Mod-Music@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/14/87)
Really-From: uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor@seismo.CSS.GOV (Pereant Qui Ante Nos Nostra Dixerunt) Hello. I am down to about the last 15 or so copies of "A Little Net.Music: The USENET Cassette," having sat on some orders for a while (while I worked on my *real* job-sorry for the delay) and finally sent them. Unless there is a prairie fire of sudden interest in them, I don't think I shall re-order them. For the layman, this means that your last chance to get a net tape for only $4.25 is just around the corner. Having said that, I should point out that the next tape will have a long way to go (in whatever form it assumes) to beat this one for its sheer, nervy collision of styles and shapes. Although I hope this isn't true, I fear that I'll have polished stuff coming out my ears for the next tape (all those people who didn't actually believe that I was serious about doing the tape) and a little less of the rough-and-ready things that the first one posesses. Okay. This is the official announcement that the ingathering of material for the second net.tape (as yet untitled) has begun. Stemming from a large amount of net correspondence, there are a few things you should know: The submissions are open to everyone with a real live, verifiable network ID. I know that's arbitrary for your brother or boyfriend or whomever, but the object of this undertaking is to stimulate *contact* between persons via the network medium. This means that pseudonyms are out....you have to be revealed as your real self. The best chance you have of having something make it onto the tape will rely (I hope) on doing the best version of what *you idiosyncratically* do, not in being trendy or anti-trendy. I'm pulling myself up to my full bourgeois pluralist height here and claiming that I pledge myself to be the advocate of *all* save the arrogant elitists among you (they can fend for themselves). As proof, I can only offer my last bit of net.editing and net.assembling on your behalf. I have some turf to defend now. If you've submitted before, you can submit again. In one of those situations (I think they'll be rare) in which there are 2 of exactly the same thing (or nearly), the new person may get the benefit of the shave with Occam's razor. I'll worry about this when it really happens. Remember that if you submit stuff the second time around, you've got your own tough act to follow. It will also be of immeasureable help if your work is *short.* 4 minutes tops is best, shorter is just fine, 5 minutes puts you in some trouble. I realize that this is an arbitrary limit that interferes with the scope and breadth of some of your work (it certainly puts the hex on *my* stuff, anyway. It only gives me time for one tempo change and level shift at most....), but it's the best chance that we've got of keeping the input of persons maximized. With the exception of a jazz chart or classical performance, the work you submit must be original. I'd particularly like to stress that I'm quite actively interested in some of the kinds of performance that didn't make it onto the last tape (folk, industrial, bop, classical originals etc.). I know that for some of you who've responded by mail, it's hard to have your work placed along- side stuff that you either hate or don't consider to be music or would never listen to. I'd urge you to send me the stuff anyway...it might be worth it to somebody. Your work should be a cassette dub (the best dub you can manage, please. I'm resolved not to be swayed by the vagaries of how much disposable income you've got to spend on geegaws, but your work will dub off a little better if it's a good cassette) of *recent* work. We are assuming that anyone who submits is currently producing musical work and not dubbing off something from their youth. One of the things this project serves to do is to put us in touch with other working artists. If you elect to send me more than one thing, please enclose a full and complete set of liner-type notes for the record- ing, and rank your order of preference for the stuff you send me. As happened last time, I shall make every effort to use your choice for #1. If you've got some sort of commer- cial cassette or LP release out there, by all means include the information about where to find you that I can include with those notes. We want other people to know about your work. Be sure that you include both your real *and* your elec- tronic address with whatever you send me for possible inclu- sion. I may need to be in touch with you to fill in the details or discuss something. Finally (and this is a delicate matter for me, since I've been thinking pretty hard about it), this cassette will be a tad more expensive than the last one. The costs of my dupli- cation are going up and I misjudged postage costs on the last one and I didn't figure any sort of cushion for han- dling costs. So (except for those 5 or 6 kind souls who sent me a check for $5 and told me to buy a can of Jolt with the leftover $.75. Bless you.) I lost a little money on the deal. I hope that this doesn't offend any of you too terri- bly, but I'd like to add in a little handling of my own here. I'm also looking into some interesting and inventive ways to package the cassette to make a more interesting and "fun" object. Y'know-ART.... So there you have it. It's not like you've only got 3 weeks to send me the cassette, but I'd appreciate it if you'd get on the stick. I held up the last cassette for quite a while for stuff that didn't ever show up, and I'd like to avoid that if possible. FINALLY, here is the address for contact: Gregory Alan Taylor USENET tape project 602 Russell St. Madison, WI 53704 United States If you're desparate to talk about what you're doing (this means that you might want to eschew doing this while I'm working, okay?), I can be reached at (608) 221-9001 (work. Please use this sparingly) (608) 246-9621 (home or answering machine) Thank you very much for your time. I look forward to hearing from you (figuratively and literally), and I'm as excited about this one as I was last time. Regards, Greg -- A silence so rare/more than I can stand/sweeps like a flood through life's flesh and blood/and steals away/with my heart. Gregory Taylor:[...ihnp4!nicmad OR ...uwvax]!astroatc!gtaylor