Yet in covering a few issues from the perspective of more experimental music, I'm afraid I'm going to hold back from an all out endorsement.Īs befits the near naked release, many of the arrangements on the album are minimal. Fortunately for them, the critical reaction has been rather good, with few dissenters.
#Radiohead supercollider live zip#
So an extremely exposed Radiohead are on view, covered only by a 50MB zip file. With so many million home recording musicians around - populating vast territories of MySpace, releasing more tracks each week than spare lifetime is available for listening - comes the realisation that the professionals are not quite so distinct in quality as the marketing machine might lead you to believe. Perhaps there is some hope for a return to live music, where musicians are highly valued as performers, and we tidy away all the concept albums littering our lives. That is, unless we get used to paying nothing for recordings, which as mp3s have proved for years, are curiously intangible fare once you stop worrying about packaging.
Indeed, the expense of marketing is what will most likely keep major players dominant in the music industry. As a number of commentators in press and blog coverage have pointed out in the week since the 10 Oct, they are hardly starting out an unknown band, and found little difficulty in raising public awareness of the release their high profile was built over many years with A&R support. With the online release of In Rainbows, Radiohead have cut straight to the heart of the moral dilemma of downloading, and whilst they might not be the first band to investigate the honour system, they are the most high profile challenge so far to the outdated distribution models of the major record companies. (Originally appeared in a Sonic Arts Network newsletter) If you want to see the program (for SuperCollider, under GNU GPL), it's here
So two 160 kbps mp3 versions here enclosed: I could have posted one remix a minute the cease and desist order never came.
#Radiohead supercollider live download#
I'm placing two outputs of my program here as a free download without DRM (just like their album). Accompanying the review below, I've made a generative remix of Radiohead's 15 step. Nick Collins: Review of Radiohead's In Rainbows
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