a very impressive x-open proposal! it looks like many
things have practically improved.

1) realaudio mixing
a few days ago i visited a friend who has successfully
installed a harddisk-recording system on a windows PC.
he uses some kind of multi-DA-channel audio-card
(from terratec i think which comes with own drivers).
of course there is a software-mixer (Steinberg or
so) where one can mix about 8 audio-channels at once,
in realtime.

we tried around to adress the wave-channels to
realplayers. and failed. we tried it with winamp
and it worked somehow. what's the difference?

does anybody tried something like this? there
is also directX6 with a directsound driver which
allows (at least for games) to mix wave channels.
not so say the possiblities of using a 3Dsound card
or API and adress realaudio sources to certain
points in a 3D matrix. (nice fictional Xchange
interface i talked with Janis about in London)
it would be good if the lusers (like me) and
heavy duty wannabe-wizards could exchange
some more info on this here.

it could-be interesting to have more of those mix-nodes,
to show that there is an interesting and problematic
potential of complexity in those ra-mixes, there is
a level where those mixes coud remind to the beauty of
japanese noise-core or at big free jazz ensembles
in the early 70ies. all i say is there is a lot to discover.

2) digital dialects *
it would be great to bring a lot of sound
material**. At the moment i am just (privatly)
encoding AudioCDs of some friends.
With MP3 it's possible to put the content
of around 14 CDs onto one CDrom !!
check the tools, at your own risk:
http://members.xoom.com/Tupperware/
(* to borrow a term from the digitale'97)
(**Wavs, MP3, XMs, Mods, GM-midi, rebirth etc. )

it could be nice to have some  selection criteria, like
no commercial  (c)'d tracks, no stuff which appears in
the cddb archive, or so...

And it would-be very helpful to have  SCSI based systems to
connect harddisks from home or other equipment.

3) how to?
     maybe different people can check
     different archives. let's think about it
     as a kind of net-sound-DJs filtering
     all that trash universe out there....
     let's make a list of some ok
     net.sound archives. (not only real audio
     there's a bunch of digital dialects!)
     and post them here... it's not only
     real.com, really.

recommendation:
-> "Rechenzentrum",
      a new Berlin based electronic listening ensemble
      coming out of the collective who run the 'Eimer'
      a squatted performance space. This group has some
      relation to the "Elektronauten", well known in Berlin
      from the radio100 times of the late 80ies. they say
      they relate to stockhausen,  godard and the situs,
      more info at:
http://orang.orang.de/
(search authors for 'Rechenzentrum')






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