>Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:46:58 +0100
>To: Sabine Breitsameter <sbreitsameter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>From: Robert Adrian <rax@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Sounds on the web
>Cc: XCHANGE@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>Hello Sabina -
>
>Here are some answers ...
>
>You wrote:
>>- Another connected question, which you might be able to answer: Derrick de
>>Kerckhove told me of the first sounds on the web he realized, were birds'
>>voices of the museum of Sacramento. He didn't remember any more when this
>>was.  Do you have any idea?
>
>No ... but its hard to tell where/when exchange of sound and sound
>data in the interactive communications media started. During the
>80s/early 90s for instance, there was a lot of activity on the
>Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) (known in German as "Mailbox"
>systems) where musicians were exchanging sound files and midi
>code (for controlling synthesisers etc) over the various BBS
>networks. If you check the history (not an easy matter because it
>has yet to be written) you will find that there was a period in the
>early '90s when "gateways" were being built to connect the BBSs
>to the Internet to facilitate intercontinetal communication. But,
>from the point of view of "the network" and "networking", there
>is no basic theoretical difference between the BBS networks and
>the Internet - they are both just methods of connecting computers
>over the public telephone/telecommunication networks.
>For example:
>In 1992/93 Gerfried Stocker, Horst Hoertner and I built a BBS
>called ZEROnet to carry out network art projects. One project
>was "The Big Net Jam" a midi/sound project conceived by Seppo
>Gruendler who had then been working with sound/music in
>computer and telephone networks for several years. You may
>find Seppo a useful source about early computer networking by
>musicians/sound artists: <josef.gruendler@xxxxxxxxxx>
>-----
>
>>Webcasting in the current open and liberated structure means, that we are
>>on the mercy of the web. If it will administered and "regulated" it could
>>be the end of the webcast explorations (and other topics on the web of
>>course, e.g. webart).
>
>Its really impossible to predict the way the Internet - or public
>communications systems generally - will develop. I am on record
>(in 1989) as being skeptical about the Internet ever being opened
>to public access. I was wrong ... but your question suggests that
>you anticipate restrictions on public access - perhaps in the
>direction of it becoming a distribution medium like Radio or TV.
>At the moment the Internet is largely an "unprogrammed" medium.
>That is: the internet,  like the telephone, is a medium in which
>the user provides the content and the Internet Service Provider
>is just that - a service provider for your content, or content that
>you choose. So the Internet is still mainly a "Telephone" medium
>but there is clearly pressure from many sources to turn it into a
>Radio/TV-type programmed medium. Again, I'm skeptical about
>this happening ... but I've been wrong before.
>------
>
>>Do you know of concrete intended steps and measures, which would go into
>>that direction?
>
>One hears and reads all kinds of scarey rumours, conspiracy
>theories and horror scenarios ...
>It seems to me that businesses and corporations are still
>searching for a marketable "product" to finally make cyberspace
>pay ... just as the museums and art establishment are waiting
>for some "real" old-fashioned art to emerge in the net. But
>perhaps the internet is REALLY only a communication service ...
>just like the old telephone.
>
>-------------------------
>robert adrian
>wiedner hauptstrasse 37/69
>a-1040 vienna, austria
>tel.++43 1 504 3110
>fax++43 1 504 4849
>
>
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