NOTE: this blog is no longer active as of 12/07. New one: http://blog.kirchhof.com
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Thu, 13 Jan 2005
Movement Of Jah People
Rita is wanting to exhume
Bob and take him over to Shashemene, Ethiopia.
Posted at 11:00 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
[Reload all]
[E-mail]
In Other News...
Aleister Crowley's
old bed is to be exorcised.
I wonder where Jimmy Page is at
the moment... probably backmasking lyrics about it somewhere... heh...
Posted at 15:30 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
[Reload all]
[E-mail]
A Record Company That Gets It
Via Boing Boing, an entry about Artists House, a new (and I mean new) record company. From their web site:
The Artists House Difference
The Components of our Presentation:
- A CD (encoded with mp3s of all songs)
- A free DVD, containing - 24 bit/96k stereo mix
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound mix (with session footage throughout)
- A documentary on how the recording was made
- Interviews
- Music lesson
- Artists commentary throughout the music
- Printable music from a PC
- Producer comments
- Links
Artists House is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit music company dedicated to artists and listeners. We want to give our customers more value for their money and we want to give our artists other ways of communicating with their audience. We try to make our presentations entertaining and informative. We want to bring the listener into the process, to show how the recording was made. Here's how our CD and DVD work.
One of the most extraordinary features is the 24 bit/96k stereo mix. CD is 16 bit/44.1k so 24bit/96 k is a huge improvement. You should notice a difference. In fact, this may be the first time you've ever heard stereo sound this good, unless you've been listening to a lot of LPs lately. The technical specifications of the DVD did not allow us to use video with this "high resolution" audio, so we just put a photograph on the screen.
If you click on "play surround" you'll get Dolby Digital Surround Sound and you'll see a montage of session footage, photographs, and sheet music. If you don't have a surround sound receiver, and you click on this menu selection, you'll just hear stereo as you see the montage video footage.
There is also several hours of video footage showing the process of making the recording. When we could, we filmed music lessons with the artist. Oteil gives a 40 minute bass lesson, Jason gives a violin lesson, and Bob Brookmeyer gives a philosophy of music lesson.
We have interview footage with all the players on our recordings but even the DVD 9 (9 Gigabytes) wouldn't hold it. We also have scrapbooks of photographs taken at the session that are narrated by the artists, and they're funny! But no room. But there was room for an artist's commentary throughout the entire recording. This is like the director's commentary in DVD movies. The idea is for the artist to play you his new recording as if you were his best friend and he was telling you about it as it plays. (You'll find some of these interviews and scrapbooks on this website.)
One other thing that is interesting is the "hybrid" portion of the DVD. You can put the DVD in your DVD ROM drive in your PC and you can print out the music and lyrics for all of the songs on the CD. If a song is "controlled" by someone other than the artist it will probably not be available since publishers don't generally like to "give away" music. We give it away because we think you should have it.
We are encoding our CDs with mp3s and we would like for you to email them to your friends. They are properly encoded and labeled and they are tagged with our website. We want to embrace this technology, not fight it. If you send us an email and give us the addresses of those to whom you send the mp3s, we'll mail them stuff about the artists from time to time.
These are the people who will be making money (for their nonprofit
corporation -- and moreso, the artists) while the Big
Five die their highly entertaining and protracted death. Very
refreshing.
Posted at 10:37 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
[Reload all]
[E-mail]
