[microsound] New York in the 80's (was Rhys Chatham)

[Jason Wehmhoener]

Spam is definitely a problem, one for which there are multiple potential
solutions.

Yet another subject ripe for edification, no?

(I'm certainly not dismissing the significance or value of bonfires, manhole
covers, or other forms of physicality, I just don't happen to live in a big
city currently)

-Jason

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:

>
> it all gets institutionally-perverted/hacked... there were
> independent early online classrooms
> (http://bbrace.net/education.html) -- see _Athena
> University_ links at bottom (I had an open online studio
> where students could drop-by): it's now been hacked by some
> Istanbul spam-site ;)
>
> from the NY 80's, I remember street bonfires in AlphaVille
> and missing ('recycled') manholecovers
>
> /:b
>
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Jason Wehmhoener wrote:
>
> > Does the classroom need to be physical? So much is possible with
> > free/open-source software these days...
> >
> > -Jason
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Bruce Tovsky <bruce at skeletonhome.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > interesting thought, and somewhat parallels an idea i've been having
> > > lately regarding teaching and the current paradigm of teaching
> > > multimedia at the college level. the more i speak with friends and
> > > associates who teach the more i feel drawn to setting up something
> > > similar to this "microclassroom" idea, though more spun off of a
> > > mentor/apprenticeship model that a teaching model. more about
> > > inspiration and problem solving than an environment of data input and
> > > analysis.
> > > b
> > >
> > > On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Kim Cascone wrote:
> > >
> > > >>> WOW, imagine that!  Having microsound clusters in towns across the
> > > >>> US, each with small production studios!
> > > >
> > > > ah micro-soviets! warms my heart to think of it! :)
> > > > but also an interesting idea -- we should explore this some on the
> > > > list
> > > > anyone have any ideas w/r/t what John is describing?
> > > > I'll write more about it later when I've had some time to think
> > > > about it
> > > > :)
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