Re: [-empyre-] intro

[jan hendrik brueggemeier <jan@pingfm.org>]

hi there,

> There is no true "broadcasting" in a radio sense,
> because of these technical constraints.

the problem of internet as a broadcasting-medium is that one has top pay
for every single listener, the more you have the more you have to pay for
them. i very much like the concept of peercast, which let  every listener
become one relay (www.peercast.org). unfortunately this initiative didnt
really make it to a be completely reliable software yet.. but to the
brilliance of an idea will not procure its realization.
aside that i think there are general infrastructural problems in
distribute high bandwidth streams worldwide, but regarding that issue adam
should posses more substantiated knowledge resulting out of his commitment
in the open streaming alliance http://www.location1.org/ossa/ossa.html ..

> > However, this kind of
> > argument has never made much sense to artists hence
> > many artists exploit
> > this aesthetic within their work.
> To SOME artists. I find it VERY irritating and
> extremely undesireable.
> If I am to use reduced frame rate and resolution, I want it to be
> a Choice, not a Fait Accompli.

in a way companero warwick is right, i mean personally i am one of THESE
artists, who likes to produce under such conditions, but question is
which features are more important to you. referring to the musicians
form new-zealand i guess sometimes one does not really have a choice.
i mean we still live in a time where an assistant of an electronic-store
is instructed not to sell certain components to me, if he is suspicious
that i will use the components to build a radio-transmitter.
therefore on a society-level one impact of computerization of
'broad'-casting is simply the legalisation of the device as such.
on the other hand i believe that one only can enjoy certain freedoms when
you are flying beyond the radar of the main-stream and to certain degree
its lousy video-quality let streaming still be beyond the radar.
otherways one would have to deal aside technical limitations with all kind
of juridical ones as well, wich is already starting ..

aesthetically it is funny to see that noise and distortion have become
tv-ad/mainstream compatible but in a quite evacuted and discontinued way.

jan