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Thursday, 28 October 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE&feature=share

Interesting Blog

http://grantgoddardradioblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/dab-radio-usage-going-nowhere-slowly.html

Tour manager survey results

http://livemusicbusiness.com/tour-management/results-of-the-concert-tour-management-survey-2010/

BBC Writers room. Interesting interview.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/writing_for_radio.shtml


Release Date: 28 Oct 2010 

WE SAY:
A sample is a small part of the whole, selected because it’s a premier example of its class. Stroboscopic Artefacts’ sampler series returns with the Delta Sampler, four tracks that traverse electronic music possibilities from straight up techno to oblique drone.
Opener “LX1” sees Lucy and Xhin teaming up for the first collaboration between two SA core artists. Dark, slightly brooding, the meeting of their minds is mapped out with incisive kicks, knotty dub and hi hat sizzles. It’s the start of a collaboration that’s going to be worth following.
Fresh from his SA006 12” release, Jonas Kopp takes the vinyl’s mood and adds menace. “M33” is a 4/4 structure filled with discontent, the track strains with aqueous grumbles and tense peak time techno emerges.
Inigo Kennedy and Isodyne’s “Lagrange Point ” borrows its structure from the observations of physics. Scientifically speaking the “Lagrange Point” is where celestial bodies appear to be stationary despite constantly moving. Their “Lagrange Point” is a baseline that fluxes between a background of reverberating pads and a foreground of slithering chords, but somehow remains constant.
From here the sampler closes with “Inside The Shadows”, Forward Strategy Group’s malevolent slice of drone. The complex sequence of loops builds a reflective atmosphere that revels in the hidden, the hinted at, the latent. It’s the perfect soundtrack for an ecstatic afterhours experience.

All tracks craftily mastered by Artefacts Mastering, Berlin.

THEY SAY:
Dj (press - radios - clubs below)

Laurent GarnierAnother great release on the Stroboscopic Artefacts. Will play for sure.

Surgeon
Great work again on Stroboscopic Artefacts.

Peter Van Hoesen
Strong release. Lagrange Point is the one for me. Inside the shadows is perfect as the intro to a long, intense dj set.

Chris Liebing
5 out of 5

Perc
5/5 Yes, yes, yes. Great EP. Maybe one of the best overall EP's of the year. All tracks are very strong and the M33 track is especially savage. Love it, full support.

Terence Fixmer
All track have something. I like it and good atmosphere.

Technasia
5/5 Stroboscopic is one of my favourite labels. Excellent release as usual. Full support.

DVS1
Thank you! Lucy and Xhin for the win on this one. Kopp for a close second. Nice one!

Dave Martin
great stuff as ever! Can't wait to play M33 and LX1

Edit Select
M33 is shakin , thanks

Pfirter
5/5 Great package, challenging sound as usual!

Drumcell
5/5 LX1 is FIRE! good work guys

Alex Bau

Nice and dark again, however not sure yet what works best in my sets. thank you, cool label!

Brendon Moeller
Lagrange point doing it for me.

Audio Injection
5/5 more amazing stuff, keep em coming!

Norman Nodge
Good techno tracks. thanks.

Bas Mooy
5/5 Great release! Full support!!

Dino Sabatini
Awesome!!!!

Electric Indigo
Really like inside the shadows as well. will play m33 most. many thanks!

Darko Esser
Very good as always on SA!

Eric Cloutier (The Bunker)
Pretty killer collection of tracks here! lucy + xhin sure knocked it out of the park, its great to see inigo kennedy back on production, and the fsg drone track is fantastic. not reall feeling the jonas, though - a little too industrial for me.

Jeff Derringer (Oktave)
Love the release. Will definitely play. Particularly inspired by LX1. Nice work again SA!

Dave Twomey aka TR NCH
5/5 Holy shit... this is headed for the front of my box right now. LX1 is absolutely massive... jonas track is a useful tool but a little dry and predictable for me personally. Lagrange back to the quality. could be either very Berghain, or very Labyrinth...or a bit of both! like it a lot.. final track is very cool indeed.

Max Bacharach COLONY, London
Jonas's piece is heavy (Berghain material methinks), and FSG's addition is scary as fuck. I'm a big fan of doomy ambient (KTL, Yellow Swans, Xela, etc), so it's right up my street. Will be sure to use it in a mix at some point :-)

Truss
Very difficult to pick a fav here, feeling them all, although Jonas Kopp is always on point for me. Nice to see Innigo Kennedy, Isodyne and FSG on SA
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Obtane
5/5 Amazing !

Samuel L Session
Good dark techno stuff, will play!

Claudio PRC
5/5 Ultra quality sampler! Love Inigo Kennedy & Isodyne Track!

Luis Flores
Deep Cavernous Industrial Techno!

Arnaud Le Texier
Nice ep as usual! My favorites are M33 and Lagrange point nice vibe in the last one.

Joseph Capriati
Phat release! will support it! thanks.

Rossella
5/5 lagrange point is for me tnx.

Tom Bonaty (Prologue)
5/5 No light at the end.... Wunderfull and full support for this awsome EP!!

Tom Verhoeven (Curle)
Inigo Kennedy is my choice here, tnx

Leonard Posso (Thema)
Hot DAMN son!, i cant get me enough of SA, Full on proper TECHNO! M33 for me all the way

Donor
5/5 Keep 'em coming... All tracks are great! Thank You.

Markus Suckut
5/5 Beautiful sampler! M33 is my favourite here!

Toni D
All the ep is very nice my favorite is lucy and xhin track i will play tomorrow @ fabric birthday...

DAB roll-out. Will they pay for a DAB in every car?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/19/bbc-dab-digital-radio-vaizey

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/28/rajars-digital-radio

The Ginger and the annoying fat bloke effect

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/28/rajars-radio

Mmmmmm at

The Oxford English Dictionary takes 9,000 words to describe the 45 different meanings of the word 'at'.

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

LB127 Homework

Week 4 Homework  LB127  Euan McAleece. 27/10/10

Summary:
 “We’re All In This Together” Transmitted 11am BBC Radio 7 daily. To show the electorate they can relate to the working class, the leaders of the coalition swap for one week Downing Street for a council flat. They will live together in a three bedroom high-rise in Tower Hamlets, and survive wholly on benefits.  How will David, George and Nick be able to eat after one of them spends their entire Giro, on wine and olives?

Treatment:
 We’re All In This Together.
15 min
Political satire.
This will be a five part sit-com. The conceit of the programme is that David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, will for one week move into a council flat and live together, with only the equivalent of unemployment benefit to live on.  The programme will be a mixture of diary excerpts and recorded narrative with sound FX to provide actuality.  The conflicts between the characters as they get on with the mundane moments of normal life will relate to topical political issues in an amusing way.  For example George spending the housekeeping money on lottery tickets would relate to his handling of the economy. How they react to living in a council flat will show the distance between these privileged members of the political elite and your average working class family.
The Target audience will be politically aware comedy fans. I believe it would suit BBC Radio 7s remit.
The show would be available as a podcast and on I player, as well as longer omnibus at the weekend.
The intro and music bed will be the chorus from “We’re all in this Together” By Ben Lee from the 2006 album “Awake is the New Sleep” Ten Fingers/Inertia records.
Refection
In class we looked at a newspaper and related to words and images from it. We then formed into groups and discussed what these interpellations meant to us individually and as a group. We found we were all from different social backgrounds but shared similar political viewpoints.  Our choice to come up with a political satire seemed a logical one for us. The main problem we had was probably generating too many valid ideas and not focusing on the brief we were given. However we did focus and fairly quickly we formulated the idea for a programme.  Everyone in the group worked with enthusiasm and suggested many great ideas making the process not just productive but enjoyable also.

LB110

  • 1.       Research the different companies and areas which make up the ITV network
    2.       Take one evenings viewing on ITV and research the companies which made the programmes
    3.       Read the  article on the BFI website on the 1990 broadcasting act http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107541/index.html 
    4.    Read the article on the BFI website on the 1996 broadcasting act http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107504/index.html
    5.        Read the article on the BFI website on the 2003 communications act http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/995949/index.html 
  • radio 4 commissioning

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/radio/network/radio4.shtml

    Tuesday, 26 October 2010

    MPs bash Murdoch

    http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/content/stand-up-to-murdoch/

    BBC admits Mark Thomas filesharing show contained inaccuracies Trust committee partly upholds Feargal Sharkey complaint but rejects claim that programme was 'biased and prejudicial'


    BBC admits Mark Thomas filesharing show contained inaccuracies

    Trust committee partly upholds Feargal Sharkey complaint but rejects claim that programme was 'biased and prejudicial'

    1990 Broadcasting act summary

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2000/nov/20/broadcasting.mondaymediasection2

    Radio 4 Service Licence Information

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/service_licences/radio/radio_servicelicences/radio4_servicelicence_18dec2006.pdf

    20 things You Didn't know About Radio 4. Times Article

    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2529314.ece

    Clement Attlee

    Pondering the Tories Big society made me think of this quote;
    "'In a civilised community, although it may be composed of self-reliant individuals, there will be some persons who will be unable at some period of their lives to look after themselves, and the question of what is to happen to them may be solved in three ways – they may be neglected, they may be cared for by the organised community as of right, or they may be left to the goodwill of individuals in the community. The first way is intolerable, and as for the third: Charity is only possible without loss of dignity between equals. A right established by law, such as that to an old age pension, is less galling than an allowance made by a rich man to a poor one, dependent on his view of the recipient’s character, and terminable at his caprice'.
    Beckett, Francis. (1997) Clem Attlee A Biography By Francis Beckett, Richard Cohen Books, ISBN 1 86066 101 7

    BIG SOCIETY!

    Can you guess my politics

    http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/osborne-pay-your-taxes?source=facebook&subsource=GOtax

    Malcolm Tucker

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MSScBIopM8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGzM08Z-XNw&feature=related

    LB127. Research for radio. Listening.

    Afternoon Play.
    NO 10.
    by Jonathan Myerson
    TX 2.15pm Radio 4. 25/10/10


    This satirical drama follows the daily working of the new Conservative Prime Ministers office. The PM learns how to elect bishops, tastes many pastries and leaks a defence report detailing downsizing the Armed forces. Hoping to show his ministers the alternatives to budget cuts this ruse blows up in his face as the ministers leap on the idea, discussing how splendid an idea this is. Meanwhile a British citizen, married to one of the most wanted terrorist in the world, comes to the UK for a Kidney transplant. Surprisingly the PM is swayed by a young researcher and starts to discuss some anti war, left wing views. This is a very uplifting piece of drama.



    Cast:
    Simon Laity ..... Damian Lewis
    Connie ..... Haydn Gwynne
    Nathan ..... Mike Sengelow
    Hugo ..... Julian Glover
    Amjad ..... Arsher Ali
    Lord Copple ..... Ruper Vansittart
    Coffee Exec ..... Grant Gillespie
    Staff Nurse Melford ..... Rebecca Saire
    Zamyad ...... Ayman Hamdouchi
    Producer/Director: Clive Brill
    A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4.

    LB127. Research for radio. Listening.

    Little Blighty on the Down

    Little Blighty on the Down. 
    BBC Radio 7.
    tx Thursday 21 Oct. 9am. 30 mins.
    Satirical comedy set in a fictional English village.
    Scandal hits the parish council.

    I found this was more like a farce than a satire, it felt very old fashioned in both style, treatment and humour.

    RAJAR Figures released today

    http://radiotoday.co.uk/rajar/

    ITV net research




    http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_movies_actors/ITV.htm

    http://www.itv.com/AboutITV/Publications-Policies/default.html

    http://www.itv.com/aboutitv/commissioning-production/producersguidelines/default.html

    http://www.itv.com/aboutitv/


    ITV is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK, having begun broadcasting in 1955. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting Act 1990, its legal name has been Channel 3, the number 3 having no real meaning other than to distinguish it from BBC OneBBC Two and Channel 4; prior to this, the network had no legal overall name. In part, 3 was assigned as televisions would usually be tuned so that the regional ITV station would be on the third button, the other stations being allocated to that of the number their name contained.
    ITV is to be distinguished from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004 and which is the parent of ITV Broadcasting Limited to whom all of the Channel 3 broadcasting licences in England, Wales, theScottish/English Border and the Isle of Man were transferred in November 2008. Similarly ITV1 is the brand used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas, with STV and UTV using their own brands in their own respective areas (North and Central Scotland and Northern Ireland).












    Research for Feature. A walk In Christopher Robins Footsteps

    http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/localandfamilyhistory/localhistory/authors/milne.htm

    http://www.pooh-country.co.uk/

    http://www.ashdownforest.org/pooh/winnie_the_pooh.php

    https://e-library.eastsussex.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=milne,c&searchType=1&rcn=0413317102&fr=tl&referrer=02_001_Search.aspx

    https://e-library.eastsussex.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=milne,c&searchType=0&rcn=0413458105&fr=tl&referrer=02_001_Search.aspx

    https://e-library.eastsussex.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=sussex%20in%20fiction&searchType=1&rcn=1898941823&fr=tl&referrer=02_001_Search.aspx

    https://e-library.eastsussex.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=a%20a%20milne&searchType=1&rcn=0571138888&fr=tl&referrer=02_001_Search.aspx

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405223987/qid=1141676767/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3_3/203-0397148-0135925

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405211172/qid=1141676827/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-0397148-0135925

    http://www.just-pooh.com/index.html

    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aamilne.htm


    A.A.Milne wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.  They were inspired by the adventures of his only son Christopher Robin.  The Milne family moved from their town house in Chelsea, London, to Cotchford Farmhouse in 1924.  With them came Nanny Olive Brockwell.  From pavements to woodland paths and from the company and chatter of other Nannies to the creatures of Posingford Wood and the Ashdown Forest – the contrast for Nanny and Christopher was dramatic.  Alan Alexander Milne was a successful playwright and had stage productions on in both London’s West-End and on Broadway, New York.  He kept on the house in Chelsea and commuted by train to Sussex for the weekends.  Upon his arrival home his wife Daphne would bring him up to date with how well their son was doing. 
    Much of the information she was able to share with him had been given to her by Nanny.  It was Nanny who accompanied Christopher and actually took part in his nursery games.  The games extended into the surrounding countryside and involved his favourite nursery toys.  A.A.Milne was a keen walker and with the young Christopher became familiar with these places and consequently incorporated them into his writing.  Soon after he had submitted the stories to his publisher E.H.Shepard was suggested as the illustrator.  Milne was not immediately convinced but following a surprise visit to Hartfield by Ernest Shepard after his expedition into the Ashdown Forest through Posingford Wood and across the Poohsticks Bridge, Milne saw how he had captured the characters and the atmosphere so completely.  The stories created first by the child, then given life by the author and the illustrator have become legendary.
    When Christopher Robin Milne remembered his childhood in his book ‘The Enchanted Places' he recalled his weekly trips to the village with his Nanny and their visit to the Pooh Corner shop for bulls-eyes which were their favourites:
    "Subsequent trips included our weekly visit to Hartfield, a mile away along a main road, up a steep hill, down a steep hill and in at the first shop on the left hand side. Jessica needed no urging and the woman behind the counter no instructions. It was a pennyworth of bullseyes for each of us."
    The Enchanted Places - Christopher Milne

    Craig Browns Lost Diaries

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v2vzz

    Monday 26th Oct11:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM, episode 4.



    Utilising some fantastic impressionist, Craig Brown brings us the lost dairies of celebrities from the 1960's to present day. Fairly cutting satire considering most radio 4 listeners would be sitting down for elevenses, at the time of transmission. Including Barack Obama and DH Lawrence and many other characters.

    Thursday, 21 October 2010

    http://radiotoday.co.uk/live/radfest10/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKFTtYx2OHc
    http://graphitenorth.blogspot.com/2010/10/graphite-north-mix-volume-07-mixed-by.html?spref=fb

    LB110: Week 3 homework

    1. Research the different companies and areas which make up the ITV network
    2. Take one evenings viewing on ITV and research the companies which made the programmes
    3. Read the article on the BFI website on the 1990 broadcasting acthttp://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107541/index.html 
    4. Read the article on the BFI website on the 1996 broadcasting acthttp://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1107504/index.html 
    5. Read the article on the BFI website on the 2003 communications acthttp://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/995949/index.html 
    ___________________________________________________________

    Wednesday, 20 October 2010

    MMM

    LB127 Homework. Week 3. Euan McAleece. Radio Production.
      For our homework this week I worked with a group of classmates to come up with an idea for a programme.  My group utilised Angela Merkel’s recent comment on the failure of multiculturalism reported in the news, as a basis for a programme. We discussed many programme ideas based upon multiculturalism and narrowed our focus to look at the question “Does multiculturalism matter in today’s virtual social networks?” I will write a short summary of the programme and then develop this into a Treatment.
      This week’s “Thinking Aloud” on Radio 4 at 4pm this Wednesday, will see Laurie Taylor examining the question “Does multiculturalism matter in today’s virtual social networks?” He will be joined in the studio by Mark Granovetter from Stanford University and the author Danah Michele Boyd. They will discuss this in depth in the studio, get involved go to the “Thinking Aloud” page on bbc.co.uk

      Laurie will be joined in the studio for a live discussion with two experts. This will then be re-edited for broadcast to fit the 30 minute running time, along with a brief introduction from the presenter to state the question to be discussed and to give context and definitions of “multiculturalism” and “social networks”. The target audience of the piece will be informed older listeners who are well educated as well as those interested and studying Sociology. The studio discussion will be in depth but hopefully not too academic.
      Research into the subject, in particular the writings of the two experts should be made available to the presenter. Some audio clips and possibly VOX POP’s could be used to provide more context for the show.
    Mark Granovetter.
    - Reprinted in Marsden, Peter V.; Lin, Nan, eds. (1982), Social Structure and Network Analysis, Sage, ISBN 978-0-8039-1888-7 
    • Granovetter, Mark (November 1985), "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", American Journal of Sociology 91 (3): 481–510, doi:10.1086/228311 
    • Nohria, Nitin; Eccles, Robert, eds. (1992), "Problems of Explanation in Economic Sociology", Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School, ISBN 978-0-87584-324-7
    Danah Michele Boyd.

    References

    1. ^ Boyd, Danah. "a bitty autobiography / a smattering of facts". danah.org. http://www.danah.org/aboutme.html. Retrieved November 2, 2008. 
    2. ^ Fast Company Staff (2009-02-01). "Women in Tech: The Evangelists". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/the-most-influential-women-in-technology-the-evangelists.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
    3. ^ a b c Debelle, Penelope (August 4, 2007). "A space of her own - Encounter with Danah Boyd". The Age. 
    4. ^ Erard, Michael (2003-11-27). "Decoding the New Cues in Online Society". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/technology/circuits/27frie.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. [dead link]
    5. ^ "Taken Out of Context -- my PhD dissertation". zephoria.org. January 18, 2009. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/01/18/taken_out_of_co.html. 
    6. ^ Doctorow, Cory (2009-01-19). "danah boyd's PhD thesis: Teen sociality online". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2009/01/19/danah-boyds-phd-thes.html. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
    7. ^ "Members of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/isttf/members. Retrieved 2010-05-22. 
    8. ^ "Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/digitalnatives/policy. Retrieved 2010-05-022. 
    9. ^ McCarthy, Caroline (September 22, 2008). "Microsoft hires social-net scholar Danah Boyd". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10047795-36.html. Retrieved January 12, 2009. 
    10. ^ "MacArthur Foundation Project Summary". http://digitallearning.macfound.org/site/c.enJLKQNlFiG/b.4773555/k.27DE/Mizuko_Ito.htm. Retrieved January 9, 2009. 
    11. ^ "Final Report". The Digital Youth Project. http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report. Retrieved January 9, 2009. 
    12. ^ boyd, danah. Buckingham, David. ed. "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life". Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning (Cambridge: MIT Press). doi:10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119. ISSN 978-0262026352. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dmal.9780262524834.119. Retrieved 16 May 2010
      Our initial assignment of coming up with a programme idea and doing research in a group setting in 15 minutes was very challenging. Our original ideas where far too broad, looking at too many factors. After some useful group discussion we narrowed down our idea to something more manageable. We then met briefly and contacted each other by phone, email and indeed using social network sites. Through this we formulated a firmer idea for our story and where and when and why it should be broadcast.