strange how this discrepancy 
	between people who are doing it and 
	people who are talking about it is
	clouding achievements nowadays - same as it ever was -

	like audio artists since the 50's 
	are non-existant nowadays and the web reinvents
	warm water as they say in Double Ducky Dutch (DDD)


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On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Pit Schultz wrote:

> 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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