EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 67, Issue 07 This issue's topics: The World Wide Web WWW (6 messages) WWW Links to Music Festivals? WWW site back online - new address WWW: CMJ (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 11:38:53 +1000 From: Simon Bereux Subject: WWW i Return-Receipt-To: konk@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 182 Could someone explain what the WWW Emusic world wide music net thing that has a new address as recently advised, what it is as compared to this list and the address again please.... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 08:44:06 -0700 From: Nate Waddoups Subject: Re: WWW On Wed, 17 Aug 1994, Joe McMahon wrote: > >Could someone explain what the WWW Emusic world wide music net thing that has a > >new address as recently advised, what it is as compared to this list and the > >address again please.... > > To access it, you need (at least right now) to have a direct Internet > connection or a SLIP or PPP dial-up connection to the Internet. This sounds slightly misleading - if you have only a shell account and a modem, you can still use the Web. The browser I used was lynx. You get a text-only view, of course, but it's still pretty useful. In fact, it's probably somewhat faster, since the pictures don't need to be transferred. Generally, you can select and download pictures and sound files if you want to check them out, but you will of course need extra software for the viewers/players/whatever. On the other hand, doing it with Mosaic is a lot more engaging. In fact, it was in conjunction with Mosaic that I first heard the term "console potato." +-------------------+------------------------------------------------------- | natew@halcyon.com | You write Windows code? Mac code? OS/2 PM code? +-------------------+ Want a great job in the pacific northwest? Send me email, we'll talk... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 11:30:25 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: WWW >Could someone explain what the WWW Emusic world wide music net thing that has a >new address as recently advised, what it is as compared to this list and the >address again please.... Surely. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It essentially lets you set up a hypertext database containing whatever you like and make it publicly accessible all over the Internet. To access it, you need (at least right now) to have a direct Internet connection or a SLIP or PPP dial-up connection to the Internet. There are several browsers for the WWW, but the one which has gotten the most press (and which is most popular) is called Mosaic. Mosaic allows you to access text, sound, still pictures, and video directly, without having to first download them then run another program manually to view or listen to them. The EMUSIC-L WWW site contains all of the back issues of the EMUSIC-D Digest, accessible through hypertext indices, and a number of other interesting and useful things, such as equipment reviews and essays extracted from EMUSIC-L. --- Joe M. -- "First up, it's John Tesh, with 'Whispering Firestorm', followed by Yanni and his 'Snoremaster of Tralfamadore.'" (MST3K - "Pod People") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 12:58:32 -0400 From: "Jeffrey D. Schultz" Subject: Re: WWW Okay, I just ftp'd Mosaic, but have never used it or the WWW. Is there an address that I need for the EMUSIC-L site...ie, a URL or HTTP? Do I need some file full of addresses to do searches? Thanks - Jeff Schultz >Surely. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. It >essentially lets you set up a hypertext database containing whatever you >like and make it publicly accessible all over the Internet. > >To access it, you need (at least right now) to have a direct Internet >connection or a SLIP or PPP dial-up connection to the Internet. There are >several browsers for the WWW, but the one which has gotten the most press >(and which is most popular) is called Mosaic. Mosaic allows you to access >text, sound, still pictures, and video directly, without having to first >download them then run another program manually to view or listen to them. > >The EMUSIC-L WWW site contains all of the back issues of the EMUSIC-D >Digest, accessible through hypertext indices, and a number of other >interesting and useful things, such as equipment reviews and essays >extracted from EMUSIC-L. > > --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 12:11:36 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: WWW Nate writes: >This sounds slightly misleading - if you have only a shell account and a >modem, you can still use the Web. The browser I used was lynx. You get >a text-only view, of course, but it's still pretty useful. In fact, it's >probably somewhat faster, since the pictures don't need to be transferred. Nate is right, of course. I don't know why I keep forgetting about Lynx, especially since I installed it here... Lynx would be perfectly fine for checking out the EMUSIC-L pages, as they are all text. --- Joe M. -- "First up, it's John Tesh, with 'Whispering Firestorm', followed by Yanni and his 'Snoremaster of Tralfamadore.'" (MST3K - "Pod People") ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 17:06:40 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: WWW >Okay, I just ftp'd Mosaic, but have never used it or the WWW. Is there >an address that I need for the EMUSIC-L site...ie, a URL or HTTP? Do >I need some file full of addresses to do searches? I'll answer this briefly, since we don't want EMUSIC-L to become Mosaic Tutorial Central... Most versions of Mosaic let you jump to a specific URL. Once you've gotten there, the URL can be added to your "hotlist" so you can jump straight to it. Get to the dialog that allows you to jump to a URL, and enter "http://sunsite.unc.edu/mcmahon/emusic-l/welcome.html" (no quotes, of course). This will jump ypu to the home page for EMUSIC-L. You can then do whatever is apropriate for your version of Mosaic to add it to your hotlist; you now can explore around the archives, and then come back here again next session. Further questions should be directed straight to me. --- Joe M. -- "First up, it's John Tesh, with 'Whispering Firestorm', followed by Yanni and his 'Snoremaster of Tralfamadore.'" (MST3K - "Pod People") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 10:46:31 +0200 From: Michel Fingerhut Subject: [Q] WWW Links to Music Festivals? Hello, Our WWW server (http://www.ircam.fr/ircam-e.html) has a link to the Salzburg Festival page (which was just announced) in our Concert Tour page. I would be interested in links to the Edinburgh, Berlin, Vienna and Firenze (Maggio Musicale) Festivals info servers, if they have one (and others as well). If anyone has information about such pages, could you please email them to me, I'll summarize? Thanks, Michael Fingerhut ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:35:53 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: WWW site back online - new address The EMUSIC-L World Wide Web site has returned. Thanks to the folks at sunsite.unc.edu (in particular, David McConville), the WWW site has a new home. The URL to reach it is: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mcmahon/emusic-l/index.html I'm still getting everything reorganized, but the back issues are all there, as are the reviews and extracted "useful documents". Please let me know if there are problems accessing things from the EMUSIC-L pages. --- Joe M. -- "Sounds like John Cage is hiding in the shadows over there." (MST3K - "Being from Another Planet") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 16:35:03 BST From: Andy Farnell Subject: Re: CMJ WWW > I'm going to check the CMJ WWW site later today, but here's another thought > --- Joe M. Joe, I didn't know CMJ had a WWW service. Where? How? etc? cheers andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Farnell, Music Technology Research Computing and Cognition Dept. Applied Computing & Electronics # # BOURNEMOUTH Bournemouth University # UNIVERSITY Janet: afarnell@uk.ac.bmth World: afarnell@bournemouth.ac.uk Voice: (0202) 595257 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 12:47:35 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: CMJ WWW Andy Farnell asks: >I didn't know CMJ had a WWW service. Where? How? etc? The URLs are at file://mitpress.mit.edu:/pub/Computer-Music-Journal/CMJ.html and file://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Publications/cmj/CMJ.html. The site is not as complete as I'd like; I'd like to see an arrangement similar to the manner I had used in organizing the back issues of the EMUSIC-L Digest. That is, provide an index or contents page with links to either the articles (probably a problem, copyright-wise) or abstracts. I haven't finished crawling around in it, but this doesn't seem to be the case. It would be great to be able to point people to a URL which would let them read the original automata synthesis article themselves... Still, among other things, the discography of recommended computer music CDs is there, and that's certainly worth reading. (Jeff Harrington, where are you now? :-) ) --- Joe M. -- "Somebody's got his finger on a DX7." (MST3K - "Being from Another Planet") ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************