mit goes analog
in a shocking development (ok, not so shocking, except that some time ago i was informed that mit students don’t “hang out with musicians” - that was more shocking). anyway, in a not-terribly-suprising development, the geeks of mit, home of the media lab, the toy symphony, and other cool innovative approaches to music… bring, to the mit campus, lamp.
they’re getting all kinds of interesting news coverage, but they’ll keep the list on the lamp page more up to date, so go there for what other people are saying.
16 all-music channels. college radio revived and pumped up on techno steroids. in analog. with requests. over the campus cable system. on a shoestring.
with nothing other than a decent infrastructure to work with (campus it and cable) and a few good hacks, the brains of mit have applied a machete to the legal jungle, taken a page from the bad old days of analog, and used the rules of the music business to get what they want.
nicely done.
>>some time ago i was informed that mit students don’t “hang out with musicians”<<
Informed by whom? No one knowledgeable. MIT is home to a great many proficient and qualified musicians. Most unknown to anyone other than their friends, but some very well known (such as Tom Scholz of the rock group Boston).
Whoever came up with the idea that MIT students and musicians are somehow incompatible doesn’t have a clue.
Pete
Comment by pete — October 29, 2003 @ 3:54 am
the full quote: “Certainly you shouldn’t count on our students to know any musicians (hanging out with musicians is not a good way to accumulate the $160,000 cost of a 4-year MIT education and hence few of our students have done it).”
the guilty party shall remain nameless (as clueless). i have no interest in pointing fingers or making personal attacks, but it was a very important lesson in the limits of “smart” people’s vision. domain myopia or something. i’ll have to come up with a better term…
anyway, i knew mit was a great place for music. i was informed otherwise. i was shocked.
Comment by roj — October 29, 2003 @ 4:37 am
>>anyway, i knew mit was a great place for music. i was informed otherwise. i was shocked<<
I guess you have a different definition for “informed” than I do.
Comment by pete — October 29, 2003 @ 10:21 pm
quite possible, but that’s a different thread running through this blog
i was told…
Comment by roj — November 5, 2003 @ 10:01 pm