> was that it might be more interesting to find a way to -use- the
structure
> of the internet in a more appropriate way, making use of the
> "whatever-on-demand" possibilties.
s carrier medium which comes after the record industry. the dj was
already
something, the sampler, cubase-midi, modules on amiga. it is not that
"jimi hendrix is a effect of his electric guitar". but it is clear that
the rock'n'roll-song has something to do with 45-singles and radio show
formats, while the electronic music of the 90ies has something to
do with the net. to take a famous old example, hendrix feedback
technique
-misused-  technology and -revolutionized- (at least) the sound of it.
but maybe the gesture of revolution is not appropriate, maybe
it is more about growing and shrinking. the mushroom model.

> to my fuzzy mind, such a system would be more like machines
distributing
> and recieving content autonomously aswell as on request.
replicating data-banks, with ftp-mirrors this is already quite standard.

> that concept would allow for rather adventureous experiments in the
realm of remixing
> and programming....the various nodes in this kind of network would
> permanently be mirroring and distributing content and possibly
rearranging
> or revamping their respective materials - and the "audience" could
tune in
> and at any given time  find something new and different...
yes, there's a kick in it. the idea of affirmating the ambient mode
of radio formats, is a feature, automatic and algoritmic "radio", and
what
does radio mean here, i think something intimate, private, an aural
space, a generator of an acoustic atmosphere. and besides the channel
format, there are many other ways, while in the end also radio on demand
is more like having all your audio-cd's plus a lot more on your
hard-disk.
but mostly radio is public, it may be bad music but it's free. to have
it
'on-demand' while integrating the 'knowledge
of DJs' like finding the best routes through a given set of songs,
taking play lists as material, goes away from what we know as radio
but may be still some kind of ambient media.

> so what im trying to say is that in the world of permanent connections
it
> is not necessary to think in time slots.
if you are lucky to have a leased line at home, sure before discussing
net.radio
one should maybe make sure that everone has one;)

> also it is not necessary to
> "sync" activity - you can have your server do that for yu;-)
right. if you have such a home server. which works like a music.box
which picks up
it's stuff over night or so. but how to avoid the usual top 20 charts.
you even
have that with mp3. i think that the variety is the potential here.

> machines are alot better at that than humans are, and especially the
dont
> care what timezone they are in, another argument against the live
stuff
> from my side.
truly an argument. at the moment, with deutsche telekom still controling
the price structure over here,  i would prefer to get my little cdrom
every
week. it's cheaper then paying the telephone costs to hear
livestreams...
while the live thing has it's important sides, for performances,
telepresence, backchannel and interactivity things. also just a
nostalgic thing of broadcasting. sure, many tv and radio programs
just look like 'live'...


> needed to make all of our collective materials available - even after
they
> have been broad or narrowcast. maybe step one would be a coordination
of
> RealAudio mirror sites...
that's something!



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