Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Free Stuff
Seth Gordon tipped us to the fact that Bob Ostertag has made all of the albums to which he owns the full rights available for free download at his website. "Bob's one of the real pioneers of sound manipulation, and counts among those who've worked for/with him a practical "who's who" of avant luminaries," Seth writes. "Just off the top of my head there's Kronos, Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton, Otomo Yoshihide, William Winant, Joey Baron, Phil Minton, Gerry Hemingway... the list is pretty long. Anyway, how can anyone possibly resist checking out an album that features broken tapedecks fitted with helium balloons?"
I couldn't resist. You probably can't either.
The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra is making its concerts available on the radio and the Internet, beginning on May 4, and will start offering them available in a downloadable archive in September. The first concert to be broadcast on the web, live from the Helsinki University Hall on 4 May, is the first in the Sibelius series celebrating the centenary of the Finnish Parliament. There will be a link on the FRSO website making it possible to listen to all the FRSO concerts broadcast on YLE Radio 1.
Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?
posted by Jerry Bowles
4/19/2006
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