Mp3 Distribution: Suggestions?

Does anybody have suggestions as to ways of distributing/posting MP3s? I have 3 pieces I have made with my Reaktor stuff and would like to make them available.

They are too big for rachMiel's excellent Reaktions site.

David Morris

 

how big is too big?

rick

 

The the best piece is 27 meg; the others are around 18 or 17.

Thanks for asking.

 

any *one* of those would be fine ... 20 mb is the limit, but 27 is close to 20, because 7 is a prime number, and as everyone knows, prime numbers collapse to 0 in the presence of musical eructation.

rick

 

Depending on your methods used to create them (yeah yeah, I know...), I'd be glad to host them for you on ruccas.org. Drop me an email if you have any questions: john at johnnowak.com. Files totaling up to 100MB should be no issue.

 

Among those intellectuals anxious to reconcile themselves with the phenomenon and eager to find a common formula to express both their reservations against it and their respect for its power, a tone of ironic toleration prevails unless they have already created a new mythos of the twentieth century from the imposed regression. After all, those intellectuals maintain, everyone knows what pocket novels, films off the rack, family television shows rolled out into serials and hit parades, advice to the lovelorn and horoscope columns are all about. All of this, however, is harmless and, according to them, even democratic since it responds to a demand, albeit a stimulated one. It also bestows all kinds of blessings, they point out, for example, through the dissemination of information, advice and stress reducing patterns of behavior. Of course, as every sociological study measuring something as elementary as how politically informed the public is has proven, the information is meager or indifferent. Moreover, the advice to be gained from manifestations of the culture industry is vacuous, banal or worse, and the behavior patterns are shamelessly conformist.

 

Take your post-modern generators and go to hell!

 

? bob is this really you?

remember when you fell asleep duing a gig i did in Austria?

also, i have seen you with 2 powerbooks

so maybe you are not bob.

maybe
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/LMCframeset3.html

sowari

 

So Adorno is back from the dead to trash computer music after having trashed jazz while alive...

The article linked by 'Adorno' I think makes the error that Adorno made re. jazz: thinking that tools and conventions define music as if putting it in a straightjacket, leaving no room for creativity, freedom, novelty. On this kind of argument, you could trash player pianos as leading to endless mass consumption duplication of the same old popular music, as if in advance it would be impossible for somebody like Conlon Nancarrow to come along and to use this very mechanism to make a piano do something never possible before. As if Iannis Xenakis, James Tenny and so on could make their music without computers. As if there is nothing of interest in what some DJ computer music makers are doing with computers. Sure, a lot computer music might sound the same, and be conventional, but that doesn't mean all of this music should be condemned. Every single human music form ends up having conventions. That's in the nature of musical form; sounds want to turn into one another, and people playing them learn these turns and teach them.

Anyway, I think Reaktor invites and enables doing things that break the conventions built into software that is built to perpetuate popular conventions. And that's what I like about what a number of people here are doing. And everything I've done in Reaktor works on this, especially getting away from fixed rhythms.