tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193263702012-01-30T11:25:59.598-08:00<img src="http://fireroad.outqwest.net/images/TRJH-Logo.png" width="191" height="105" align="center"><br><br> The Record Jacket Historian is about Music, copyright and technology<br> Logo © David Fedoruk December 2005recordjackethistorianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06431571179485586897noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19326370.post-85142152468032760592011-01-21T18:56:00.000-08:002011-01-21T18:56:02.508-08:00

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As new venues become more and more scarce, and as their importance keeps being diminished, more and more concert venues are make-shift and make-do arrangements with halls that already exist. As well, where some instruments become rare or even none existent, electronic representations or recordings of those instruments become more common. P {

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If you haven't noticed, my posts are signed by "snapped synapses". This is a problem when you have multiple blogs with bogger, they are all signed by the same entity. I find this unacceptable. The folks at google help desk seem somewhat blasee about the whole affiar. The two blogs are on different subjects entiredly and were meant to be used for different purposes.I have been looking at other

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I was writing an entry for another blog post when I needed a biographical link for Ivan Moravec. Instead of the article I expected, I found that it had been toasted, pulled down by someone who obviously (and admitted it) knew nothing of Ivan Moravec. I thought it was a rather hasty and rash on his part seeing as he admitted that he didn't know who he was. It was obviousy written by a fan!But, I

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It happened accidentally, but I had considered it for a while. I have found that certain issues cloud what The Record Jacket Historian was meant to be. I considered transferring some things to a new blog and just talking about recorded music I've listened to or ma currently interested in.I was looking through Google's new acquisition, "Writely" and wandered into eBlogger Beta. I attempted to

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Have you ever been searching for something and the search engines just never quite manage to find what you're looking for? Sometimes someone else's set of prize bookmarks can help. Check out Music-Collections .... You'll find everything from bluegrass to ethnomusicology!That is a page I will be visting often to find new reading material about music. It is so easy to get stuck in a rut and simply

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I see by The Recording Industry vs. the People blog that some of the defendants are asking the RIAA to justify the request for damages in the amount of $750.00 per track the defendants are alleged to have downloaded. I knew that the Recording Industry was wanting and increase in what iTunes charged for downloaded music but REALLY this is ridiculous! If you think I'm jesting, you're only partially

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This headline, "Phillips attempts to Patent Advertisment Enforcement" at CDR Zone alerted me to this story. It immediately invoked a feeling of shock, horror and deja vu!Remember the Twilight Zone? Not the new ones, the old ones in black and white. The first series was a stunning success and even in black & White audiences were riveted! The voice at the beginning saying "Do not adjust your set,

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The cat is out of the bag! SCO has finaly spilled the beans on what its now three year long litigation against IBM is all about! They even have a real Unix expert in Max Rockind.The danger in becoming a recognized expert in one area of study is that one (of necessity) neglects other areas. Perhaps Mr. Rochkind should have done more interdisciplanary studies instead of concentrating so heavily in

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Talk about biting the hand that feeds you; me thinks France is an expert at it! France's trade Minister Christine Lagarde is quoted by Yahoo as saying:"Any time a company restricts competition in a market, it gets the attentioof regulating agencies. We have to play by the rules of the game," she said." Apple? Restricting competition? I think the French have forgotten who created that market. If

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Following in the footsteps of Nettwerk Records, major Canadian Independent recording lables have broken with the CRIA. This news rocked the Canadian Recording Industry today with reports on Howard Knopf's blog Excessive Copyright article "CRIA - What Lies Ahead?" and and Michael Geist in "Removing the C from CRIA" and the CBC,'s Arts & Entertainment article "Indie labels break with CRIA".

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Please note: This has been reposted, and moderation turned back on due to spam!For a while now there has been rumblings of dissatisfaction with Digital Restrictions (officially its Rights) Management. The loudest objections seem to have come from the open source community, but that may be only becuase I am listeing closet there. However, this site, I Hate DRM finaly puts a point on it for the

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INDUSTRIAL::MUSIC::LIBRARYThere is a West Coast Canadian Connection with this music, one which has never quite been acknowledged in more propper music circles. Almost the exact opposite of the Seattle grunge scene, in which there was really no scene at all, all the so called scene was generated by one band. This one has a small core of muscians and no "scene" in its own city or country, but fame

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This interesting note I found on the Digital Music Web Log. It seems RadioHead is contemplating "Digital Only " releases. From what I gather hat means no packaging, cover art, liner notes at all. This is the kind of music business B.S. that drives me nearly over the edge into insanity. Cover art has been a mainstay of the industry for years. For bands, it means visibility and recognition. I

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Over the next while I will be going systematically through what we call the "Music business" and decoding all the fictions, falsehoods and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) used in the industry to confuse and burr the lines where ever convenient. This is an easy project to start but a daunting one to complete because this has happened at almost every level. Nowhere is this absent.Don't anyone

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It is not the first time I have commented on this case because of the glaring technical falsehoods perpetrated by the RIAA, things that they proclaim as fact which can be shown not to be so. This is yet another one. In their affidavit "Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law In Opposition to Motion" they write about "perfect digital copies". I submit that the files in question in this case are not as they

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There are some pieces of music which I seem never to be finished with. The Schubert Sonata in B flat Deutsche 960 is one of them. I happened upon one of my many recordings of this work last week sometime and it set off a round of who plays what which way.It is Sviatoslav Richter's playing in this case stands out. He may be the greatest Schubert interperter of all time. That isn't to say that

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I was alerted to this article which appeared in the Vancouver Sun recently, at Canada.com by reading Michael Geist's most excelent Blog. This Blog stands with Pamela Jones Groklaw as probably the best Blogs in the blogosphere.Aparently Canadians are not buying enough music online, therefore we must be stealling it! or so says Graham Henderson of the Canadian Recording Industry Assosciation.So

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Chink in the armour indeed! But is this only wishful thinking? its possible, however, I hope for the best.For a long time I have known that there is an underlying problem in the upper echalons of the businesss world. It is that they are completely disconnected with the advances in technology. They are not technophobes by any means. Their power and positions have enabled them to simply bypass it.

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Recenetly, Sterophile Magazine reported this: Lay off the DRM!February 26, 2006 — Speaking at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles on February 23, Yahoo Music's general manager Dave Goldberg startled listeners with a statement probably never previously heard from the head of a for-pay digital music service:"DRM is not a consumer value proposition, it’s a consumer cost," said Goldberg. "It

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Preface:These stoies are ones I lived through, I am documentiing it now from memory. They are also a view from the bottom rung of the industry in a medium sized, very wet city on the Pacific coast of North America. So some of these time lines may not be exactly right but they are as nearly as I can remember them. If you have information or more detail about any of these facts, please let me know.

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I had not intended to address this issue until later, however things have progressed to the point where I believe it necessary that everyone's voice must be heard. Further that everyone who is capable should be shouting in descent.Why is this coming now? Google Videos are now available. Most of the content is now public domain, but if you get it from Google, you will be subject to their terms of

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I am saddened to note, one of my Favourite Wagnerian Sopranos, Birgit Nillson died on December 25, 2005. The BBC noted her passing on Thursday, adding that there had been no illness reported and the the funeral had taken place (the previous day) Wednesday in her home town,Vastra Karup, southern Sweden.Nilsson made her stage debut in 1946 at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Her Metropolitan Opera

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Canadian blogster and Proffessor of Law in Ottawa, Michael Geist writes that there are two new Canadian Lawsuits in the Sony rootkit Scandle first reported on Mark Russinovich's blog on October 31, 2005. This one's just not going away for Sony. If you're worried that you might have this root kit or any other Windows root kit, SysInternals has created a RootKitRevealer. This is well worth

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The front page of Michael Geist's web page makes for some interesting reading. It seems that our friends from south of the boarder in Holly wood South having been contributing campaign funds to certain Canadian politicians. I wonder if this has anything to do with the upcoming review of Canada's copyright laws?He is asking all politicians in this election to take the following pledge:No Member

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A few weeks ago Steve Jobs made this comment to the press (I'll quote from one of my favourite sites, Ars Technica Ken "Ceasar" Fisher's blog at ars technica Jobs calls music industry greedyIf they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy," said Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs. "If the price goes up, they (consumers) will go back to piracy and everybody loses." He added, "Theft is

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On my way to make coffee I stopped to find some music to listen to while drinking my usual morning cup of coffee. Not sure of what I wanted to hear, i flipped through some stray CD's I hadn't listened to in a long while. This one popped out. Sir John Barbirolli conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra on a double CD from EMI. Two works, the Richard Strauss Metemorphosis for 23 solo Strings and

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I've spent the last few days doing one of the things I do best. I started to look for a specific recording by Sviatoslav Richter, and got an arm full of CD's. They're all Richter recordings I had forgotten I had. Apparently, I am quite a collector of Richter recordings.I did find the recording, the Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat D. 960, but just not the one I intended. Listening to it (and the

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I do not really know what Haydn had in mind when he penned the opening bars of this Symphony, but to me it has always sounded like that first long stretch in the morning -- I mean the first one that feels good. Haydn's Symphony No. 84 "Oxford" was written for an event at Oxford University on the occasion of his recieving an honorary Doctor of Music Degree. And what a way to remember it. The name

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It didn't happen until this morning, at 8 AM PST I called Internet Billing and they confirmed that y account had been unblocked. Well, only 5 days without any Internet save a small amount of dialup. We'll see if the payment deduction from my account goes as smoothly as it should.I really do want to like my ISP, Telus, even more since they are a local comapany merged with another local company

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I'm back! Only barely... I started this blog because I wanted to talk about two things dear to my heart. I do love both music and the Internet, bitching and complaining was not the purpose but sometimes you are pushed to the limit and you use your blog to document some of the worst ways in which consumers and customers are treated. Here is my account of the saga of changing the bank from which

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The List of affected CD's is here. Notice Number 22 on the Canadian list is the recording of the Canadian Idol winning Contstants. While I basically do not like the kind of degrading cattle call that is programs lke Canadian and American Idol, I still and one Hundred percent behind the artists that go for the gold! It is utterly disgustring that Sony should put their scumware into this first

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I just ran across this artile by Don Henley of the Eagles called Killing The Music. He seems to have hit the nail right on the head as far as the music business is concerned. This article was first published in The Washington Post

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Music retail is not the easiest of retail markets to work in. You are expected to know everything and you are paid next to nothing to know it. You work hard, and long hours. To many this looks like one of those glam jobs, one with lots of perks and something anyone can do. Not so. The perks are few and far between and not nearly what they were. The good years of perks were gone even before I

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I was going to do a comparrson of Stephen Kovacevich's Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 agianst one of the truly great pianists, Sviatoslav Richter, but after listening to both performances I thought that perhaps the Richter recording had enough unique features that it shoulld be conisders by itself. By unique features I don't mean Richter's playing I mean the abysmall sound of many of his recording.

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I had not wanted to begin this blog on such a discordant note, however, current events in the business I have followed and worked in for many years have forced this issue. Sony/BMG has effectively attacked its own customers. Not the ones downloading music the RIAA claim as their Intellectual Property, but the customers who enter a retail outlet and purchase the product.I can do not believe for

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I didn't leave the dental appointment today (November 22, 2005) 'til 5:30 PM and Stephen Kovacevic's master class was to begin at 7PM. No time to run home, just straight from UBC campus to the Vancouver Academy of Music. Of course I was far to early, but I would have been late had I tried to get home and back in time.Odd, how I imagined that there would be line-ups to see such a major figure in

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