This Bay Area Women in Film & Media event sounds like it could be interesting. It appears to be geared to people newer to sound work but worth your time none-the-less.
THE MAGIC OF SOUND:
Creating & Using Sound for
Film, Video and All Other Media Projects
(THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO BOTH MEN & WOMEN)
A Rare Look at the Various
Elements of Sound
What technology and methods are involved in creating sound?
Why is audio such a key component to a great media project?
What technology is used in both major motion pictures and smaller projects?
What does it take to get any type of music (legally & in budget!) into your project?
What should media makers know about sound before they start shooting – the do’s and don’t’s of audio in filmmaking.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21st
at Z Space/Theater Artaud
450 Florida Street, San Francisco from 7 – 9:30 pm
Check it out HERE.
audio equipment, audio events, audio tips, audio training, how to, internet broadcasting, internet radio
learning, production training
For a number of years I’ve listened to a small Internet radio station put out by a guy up in Canada. It’s one of the best reggae “shows” you’ll ever find. Tracing the roots of Jamaican music 24 hours a day. I figured that to help start the week off right I’d pass the link on to anyone interested in some seriously positive sounds.
http://www.azevedo.ca/scratch/default.aspx
Scratch Radio has been broadcasting since March, 2000.
The format ranges from late-1950s mento & Jamaican-boogie into 1960s ska, through the rocksteady years and on to reggae and dub. There is no rap or hip-hop in the playlist – just some fine toasting from the likes of Prince Jazzbo, U-Roy and Big Youth (to name a few).
Due to limited bandwidth, this station can only support a limited number of simultaneous listeners (currently 62).
internet broadcasting, internet radio
internet radio, reggae
According to “Audio4Cast,” the top sales of songs on the Internet are limited to “hits”. You know, those songs that are played over and over on the radio, commercials, television shows, etc. This is not the least bit surprising to me but it’s a good point to remember when the U.S. music industry/FCC cries foul and inevitably keeps creating an environment where small webcasters like SomaFM, Pandora or even Pirate Cat Radio, are treated like Piraya and told there’s no place for them. Small outfits like this clearly bring a needed diversity of music to people (aka “the market”) and will only positively effect online music sales as people become exposed to a larger base of music. Until then I guess we’ll just cue up another Britney-Diddy-Gaga song on the ol’mp3 player…<sigh>…
internet broadcasting
consumerism, net neutrality, radio diversity
There’s a good little blog entry over on SaveTheInternet.com that praises the Internet for allowing musicians from all walks of life a more equal footing in having access to potential audiences/supporters. The article goes on to warn that this positive outcome is more and more severely threatened by major telecommunication corporations as they gain power as gatekeepers of what they believe we should have access to. The larger issue is what is called “Net Neutrality.” There is a lot to learn about the issue but essentially Net Neutrality is stating that no one body owns the Internet and all of the content on it. Therefore telecommunication corporations have no right serving as gatekeepers <cough-AOL>.
Check the article HERE.
internet broadcasting, net neutrality
internet broadcasting, internet radio, net neutrality
I’ve been researching different ways of distributing audio content and came across an interesting article. In this piece the author is responding to “old school” radio people who are predicting the end times for radio as new technologies (in this piece cell phone radio) come about. Yes, cell phone radio! I’ve been playing with it for the past few days and there are some good services out there. The best in my opinion are those that don’t require the user to download any software and don’t use the data network (incurring data charges on the users end) but simply function like a phone call (which only consumes a users minutes). But the technology is a bit young and from my experience also a bit ‘buggy’…but a cool idea!
internet broadcasting, internet radio, podcast
You like YouTube? You like radio? You tired of rehashed, tired-assed radio? Check out Vocalo.org. It’s kind of mixture of user generated content and progressive music and ideas. It’s radio with audience participation and contribution with youth emphasis! An awesome idea that people should not have a problem getting behind and enjoying. There are some super wonderful hosts over their so check’em out! www.vocalo.org
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Now playing: (Vocalo)
via FoxyTunes
internet broadcasting, internet radio
I don’t know where I would be without my SomaFM.com and all the other wonderfully different alternative online broadcasters. And if we wait a few weeks we won’t have to worry about that question as “Big Brother” wants to increase broadcasting fees by 1200 percent!!! But don’t just take my word for it:
On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio’s royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future.
At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were already double what satellite radio pays, and multiplied the royalties even further. The 2005 royalty rate was 7/100 of a penny per song streamed; the 2010 rate will be 19/100 of a penny per song streamed. And for small webcasters that were able to calculate royalties as a percentage of revenue in 2005 – that option was quashed by the CRB, so small webcasters’ royalties will grow exponentially!…
To read more please click over to this site: www.savenetradio.org!
Support Internet Radio Diversity (we’ve already lost the airwaves)…
Action, Activism, internet broadcasting
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