Michael Gogins wrote:
>It's fun. Again, what kind of studio did you use to make this?
>I imagine at least some of it is Csound - how much? What bandwidth did you
use
>for the initial recording? And what MP3 encoding rate did you use?

"Big Dog" I did with a four track recorder a couple of synths & effects
processors, an 8-bit sound card for the voice samples and Cool Edit for the
vocal effects.  It's about five years old now and I did not use any Csound.
I rescued it from the four-track master by digitizing it. (Matrix 6R, Roland
D10, Harmonica, PowerTracks, Fostex X-26 4-Track, Boss-SE70)

"Technology World" I used 90% Csound for generating the sounds.  The only
things that did not use Csound were some of the whooshing noises which I
created by modifying Csound noises with CoolEdit and the Vocoder which was a
sample of my voice processed through a Csound vocoder.  I assembled all of
the samples with Multiquence.  Everything was recorded at 44.1 kHz and
encoded at 128 kBit/s.

".99c" started out as a single long improvised jam on the Matrix 6R recorded
live.  I later added the rhythm and some embellishments generated with
Csound.

"Cosmic Forge" This was done at the same time as "Big Dog" and uses the same
gear with the addition of a DX-100.

>Is software compatible with capitalism, or does it tend to
>the condition of anarchic socialism?


I had to consider giving away the music, but it is fun to make and hopefully
some people will find it fun to listen to.  It doesn't do much good sitting
on my computer or decaying on a cassette tape.  If it were to start becoming
popular I could move it over to the pay section or perhaps make try to sell
some new stuff.  Before MP3 there was really no good way to distribute music
over the net because the files were so large.  With 10:1 compression it
becomes possible.

Someone who wants to make money from their music would want to be careful
how they do it.  MP3's can be a powerful marketing tool if used correctly
but the music made available on MP3's can easily be pirated.

Regards,
Hans Mikelson