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To: zappo@iijnet.or.jp
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 02:45:21
From: Irdial-Discs <irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net>
Reply-To: Irdial-Discs <irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net>
Subject: [ZAPPO 366] Irdial-Discs in conjunction with The Breakfast Club and
Subcyberia presents Music for RealAudio: Beautyon 'gggzzink'
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Irdial-Discs in conjunction with The Breakfast Club and Subcyberia
presents a 1 hour piece of music written for RealAudio, which will
be performed on sunday the 19th of November.
To hear the performance you will need to follow these instructions:
Download and install the RealAudio Player software from:
http://www.realaudio.com
After you have installed the RealAudio Player, set the baud rate of
your Trumpet winsock or similar TCP/IP interface to 14,000 or 9600,
and then fire up your connection. Test the RealAudio Player on the
examples that reside on the RealAudio site, to make sure that your
setup is working.
The pointer to the performance URL will reside at the Irdial Discs
site. On the 19th, Web to:
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/gggzzink.htm
You will be taken to the performance area, where you will be able to
hear:
Music For RealAudio
Beautyon: 'gggzzink'
This performance will be relayed in an amplified form at the
breakfast club (the physical Subcyberia space) so if you are in
London, please go to:
24 Scala Street
LONDON W1P 1LU
44+171+813+1926
The Breakfast Club is open all day.
The file will exist for 24hrs only. After this time, it will be
deleted from the server, and will not be made available again.
Irdial-Discs is interested in recieving recordings of this
performance, from where you are connected.
If you require any further information before the performance,
feel free to email irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net
What it is....
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RealAudio is one of a new breed of software that allows web users
to listen to sound over the web in real time. Before the advent of
RealAudio, web users had to spend hours downloading huge files to
hear a few minutes of sound from the web. Now, thanks to compression
ratios of up to 20 to 1, real time sound can be heard a few seconds
after the click of the mouse.
There is however, a drawback to compression.
The algorithms used to achieve these high compression ratios are
destructive to the sound that is encoded, so much so, that the
compression-distortion creates a beautiful, fractured sound making
compression software systems into a new form of musical instrument.
Immediately after trying RealAudio, we thought of writing
music specifically for the RealAudio player. This piece of music is
carefully designed so that it will <i>not</i> survive the
compression/decompression cycle. When this piece arrives at your
speakers via the web, it will be utterly destroyed/mutilated as it
is performed by the player.
Data on the web travels in packets, which may sometimes get lost or
arrive out of order. RealAudio tries to fix this in real time by
guessing the content of lost packets, and so, each person listening
to this 'Music for RealAudio' piece will recieve a very different
performance.
The slower your modem/internet connection, the better the result
will be.
Make sure that you have the 'Losss Correction' box checked
in the 'Options' dialog, so that the RealAudio player interpolates
any missing data.
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