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a medium ( something you can learn to communicate using Mediapedia ) by bigbrother Sat, 2008-05-03 08:18

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So I finally did something I've been wanting to for a while now. I installed icecast on my gentoo server here at home and started a 'radio' station. It was quite easy to install

emerve -v icecast

I am using a second program called muse to basically feed the audio to icecast to stream.

emerge -v muse

I chose it over the other program ices for feeding audio to icecast because muse will allow MP3 streaming, and only the older versions of ices (which I couldn't get to compile) would do that. Just edit the icecast config (now it's an XML file; bleh, should have used something like YAML) located in /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml and start the app with icecast -C /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml

Start up muse then with muse -C /path/to/playlist.pls -o -e mp3 -b 128 -q 9.0 -c 2 --server localhost -m $stream_name.mp3 -p $passwd

wasn't hard to set up at all but the documentation on both Muse and icecast sucks.

Yamaha PSR-300 midi keyboard

inventory posted by bigbrother Tue, 2008-07-08 17:50
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Given to me. Howev er you can get them used

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MIDI Keyboard

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Slightly used but in great shape

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The PSR-300 is an early 1990s Yamaha digital keyboard. The 100 built in voices are raw and unuseable except for the default piano. However the keyboard has two midi jacks (in and out) and a phono jack (I've got it plugged into my guitar amp for distortion now) and power. Great tool for the price but I wouldnt pay much for it.

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Cries From a Distant Galaxy.

blog posted by bigbrother Tue, 2008-07-08 17:45
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Well very few people here know that I made 'music' these are more ambient tracks. These are produced with and meant to be listened on Headphones. Close your eyes sit back and relax to these tracks.
http://digitalundernet.com/music/criesfromadistantgalaxy.zip
http://www.last.fm/music/cries+from+a+distant+galaxy

Recordings and transmissions from space wrapped around mind altering MKUltra frequencies and drone guitars. Cries from A Distant Galaxy gives you the feeling of floating in a distant nebula, surrounded by some unseen entity.

Interesting facts about this.
I did read a lot about MKUltra and their experiments with audio, what frequencies affect the mind the most. Hence why you need to listen to these on headphones.

Encrypted Transmission is a song that 90% of the audio is made with a childs guitar that I circuit bent.

Enjoy, this demo is Creative Commons, tell me what you think about this.

Here are a few real reviews.

"While closing my eyes, paying attention to my thoughts, and listening to Encrypted Transmission...I had images of Jesus looking like some kind of "spaghetti western" portrayal...playing a child's toy guitar, like Kurt Cobain in a room that was light blue. The paint was peeling off the walls...the room seemed like it belonged in an abandoned house. The room was eerily light by sunlight coming through veil like material..."

"It made my head hurt"

"I like what you're doing with my ears, don't stop. I like it"

"Any chance we can play this on our broadcasts that are being played at the H.O.P.E. (hackers on planet earth) convention in New York? Kevin Mitnick's going to be there - he may well get to hear your stuff!"

Have a listen and keep an open mind.