.asp

Gallo Music International
< Featuring leading artists and recordings from the Gallo (Africa)
Limited group of record companies, the catalogue represents an
important cross section of musical styles. From Marabi to Mbaqanga,
Traditional Vocal and Instrumentals, Township Dance and Contemporary
Pop, the catalogue includes recordings spanning 68 years of our South
African musical heritage. > www.gallo.co.za/gmi/index.html

The South African Bandstand
< Here you'll find the largest list of South African bands and links
to music-related sites. This is the most current list in South Africa,
as stolen by all the best sites. > http://mod.co.za/pz/pzbs.shtml

zaZINE - An Online Guide to South African Underground Music
< The purpose of the page is pretty obvious from the title and I hope
it will serve as a means for underground and unsigned bands in South
Africa to be heard. Anyone in bands of this nature will know what a
difficult task this is, as without independent radio their chance for
being play-listed is practically zero. Until the IBC eventually free
up community radio in South Africa this is unlikely to change - and
even then the cost of broadcasting will be out of reach to most small
bands. The Internet is the only affordable alternative, with enormous
potential - as demonstrated by pages like IUMA and Earache. If anyone
out there is in a band and wants to be heard, let me know. This is a
perfect opportunity for bands to side-step the self imposed censorship

of commercial broadcasters (in order to please their advertisers), and
get out there, be heard and gain new listeners among the ever
increasing number of Internet users. > www.thrasher.co.za/sama

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Extra-Audionary Soft- & Hardware:

Koan
< SSEYO Ltd., creator of Koan software for generative music and sound
environments, upgrades its range of Koan authoring tools and Koan
players with a new Koan Music Engine that, in 32 bit form, has
integral DirectX 5 support.  The SSEYO "WAV Map" technology allows
multiple advanced WAV-file based instruments to be used as the basis
of Koan sound environments.  This important development for the
fast-growing international Koan community means that Koan piece
authors can now use their own WAV samples to deliver, on any Windows
95 PC with DirectX 5 installed, Koan music with consistent playback
quality irrespective of the Soundcard on the target machine. >

http://www.sseyo.com/

CDQPRIMA 2MUX-M
CCS (Corporate Computer Systems Europe GmbH, Germany) introduces a new
audio codec product CDQPRIMA 2MUX-M, supporting MPEG 1 and 2 Layer II
and III, G.722, J.41 and J.57. Details soon available on their
website. http://www.ccs-europe.com/

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BroadcastAsia98

< Asia's largest exhibition of sound, multimedia, and video equipment
and peripherals will be held from 2-5 June 98 at the World Trade
Centre in Singapore. BroadcastAsia98 along with Professional Audio
Technology98 and CableSatAsia98 is expected to attract more than 600
exhibitors. Showcasing the latest in audio technology and music tracks
are Sennheiser, Studer, Georg Neumann, Shure, BMG Music Publishing,
Kin Tin Studio, MusicCamUSA, Akai Electric Co. and Yamaha amongst
others. Expect to see country pavilions from Germany, China, Spain, UK
and USA. The conference focuses on digitalization - the theme:
"Welcome to the Digital World - Opportunities and Challenges".
Conference topics will cover interactive services, multimedia
delivery, digital audio broadcasting and the convergence of
technologies, to name a few. > http://www.sesmontnet.com/bca98.htm

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`Voice Morpher'

Ken Lomax heads an ambitious research project at the University of


Oxford in England. His goal is synthesize the voice of great singers
from the past singing new songs and to transform the voice of a user
into that of a famous singer in real time. His `Voice Morpher' creates
templates using recordings of singers and generates a catalogue of how
word are pronounced, typical behavior related to the style of music,
timing etc.. Lomax `synthesized' Maria Callas, Elvis and Kiri Te
Kanawa so far. Examples can be heard on his web site. A commercial
solution like the integration into synthesizers seems possible in the
near future. http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/~lomax/DPhil.html reference:

http://www.newscientist.com/keysites/networld/digidiva.html

http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980321/nelvis.html


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BRAIN OPERA

< The BRAIN OPERA is an interactive, musical journey into your mind,
to be presented simultaneously in physical and cyber space! Created by
acclaimed composer Tod Machover and his team at the M.I.T. Media
Laboratory, the BRAIN OPERA is a first-of-its-kind musical experience
that will include contributions from both on-line participants and
live audiences. If you want to express your ideas, experiences, and
feelings in music and sounds, you can help create the Brain Opera. You
can actually participate in the live performances. We want musical
inspiration and input from Mozart buffs, grunge rock fans, John Cage
devotees, rappers, Verdi lovers, Deadheads...anyone who enjoys music.
> Awarded with the `DigiGlobe 1998' in the category `culture and
entertainment' by the Deutsche Telekom and the German magazine Focus.

http://brainop.media.mit.edu/

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Historic Flash: < Modularity >, by Joel Chadabe (jchadabe@xxxxxxxxxxx,
Electronic Music Foundation: http://www.emf.org)

The modular analog synthesizers of the 1960s, developed first by
Robert Moog and Donald Buchla, were the first modular instruments.
Because they were modular, and because their component modules could
be connected in different ways, they were configurable into different
types of systems. The analog synthesizers of the 1960s were, in short,
multi-algorithm instruments. You could use frequency modulation,
amplitude modulation, subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and a
wide variety of other techniques to make sound. And the flexibility in
sound design that this gave to the composer extended also to the
flexibility in the way that a particular sound could be performed.
Different composers, with different artistic goals, worked out
different approaches to performance. Wendy Carlos, on one end of the
spectrum, played a Moog modular system as a Baroque instrument for her
1969 hit 'Switched On Bach'. In fact, performing with a keyboard, she
used it to emulate several different Baroque instruments and used
multitrack techniques to create a Baroque orchestra. Morton Subotnick,
on the other end of the spectrum, used a Buchla synthesizer as a
semi-automated (with sequencers) interactive system to create 'Silver
Apples of the Moon' in 1966. He interacted with the system by turning
knobs, pulling patchcords, and pushing buttons to cause the
sequencer-based control system to generate the sounds (which were not,
incidentally, remisicient of Baroque or any other acoustic
instruments). Modularity and its resultant configurability in the
modular analog synthesizers of the 1960s (and in the Music-N software
programs also developed during the 1960s) was a major innovation in
musical instrument design because it made it possible for a composer
to design as instrument as well as the music it played.

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BroadcastAsia98, The 5th Asia Pacific Sound, Film & Video Exhibition
and Conference, 2 - 5th June 1998, World Trade Centre, Singapore. Held

in conjunction with Professional Audio Technology98 and CableSat98.
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Felix Bopp is a Composer, Publisher and Consultant specialized in New
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Copyright c 1998 Felix Bopp. All rights reserved. Reproduction in
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