As we prepare for the broadcast of the final Tone Generation episode on Resonance FM tomorrow at 19.30 GMT I am still unable to upload show 9 and it looks like I am going to have problems getting the final show available for online listeners. Odeo are still having technical problems and not offering any kind of explanation as to why. If anyone does know whats going on please feel free to let me know.
The end of the series has been a bit bumpy on the scheduling side with Resonance broadcasting the wrong show and then celebrating their birthday and changing their Friday evening line up. This means that there has been a 2 week gap in new shows being available and the Odeo technical problem is only going to increase the wait for online listeners.
Please hang in there as the last two shows are well worth checking out. We will probably take a little break once the series is over and then come back with something in the Autumn. In the meantime shows 1 through 8 are available here.
UPDATE - I have now had a chance to speak with Eric at Odeo. He explained that they are currently migrating all of their shows to a new system and this has caused the problems that have stopped us getting the final shows online. I had expected it to be sorted by now but I’m sad to say I still can’t get shows 9 and 10 online. Also apologies to podcast subscribers who have had duplicate shows downloaded. I imagine this was caused by Odeo’s migration procedure.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
He readers of Simonsound, Eric from Odeo here. We are still working on migrating the old user data and the two most popular Studio functions over to the new site. We had anticipated just running the Studio in it’s old form for several weeks until the new features were ready, but we lost the ability to create new episodes. We have maintained support for hundreds of thousands of existing episodes but have lost the ability to create new ones. We expect to have this functionality restored in just a couple more days. The “producer tools” will be integrated into the channel page of the new site and the Studio product will be retired. Again sorry for the delay, we have a library of over 4M MP3’s to support and maintainingh that support was challenging enough. Any urgent matters, please contact me directly. eric at odeo dot com
June 27th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Regardless of the Odeo problems, this show is well worth the wait. Anyone who has an interest in electronic music and/or its history owes it to oneself to check out every episode of this terrific series. I personally have downloaded and repeatedly listened to every episode available, and every time I have done so, I have learned something new and added much to my knowledge and understanding of the evolution of electronic music.
Everything from the earliest technically simplistic (though still musically elaborate and elegant) attempts to creations spawned from mammoth machines of the later analog era is all here. And the fact that the series is divided into geographical episodes likewise displays the cultural influences stemming from availability of resources as well as the social and political influences upon the style of the musicians covered. Ian Helliwell’s collaboration with Simon James has created an historical time capsule of electronic music that educates the listener, and the the music presented is itself a joy to hear in its own right. And Ian delivers it with a refreshing presentation strewn with wit.
If you haven’t done so yet, download the available episodes and absorb and enjoy them until the last two are made available. If you are a fan of electronic music with or without an interest in its history, you will be glad that you stuck it out. And let us hope that some time soon we will be able to enjoy yet another collaboration of these two very talented individuals.