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Betreff: MUSIC for NEW MEDIA, Newsletter August 1998, Issue 16

MUSIC for NEW MEDIA
Newsletter August 1998, Issue 16
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Published by Felix Bopp
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I?m giving a short lecture At the Popkomm. congress with the title
?Musik im Entertainmentspace des naechsten Jahrzehnts.? on Friday,
August 14th , 14:00 in Koeln, Germany (see below). If you are
interested to meet during the conference, please send a message
mailto:felixbopp@xxxxxxx

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This edition includes:

- Extra-Audionary Awareness: Noise pollution

- Music Notation tools for the Web: MusicML, JComposer

- Extra-Audionary Software: Beatnik Converter for Windows released 

- Extra-Audionary News: RealNetworks versus Microsoft

- < CyberCafe with an Attitude?and a Musical Mission >, by Joie
Kelly

- < Digital signal processing (II) >, by Joel Chadabe

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Extra-Audionary Awareness:

Noise pollution
The impact of sounds surrounding us on a day by day base might be
of considerable importance for our well-being. We are able to select
what we want to hear or prefer to over-hear, but the sounds or noises
still reach our ears. Public awareness is mainly focused on major
noises like you find near airports or an open-air disco, usually above
the 100 db level. But ?Sound Design?  or ?Noise Design? should play
an integral part when designing the living and workspace, public
areas indoors as well as outdoors and when dealing with
environmental issues.
?Design? basically deals with two opposite methods: to reduce and
eliminate or to add ?Sound? or ?Noise?.
Some interesting resources and good starting points are:
- The Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
http://www.nonoise.org/
- World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE)
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/WFAEHomePage
- Wild Sanctuary
http://www.wildsanctuary.com

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Music Notation tools for the Web:

MusicML
is a document type definition (DTD) for sheet music. MusicML was
created to explore the capabilities and limits of XML. The MusicML
browser, written in Java 1.1.2, allows you to view your sheet music
online.
Development in process.
http://www.tcf.nl/trends/trends6-en.html

JComposer (Alu o'Neal Java laboratories)
JComposer, written in Java, is a tool that helps you to write and edit
notated musical scores and then publish them on the Web.
http://www.alulabs.com/projects/JComposer

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Extra-Audionary Software:

Beatnik Converter for Windows released 
< Headspace, Inc. is pleased to announce the release today of
Beatnik Converter 1.0, a Windows 95/NT application that converts
MIDI and digital audio files to RMF (Rich Music Format) for use with
the Beatnik Web audio player (or in Java 1.2.) This software program
is targeted primarily at Web page developers who want to take
advantage of RMF's exceptional sound quality, interactivity, and
copyright protection. Composers and musicians will also find this
tool invaluable if they need to publish their music on the Web. >
http://www.headspace.com

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Extra-Audionary News:

RealNetworks versus Microsoft
July 23, 1998: < Rob Glaser, now chief executive of RealNetworks Inc.
(Nasdaq: RNWK), said Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is taking actions
that "unless remedied, will make the computing world less friendly
and less useful to customers, and will slow down technical
innovation significantly." >
< ZD Virtual Labs tested the recently released beta RealNetworks' G2
media player using both Internet Explorer and Netscape
Communications Corp.'s Navigator browsers. The findings?
"Microsoft is right," said Larry Seltzer, technical director of ZD
Virtual Labs. "It's completely unjustifiable for RealNetworks to say
that Microsoft has changed something that broke the G2 player." >
< RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser used the faulty software during a
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to level a series of ??
accusations against Microsoft. >

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< CyberCafe with an Attitude?and a Musical Mission >, by Joie
Kelly
(mailto:joie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, CSNetwork: http://www.cyber-star.com)

London continues to lead the music world through the digital
window provided by the Internet at the Backspace CyberCafe,
http://www.backspace.org/.  Even their website is a window into the
creative minds of it's members, the creativity that is changing the
way we use the Internet. Backspace is an "open environment for
exploration and expression on the Internet and the focal point for
related events, audio, visual and otherwise, with particular bias
toward the diverse talents its members," and features a unique
collection tools for enhanced use of the Internet.

While CyberCafes continue to evolve, driven by content and
passionate creative ambition, in the Winchester Wharf area of
England, Backspace CyberCafe, known as "bakspc", provides a laid-
back hub of on-line creativity for artists, musicians who come from
everywhere to create music and art on the Internet. Billed as the
Backspace Media Lab & Riverside Lounge, this café is much like a
studio, which creates a busy, artistic, buzz-room, emphasizing the
unique needs of their customers, rather than the need to create an
upscale image.  Unconventional is the key here as customers are
invited to serve themselves to a pot of tea!

Other popular multimedia cafes like the Global Café, Webshack or
Cyberia, host live events, digital art shows and webcasts, often used
as the backdrop for TV and News events, the nonprofit Backspace is
more of a community center, surrounded by the offices of various
record labels.

The website should give you a clue as to the unconventional and
community aspects of this artistic and creative venue?I never did
find the BackWeb Radio Show?.but I did get to see the birth of a
beautiful baby girl, Laurel Anne J :)
http://www.backspace.org

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< Digital signal processing (II) >, by Joel Chadabe
(mailto:chadabe@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Electronic Music Foundation:
http://www.emf.org)

As we've said before, we're at the twilight of MIDI and at the
beginning of a new era in electronic music technology characterized
by digital signal processing. Why is it better than what has come
before? What are its benefits? The answer is: better control over
sound. And better control over sound means several things. It
means more detailed control: In the digital domain, we can generate
and edit sound at any level of detail from the structural to the sample.
It means more intuitive control: We can develop graphical user
interfaces that can obviate much of the need for technical expertise.
It means more flexible control: We can connect performance controls
to audio variables in any way. And it means more intelligent control:
Using directed random systems, we can explore sound territories in
ways that would otherwise be impossible. In enough time, we may
even come up with some viable design solutions for a new musical
instrument.

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MUSIC for NEW MEDIA supports:

Popkomm. - The Fair for Pop Music and Entertainment, 13 - 16th
August 1998,
KoelnMesse Trade Fair Complex, Cologne, Germany. Trade Fair,
Congress and
Komm.Unity - The Popkomm. Festival.
Tel. +49 (0)221 916550, fax +49 (0)221 91655110
E-mail: popkomm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.popkomm.de

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