<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> It took me a long time to fully heavily realize the implications of the concept.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> At first the link didn't open in any browser , after some hand typing , was rewarded with the cheery message from firefox that I was linking to an application it didn't know how to deal with.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> Previous to At first I had rather firmly decided that the challenge must exist inherently in having a number of revolutions in a single minute, perhaps resulting in a dissociative or catatonic state (of being , that is ; not a governed state). I imagined then , or at least attempted to imagine that the resulting audio masterwork should then be expanded or stretched thin enough to cover the better portion of 28 days in february.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> After some careful research (wikipedia) , found that audio cd <FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">players read their discs at a constant 150 kB/s and thus must vary the disc's rotational speed from around 500 r/min (actually 8 Hz), when reading at the innermost edge, to 200 r/min (actually 3.5 Hz) at the outer edge.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;">(Modern ultrasonic </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_drill"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002ABA">dental drills</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> can rotate at up to 800,000 r/min (10 kHz).)</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> I couldn't figure out what National Public Radio had to do with anything , then decided the name could be changed to Machinal Public Radio ( machine public radio ?) the initials which are , of course: RPM spelled backwards , making perfect sense since the listener is retrospecting a psychological moment in a much larger sense for an entire month. An improvement; in my opinion , or at least honest (from a non-existent techno-industrial viewpoint). Michael's Palace might also be a lovely name for a radio program.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> Another idea which wasn't mine; from the <A href="http://www.tapeop.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://www.tapeop.com/</SPAN></FONT></A> message board, was from a guy who planned on recording twenty eight albums during february . He stated that he taught special ed during the day and for that reason his setup , mic positions were going to be quite straightforward. I was thinking he could get his students (special educators) to help with the recordings. What do I know? It's his project , not mine. 'tapeopera' is also a nice magazine title. </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> -hope that I'm not being bothersome</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"> Bill</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.7px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV>On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Michael Palace wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>I also want to mention this project my small town started a few years ago.<BR><BR><A href="">http://www.rpmchallenge.com/</A><BR>basically it is a challenge for people to record an album in the month of <BR>FEB. 10 songs or 35 minutes of music. i did it the first two years, got <BR>some airplay on our National Public Radio Station. I actually did 4 <BR>projects each year (2006, 2007). I skipped 2008. </DIV> <DIV><BR>This year I will likely only do one with a guy I know here in town. It is <BR>open to the world. First year was local and there were 200 bands. The <BR>other years it was open to the world and 800 people completed it. Thought <BR>you all might want to give it a go.<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>