Climate Change … more seeds
This should turn into quite a nice resource over the next few months… http://del.icio.us/globalcool
This should turn into quite a nice resource over the next few months… http://del.icio.us/globalcool
A friend just sent me the best sms ever… “Quick question: what is a universe?” Lovely.
I often wonder quite how far the language of the Web (2.0 or not) must seem totally alien to everyone … this is a recent […]
It’s about 10 years since people started getting serious about online video distribution. RealVideo launched in ’97 and there was certainly a lot of dot.i.ness […]
Expect a lot of interesting things to start on this very soon. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html And, coming soon, http://www.global-cool.com/
Tags are going n-dimensional… Ben (the new-look Ben) & Co have implemented a nice 3D tag system using 2 spatial dimensions and the 3rd with […]
Yet another “first” … this time it’s AOL and Warner Bros. Launch In2TV – the First Broadband Television Network “In2TV begins to realize the true […]
way to go Lee http://flickr.com/photos/deity/92577318/
Significant Hi-Fi geekery (hopefully my only such post) – ATC SCM100A’s – the Rolls Royce of loudspeakers (as used by BBC, Abbey Road and many […]
It’s a sad day today … (bbc obituary) I’m glad I had the privilege of seeing him perform. Certainly one of the most influlential artists […]
A lovely review of “Binary Dust” by Steve Mayall at www.musically.com “It often seems as if digital music manufacturers compete to cram the most technology […]
The HM Revenue & Customs site gets my award for the most confusing site(s) I’ve seen in a long time. compare this with this. Both […]
At CI, we turn it up to 11 ……………………………………………………..
This is great news (the start of convergence at last): http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ “The BBC & ITV intend to test the technical possibilities of streaming more of […]
Went to Cory’s talk on yet more digital rights management attempts. Can’t help thinking that either (1) this will be far too complicated to create […]
Got a mention in the Guardian today with my CI hat on… http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1699518,00.html I said a lot more in my interview of course, like it’s […]
Talk went ok. Dominique Proust was interesting – mapping the history of Music of the Spheres from Pythagoras to Kepler to Herschel, so I followed […]
If you are near Poitier or Bourges next week you are very welcome to come along to a small festival of music and science.. I’ll […]
We just relaunched CI (www.ci-info.com and www.ci-support.com) with our new design, and started video delivery to iTunes for a dash of excitement. A nice start […]
… is doing the rounds again… so I thought a few facts would help.
Your information aura Your mobile phone changes the definition of who and what you are, and since everyone has them, changes the reality of humans […]
‘Space:Planetary Consciousness and the Arts‘ – 10th Workshop and Symposium Château d’Yverdon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (PDF 2MB)
Presented “Music and Astronomy” at the Dana Centre – Science Museum, London, UK As part of the Cybersonica “Symposium on Music and Science”, 2:30-3:45pm (also […]
“La France”, private concert on the river Thames, London (UK) Played: Tempest, Joan of Arc, Absorptance, Glass, ds2 series1
Playing around with customised CD footprints. Here, embedded in the spectrogram is an image, mashed up using Andy’s code to transform to-and-fro from spectrogram to […]
tired: pirates of the carribean fired: pirate software/music/la la la hired: pirate drugs ref: pfizer “running out of money to fund new R&D” cost of […]
Resonance FM (London (UK) radio) Played Absorptance, and ds2 series1 Here’s an example sound and image for the show
DEAF04: Affective Turbulence – Rotterdam (Netherlands) Biennial international festival for electronic art Played ds2 series1 Download Visual Presentation (PDF 2.4MB)
SPRAWL: Underground playground – London (UK) Played: Tempest, Absorptance, ds2 series1
DORKBOT: People doing strange things with electricity – London (UK) Talked: Music and Astronomy Played: ds2 series1
Consolidated Independent (CI) is a world leading digital distribution company. Acting on behalf of the Independent Music sector, it delivers music, audiobooks and video to […]
ACOUSTIC SPACE: RT32 Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the conversion of the RT32 telescope at VIRAC, Riga & Irbene, Latvia. A collaboration between VIRAC, RIXC […]
Date Title 2004-03-29 BBC Charter Review feedback for WMF 2004-03-01 “Primer” on Internet Broadcasting for VET 2004-02-28 “EFF Response – Music Licensing” (hublog feedback) 2004-02-20 […]
Invited speaker – “Broadcast Assassins” an internal BBC workshop for key managers Quite nice to be invited to, albiet by this time most people should […]
In response to [published in the proceedings from] Westminster Media Forum “BBC 2016 Charter Renewal” meeting 2004-02-25 at Millbank Tower. Inverting the Model Working at […]
Webcasting, Streaming, Digital Downloading and Broadcasting All these terms refer to the same thing: the ability to distribute media. Until recently, we’d been using TV, […]
In response to http://www.eff.org/share/collective_lic_wp.php Summary I remember this kind of idea coming from the utopian folks on the mailing lists a few years back – […]
To a scribe. Early adopters of the Internet were scribes. This is why we drown in text. Although around since pre-history, we evolved through our […]
IMA Awards – Virgin Radio win (again) This time I got to hand out the award, rather than helping them win.
Diveristy Stimuates Cultural Growth // Globalisation limits diversity. (note to self) There is no conceptual difference between cultural, social and biological diversity. Each is critical […]
© 2003 Precis Sigma aims to demonstrate the human scale of infinity. Its aim is to make human infinity a tangible concept and to allow its […]
Broadcast Engineering Article http://broadcastengineering.com/ar/broadcasting_internet_broadcasting/
Streaming Handbook launches Amazon link Technology of Video and Audio Streaming (Paperback), by David Austerberry (fwd: Gavin Starks)
Radio Academy – Online Radio Conference I was one of the speakers… quite interesting watching this industry evolve. Will be interesting to see when TV […]
Human Tamagochi is a mass-market, consumer-controlled interactive TV format.
Invited speaker on an NAB panel – with Real, MS and Apple My second NAB experience – only 111,000 delegates this time. And I still […]
Communications Week interview on Multicasting and such-like, only partly available online article
Invited speaker at the Distributing Digital Music conference, London. Quite why anyone thinks they’ve got a grasp on this I don’t know. If only they […]
Scientific American quotes me about, of all things, day-trading …. go figure.
d::gen launched (although it existed inside some other sites from about 1997) – after I left Virgin.net, and just after setting up Tornado Productions. The […]
d::gen unpacks as ‘digital generation network’, or ‘data generation network’, for ‘networking in a digital generation’ The double colon is derived from both the “scope […]
Various StreamingMedia.com articles and presentations at conferences: 2001-10-24 2000-03-16 1999-10-19
Wrote a 3-part feature for .Net magazine (Future Publishing) called “Sound on the Web” (I really enjoyed doing this)
“Adding Sound to your Website”, The Mix magazine, Future Publishing Unfortunately I don’t have the copy for this any more…
A major NAB presentation on “Internet Broadcasting” with CNN and ABC on the same session. I thoroughly confused the audience by trying to describe the […]
Lecture to the British Computing Society – “Broadcasting on the Internet”
Vision & Audio conference – “Internet for Broadcasters”
Webcaster of and contributor to NVA‘s amazing Virtual World Orchestra This was the first significant live event webcast for me (setting aside Virgin Radio, the […]
Computer-music festival in Australia. Played “Glass” in concert
ICMC Computer-music festival in Hong Kong. Premiered “Glass” in Hong Kong UST GLASS [8m08s] 1996 The French surrealist literary movement ‘ecriture automatique’ expressed the inner […]
I joined Virgin Net as the 5th employee, in 1995. 2 weeks later they took the ex-Wired UK / Guardian PDU team wholesale, including Tony […]
ICMC Computer-music festival in Banff, Canada. Played “Tempest” (listen) TEMPEST [6m13s] 1993 Drawn from the essence of drama in the play; the struggle of humans […]
Published and presented Starks, G.R. & Linton, K.N. (Feb. 1994). “A 3-D Stereo Processing Tool“, 96th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Part of the results of my Masters Degree in Computer-Music from Glasgow University. Amongst other things, we “streamed” uncompressed WAV files between Glasgow and Edinburgh, […]
I worked here as an Experimental Officer here 1994-95 … coding, data processing, supervising students, and helped set up their website in ’94.
Working as a researcher at the University of Glasgow, I surveyed all the free digital signal processing (DSP) and music software available on the Internet. […]