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Differing attitudes towards Spotify

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 09:19
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This entry from Jonas Andersson's liquidculturblog has called my attention as I have just tried out spotify myself. I only tested it briefly but wondered what it can do what last.fm cant already do better together with many other things. But here you can read a much more informed opinion.

Moves in Media Art: Introduction

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 11:13

This is the first chapter of my planned thesis which I submitted for upgrade. I finished this version before the holidays and, reading it now, can already see some weaknesses, but I hope the framework, how the plan for the research is laid out, can stand. I would be very happy for comments because so far few people have seen this.

Pier Tide

Submitted by Lindsay on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 13:01
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This is a recording of the last tide of the day, coming in under Achiltibuie Pier on a summer evening in North West Scotland on 6th August 2008. The recording is very quiet as the weather conditions were sunny and calm; however there is a slight electrical noise that I was not aware of at the time of the recording, which is common-made electro-magnetic interference for which the hydrophone needs to be balanced.


3:35 minutes (4.1 MB)

Quarry Dive

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 12:59
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This is a clip of an audio recording of a quarry dive. The hydrophone is sitting approximately 5 metres under the water against the side of the rocks. I could not get the microphone any further under as I was seven metres or so above on a mini-cliff which meant throwing the microphone in from height. Boddam Quarry is a fresh-water training site for dive clubs, so at this point there was six divers in total in the water.


3:36 minutes (4.14 MB)

Firth of Forth

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 12:23
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In October last year I made my first audio recording of the Firth of Forth from a diving rib that was around 500-600 metres away from the main deep shipping channel. My hydrophone was at approximately 20 metres in depth and highlights that the attenuation of sound through water is extremely efficient. As I was making the recording, a large tanker appeared further up the estuary a couple of miles away, the noise of its engines slowly increasing until it was quite overpoweringly noisy.


1:04 minutes (1.23 MB)

An Email from Variant

Submitted by Lindsay on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 08:27
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THE FUTURE OF THE ARTS IN SCOTLAND

CREATIVE SCOTLAND : An artists' briefing paper

There is much confusion over the formation of Creative Scotland and its remit, responsibilities and functions. What the proposed changes will mean for artists is being still further confused in what appears to be inter-agency horse trading. In the absence of transparency, the need for "confidence" in the "process" is much invoked. Here is what we think is actually going on...

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