Posted by Jowi Taylor on June 27, 2007 at 01:37 PM
I hadn't had any for a while but recently there have been a few comments posted to the blog asking for details on recordings heard during various shows.
This is a reminder that those posts do not go directly to the shows. Sometimes the producers are monitoring the comments particular to their shows but it's not guaranteed that they'll see your query and answer it when you need to know - which is probably "right away".
For that "right away" kind of answer, the best thing to do is to make use of our PLAYLIST feature. It's one of the tabs available at the left side of the screen. Click there and navigate to the show and date you're looking for and you should have no problem finding that precious information.
If that still doesn't tell you what you need to know, click the SHOWS tab and find the show where you heard the music you're asking about. Click on the show and you'll see a CONTACT form where you can ask the question of the people best equipped to answer it.
Posted by Jowi Taylor on April 25, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Many Mac users have been writing into the comments section - especially for the Concerts On Demand panel - pointing out that they had been left out of this great new CBC content feature. I know, because I'm one of them.
Now, I was lucky because, for me, Concerts On Demand also meant I could go into various studios or offices or send emails or phone messages to certain producers and simply "demand" to hear a particular concert (though asking nicely usually worked better). Well, those producers can now come out from under their desks and Mac users at home can now click away. While a few bugs remain to be worked out - for the most part, the Listen Live streams and Concerts On Demand offerings are now working for most Macs. I'm using an Intel Chip Mac but others around the CBC using PowerPC Macs have now experienced the joy of the Rheostatics live at Massey Hall via their computers so let's raise an Apple to celebrate.
Listen away.
Posted by Jowi Taylor on April 10, 2007 at 01:20 PM
Some very interesting and well-written comments to some recent posts - including Piano Lessons, Some Other Easter Traditions and Fear of Bass.
I'm sort of surprised not to have had any offers to explain Winnipeg or heard any outrage over my enthusiasm for the 2008 Paris opera season, but that's fine. I'm just glad to see some conversations going on without me in the comments.
By now, most people have realized I'm not going to post off-topic comments and that the best place for comments on changes to RadioTwo that are more general in nature is to the Tell Us What You Think link to the left.
And as for all you Age of Persuasion fans out there, I suggest you follow up with Terry O'Reilly yourself on his Age of Persuasion blog.
Posted by Jowi Taylor on March 22, 2007 at 05:54 PM
Brian Eno's first foray into ambient music in 1978 gave a bit of a wink to Eric Satie's "Furniture Music" - updated to fit the idea into a quintessentially 20th century space. "Music For Airports" is one of my favourite pieces of music. But I've always wondered why they don't actually play it in airports.
If you're moving between terminals at Chicago's O'Hare airport, there's a light sculpture that runs the length of the pedestrian tunnel and it's accompanied by some Eno-esque ambient music - but it's a bit too gimmicky for my taste and they play it too loud for it to blend into the bustle of the pedestrian traffic and golf carts.
Continue reading "Music for Airports?" »
Posted by Jowi Taylor on March 21, 2007 at 01:49 PM
We've had a few questions about the operation of the site and issues around dial-up and DSL.
The Listen Live panel - there to the right at the top of the column where you can select from any of the live audio streams coming from CBC Master Controls across the country - offers you a choice of LOW or HIGH. LOW or HIGH what? Well, really it comes down to bandwidth and sound quality.
If you're on a dial-up connection (geez, it seems I only hear modems anymore at direct debit terminals in some stores), you'll want to choose the LOW option. There's a thinner pipe at your end of the equation so to get the sound into your computer at a decent rate you'll have to opt for the lower-resolution of audio information.
If you're on a High Speed DSL or Cable connection to the internet, you can go ahead and select the HIGH option. In fact, one the finishing touches are put on the system, you'll be able to opt for even higher sound quality.
ALL of the Concert On Demand streams are for the HIGH option so keep that in mind.
Happy listening.
Posted by Jowi Taylor on March 20, 2007 at 05:29 PM
I am no longer embarrassed.
It used to be that when you went online to find out what exactly what piece of music you were listening to at a particular time, it showed up in a web form bravely cobbled together by some hardworking web-types around here who were given several proverbial sow's ears and told to make a designer collection of silk purses. I apologized then for what listeners might have to sift through to get the info they were after but no longer!
Look at the column on the left side of this page and you'll see a heading PLAYLISTS. Click there.
It will launch a selection page that lets you choose the show and the date you're interested in. If you just click the show directly it'll give you the latest info.... which is how I know that the pieces in the Steve Reich portion of tonight's edition of Canada Live with Matt Galloway will be "Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ", "Electric Counterpoint" (an awesome piece and source for the Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds") and "Sextet".
Cool.
In so many ways.
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