Comments on: The Tone Generation - Odeo frustrations http://www.simonsound.co.uk/65/the-tone-generation-odeo-frustrations.htm music and sound for tv, film and radio Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:52:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Ken Roll http://www.simonsound.co.uk/65/the-tone-generation-odeo-frustrations.htm#comment-155 Ken Roll Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:28:28 +0000 http://www.simonsound.co.uk/65/the-tone-generation-odeo-frustrations.htm#comment-155 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. 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.

]]> By: Eric Rupert http://www.simonsound.co.uk/65/the-tone-generation-odeo-frustrations.htm#comment-154 Eric Rupert Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:47:30 +0000 http://www.simonsound.co.uk/65/the-tone-generation-odeo-frustrations.htm#comment-154 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 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

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