Archive for September, 2002

Load­star Records got their new web­site — go check it out — they’ve got some nice music on there…

Spent 10 hours yes­ter­day in the com­pany of good friends at LAB attend­ing RADAR. The dan­ish pio­neer Else Marie Pade was present to wit­ness the launch of the cd EMP — 7 CIRKLER, a project with remixes of her orig­i­nal piece 7 CIRKLER from 1958. She brought along some friends, all of them elderly ladies nod­ding their heads to the beats of Bjørn Svin and the like play­ing with her work. Couldn’t help to notice she looks a bit like my grandmother’s sis­ter… A truly great lineup of inter­est­ing names made the day a very pleas­ant expe­ri­ence — loaded with noise, tex­tures, weird sound­scapes and elec­tronic engineering.

Lis­ten­ing to Chris­t­ian Kleine while doing stuff for uni­ver­sity reminded me to remind you: go buy — you won’t regret it!

Beyond Repair + Valis

Post­ing the pre­vi­ous post I noticed an inter­est­ing design flaw on my index page: If the page — which holds the posts for the past 14 days — didn’t con­tain enough posts, the lay­out got all messed up. Unable to cope with the pres­sure of actu­ally hav­ing to pub­lish stuff I decided to fix the code instead…

Noth­ing impor­tant, but it is SO annoy­ing being taken out by the flue. Haven’t been able to do any­thing for 3 days. Stuck with bad cable tele­vi­sion and cof­fee. Have to get well soon — get­ting bored and stressed out…

Actu­ally, this was going to be my plan. After stop­ping post­ing unim­por­tant per­sonal stuff, I was going to pull it off by shar­ing thoughts about the post-dot com-crash soci­ety. But now he told every­one. On the other hand — he didn’t sup­ply a per­ma­nent link, so I can’t link prop­erly to his post. Which in a few days won’t mat­ter any­way — which proves his point even more… Damn… And no, eng­lish is not my first language.

TVDan­mark is obvi­ously not here to brod­cast pro­grams with actual, rel­e­vant con­tent. And in some odd way, that’s ok. But in their recent ad all of a sud­den good qual­ity equals hav­ing no guts and is used as an f-word. How did that happen…?

Not quite sure I under­stand the con­cept of eth­nic weapons. Mod­ern prim­i­tive weapons for chil­dren of all ages?

Nap­ster is now gone but the impact it had on the music busi­ness and the devel­op­ment and use of p2p net­works is truly amaz­ing. The debate regard­ing copy­right how­ever hasn’t moved on. It seems you have to be either pro or con — pro mean­ing dis­re­gard­ing the copy­right of all artists. Sur­prise, sur­prise — it doesn’t have to be that way. It all comes down to the music indus­try being to slow in devel­op­ing solu­tions as requested by their cus­tomers; the tech­nol­ogy is there, and if the music indus­try doesn’t do some­thing — the users will. I still need to see hard evi­dence of p2p net­works being directly respon­si­ble for the slight drop in music sales — to me com­pet­ing media prod­ucts (often from the same com­pa­nies) are far more likely to cause this. And while I respect every artist’s right to make money off their hard work, I equally respect users world­wide who like to try before they buy, who gets a chance of lis­ten­ing to live gigs and live sets nobody makes money off any­way and at the same time gets the chance to use their p2p soft­ware for legal pur­poses. Peer-to-peer does not equal break­ing copy­right laws. It’s not all black and white, you know. Thank you Napster.

Statens Bilin­spek­tion pulled the plug on the good old Fiesta today. The list of things to be fixed were so long that it meant the death of the old car. Gee — I’ve used that car for every­thing… But hey ho — sum­mer bik­ing it is… And it’s healthy too.