McLaren & other things

All-
I finally got around to putting a hundred McLaren posts on my page
as Notes on Microtonality/McLaren's posts. Like him or not, he burned up
the forum at one time on a regular basis. Thanks to Jeff Scott for the
nice HTML coding of the first 20. Also, there are a couple of new
microtonalists in the microtonal section.

I recently downloaded a piece of freeware called mp3spy. This
software searches the net for streaming mp3 sources and organizes the
sources on a screen for you to click. Winamp (get them both from
www.download.com) then plays the mp3 stream in "real" time (a little
buffering). What we have here is high fidelity internet radio. With a
little freeware called shoutcast, anyone with a machine and a dedicated
line (can be had for $30 per month in Denver for a 256K line) can be an
internet radio station. There are a lot of styles of station on the air
right now. Someone (it ain't me babe) could easily start a microtonal
internet station. I've tried the software, and it works, but I am still
getting free (albeit slow) internet from the university and won't be
getting a fast line for a little while.
Anyway, try it (at least listen). The faster servers are putting out a
signal that is finally appropriate for listening to music online, IMO.
Another blow for the little guy and the noncomformist.

John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret

>From: John Starrett <jstarret@math.cudenver.edu>
>
>What we have here is high fidelity internet radio. With a
>little freeware called shoutcast, anyone with a machine and a dedicated
>line (can be had for $30 per month in Denver for a 256K line) can be an
>internet radio station.

I looked into this some time ago. Anything that is a streaming of music
over the internet constitutes a performance and as such has to be cleared
with ASCAP or BMI in the USA. If you check out their web site, you will see
that they already have forms and fee tables for netcasters wanting to do
this. Alternatively, each composer can sign a form assigning performance
rights directly to the netcaster -- that is, ASCAP and BMI agreements with
composers are non-exclusive. As such a net radio station would involve a
lot of legal bookkeeping, I never pursued it further, but my best wishes to
anyone who wants to.

Bill

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[John Starrett:]
>I finally got around to putting a hundred McLaren posts on my page as
Notes on Microtonality/McLaren's posts. Like him or not, he burned up the
forum at one time on a regular basis.

A couple of months back I offered the [my] opinion that I had had nothing
but positive (if limited) interactions with (a very generous) Brian
McLaren... And while this obviously hasn't changed;-- reading over some of
these post, I can (now) certainly see why some of you felt otherwise... But
I still find him to be a very engaging (not to mention extremely prolific
and sometime ulcer inducing!) writer on the subject of microtonality... I
wonder why he stopped posting?

Dan