From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #11 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, January 14 1998 Volume 03 : Number 011 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Hello ...ooo...oooo.......... [Beth Meyer ] Alloy: Welcome! ["Mary A. Brown" ] Alloy: Hello ...ooo...oo ["Mary A. Brown" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:43:24 -0500 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Re: Alloy: Hello ...ooo...oooo.......... Hi, folks >IT Admin - Govt Office North West wrote: >> >> Hey, where'd everybody go? What's up with everyone? Post Festive >> Season >> Depression? Since it was getting a little quiet again, I thought I'd mention that my relative quietness earlier was due to being horribly sick and mostly flat on my back for a full week, and then terribly depressed as I got back to work. (Losing a week when you are trying to finish your dissertation can do that to you!) Actually, I still have this rather icky-sounding cough -- 13 days after it started -- but am otherwise happy and functional now. (Thanks to everyone who sent get-well wishes, by the way!) Life is good, after all. I'm back to making progress, I still find the work interesting, today is my husband's and my 8th anniversary (woo-hoo! Party!), and there is great music out there to listen to! What more could I ask? (Well, OK, other than to finally stop coughing at some point in 1998... :-) ) A belated happy new year, Beth P.S. -- Say, do you think my lost week got scooped up by Thomas' time-traveling TREE system? If so, my husband's Quake-playing habit has probably been a major fuel source for them.... ;-) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beth Meyer School of Psychology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Georgia Institute of Technology FAX: +1-404-894-8905 274 5th St. gt9020a@prism.gatech.edu -or- Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 bmeyer@psy.psych.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:25:58 EST From: RThurF Subject: Alloy:Top Web Tools Embrace the Sound of 'Beatnik' Headspace News!!! Courtesy of AOL Robin << Top Web Tools Embrace the Sound of 'Beatnik' Easy Ways for Web Authors to Add Headspace's Interactive Music Technology To Their Pages SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Headspace(R) Inc., a provider of next-generation technology for Internet audio, announced today that Macromedia Dreamweaver, NetObjects Fusion, and RandomNoise Coda have each added support for Headspace's Beatnik(TM) technology in their popular Web site authoring tools. Beatnik provides very high audio quality with minimal download times. It enables sound effects and high-fidelity stereo music files to be woven into a Web page, resulting in a more compelling and personalized user experience. Beatnik's inclusion in high-level HTML authoring tool packages now makes these interactive features available to hundreds of thousands of Web page designers via an approachable drag and drop interface. "Headspace has created the highest sound quality and most efficient music format for the Web," said Mike Goos, product manager for NetObjects Fusion. "To satisfy the growing need to 'sonify' web sites, we partnered with Headspace to introduce the Beatnik Component for NetObjects Fusion 2.0.2. which makes it easy to add Headspace Beatnik sound to NetObjects Fusion pages." Beatnik is unlike familiar Internet streaming audio technologies (such as RealAudio) because rather than send rigid sound files, it plays arrays of tiny 'packets' of audio via a real-time software synthesizer. These sound packets can be located anywhere on the Net and then reconstituted on the client machine as the user browses a Web page, resulting in flowing, high-fidelity music that responds directly to the user's input. Beatnik files also include 40-bit encrypted copyright information, giving increased protection to composers and music publishers. Since its debut last Spring, Beatnik has been popular with Web design houses and interactive advertising agencies, due to the unique ability it gives them to leverage corporate 'jingles' on to the Web, reinforcing brand identity and creating a more compelling experience. Young and Rubicam's interactive division recently reported a 60% increase in traffic to 7Up's Web site following 'sonification' with Beatnik. Analysts also noted that Headspace's audio technology will achieve a high degree of ubiquity following the release of Java 1.2 later this year. Sun Microsystems licensed Headspace's code in 1997 to be the core sound driver in Java. Once applications such as Netscape Communicator become Java 1.2 compliant, millions of Java-enabled desktops will support Beatnik-compatible files directly, doing away with the need for a plug-in. In the meantime, Netscape is shipping Headspace's Beatnik Plug-in (available for free download at http://www.headspace.com) with its Communicator 4.0 product line, giving users an early taste of what's to come as interactive sound continues to permeate the Web in 1998. Microsoft Internet Explorer users can experience the same audio quality using Headspace's recently-announced Beatnik ActiveX control. Both the Beatnik Plug-in and the Beatnik ActiveX control play RMF files, and content created in this format will be fully compatible with the sound engine in Java 1.2. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:38:38 EST From: RThurF Subject: Alloy: Hello ..ooo Beth In a message dated 98-01-13 17:58:07 EST, Beth wrote: << Actually, I still have this rather icky-sounding cough -- 13 days after it started -- but am otherwise happy and functional now. (Thanks to everyone who sent get-well wishes, by the way!) Life is good, after all. I'm back to making progress, I still find the work interesting, today is my husband's and my 8th anniversary (woo-hoo! Party!), and there is great music out there to listen to! What more could I ask? (Well, OK, other than to finally stop coughing at some point in 1998... :-) ) Beth, I'm sorry to hear that you were ill (I hadn't known)!! Has your doctor given you anything for your cough? Has it shown improvement at least over the last 13 days, hopefully? Glad you're feeling better in spite of it! Keep your feet up & keep drinking that good ol' herbal tea...or if you're like me, green Gatorade (yum!) Congratulations on your ANNIVERSARY!!! You have now entered the year of Bronze and Pottery. Robin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:25:02 -0500 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Welcome! Oh, gee, while I'm at it here... I want to belatedly extend a warm Bienvenue to Jean-Dominique and to say,= Please, kind sir, would you enlighten us as to what Marie is briefly sayi= ng on The Valley to the Mind's Eye? And if you are familiar with Therapy/Growth, you would solve a 15 year old mystery if you would please= translate the phrase spoken as a mantra. Europa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:25:00 -0500 From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Alloy: Hello ...ooo...oo Hello All(oy), To respond to Slarvi, I'm experiencing just the opposite of post-holiday = depression meself! I had a Dolby-filled season which actually started wi= th = my birthday when Stephen ever so kindly framed my personally autographed = AAMB = poster with his own two hands. For Xmas, he framed one of my portrait posters and somehow managed to find vinyl copies of AAMB, the Hot Sauce 1= 2", = and, something I had never seen, the LP version of Astronauts and Heretic= s. = But my biggest gift is tangentally Dolby related. Stephen bought me an = incredible, top-of-the-line-for-a-professional (which, of course, I am = not!) keyboard which will no doubt make its appearance on "The Flat Earth= ". = I'm not ambitious or talented enough to try and tackle a cover on my own.= = Slarvi, I certainly hope you ended up having lovely holidays after your = miserable work crunch. This was the first year for me in ages that I had= the = Christmas spirit so I had a lot of empathy for you, remembering the past = and = contrasting it with the present enjoyment of the season. = Now, for the real Dolby content...there's been a question that's been = unanswered for years that I have. Just what does the following line from= = "Urges" mean: "Seven inches of a black star liner"? I had always just figured it was something sexual considering the rest of= the = lyrics but the other day I saw there was a dj or rapper who called himsel= f = "Black Star Liner" and thought perhaps there was a more interesting = interpretation. Or maybe it's the evil twin of the company which made th= e = Titanic... Europa ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #11 **************************