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- Title: What the hell is going on here?
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- What the hell is going on here?
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- It's been roughly five months since i announced on a few mailing lists and
- newsgrousp that i intended to start a net-zine about the making of electronic
- music. And now it's here... just a couple of months behind schedule. I had
- the interviews done by June, so what kept me?
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- It was a combination of the final stages of thesis (i'm stille editing it as
- i type) and no available WWW server. Now, the site has been established, the
- documents have been formated for HTTP and i've made some small changes about
- the plans for SoundConstructors.
-
- So here it is, the first (and hopefully not the last) issue of
- SoundConstructors. And what is it, you may ask? SoundConstructors is a
- magazine dedicated to exposing artist on and off the net that use electronic
- means for the production of their music. While this usually means bands using
- mostly electronic equipment, it could include accoustic bands that mixed
- their material in a unique way using signal processing.
-
- In addition, i hope to include articles, reviews and tech babble in future
- issues, as well as columns. SoundConstructors aims to be a source of
- information about the making of electronic music and their makers.
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- The focus of SC interviews is on the making of the music. Less of the gossip
- and the politics and the meaning of this and that, and more of the techniques
- used, the lessons learned and the toys exploited. That's at least the motto.
- I hope that the interviews presented fullfill this goal and give you an
- insight on how some people are making their music. This issue contains
- interviews with three very different artists. The first is Team Metlay, a
- true net band with its members all over US as well as a member from the UK.
- Their current release is called "Bandwidth" and is available on CD from
- atomic@netcom.com. The second is a signed act from Washington, DC named
- Chemlab, who has been touring the US off and on for the last year promoting
- their recent release of "Burn out at the Hydrogen Bar". They are one of the
- growing number of signed bands that are accessible on the internet. Their
- email base is chemlink@cyberden.com and they can be found frequenting
- rec.music.industrial. The last interview is with fEEd, an experimental techno
- group using a plethora of analog gear that could make any analogue freak
- jealous. Hopefully there's something interesting for everyone among those
- three. If not, complain and i'll see what i can do next time :)
-
- I hope that in the future, i might be able to draw on more writers for
- material, as well as columns. Aside from gaining material for SC this should
- also adda wider perspective to the material discussed. My personal bias is
- towards the industrial genre and hence i will go after such artists to be
- reviewed. But i don't want to limit SC to just one genre. Please feel free to
- contact me about any material suggestions.
-
- Arne F. Claassen, 9/19/94
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