Live From the Formosa Tea House

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DATE : Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:38:13 +0100
Entered in Database : 2004-09-08 12:38:13
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Ever since it became possible -- because of high-speed Internet and good audio tools -- to"do radio on the web,"I've been itching to dust off my interest in radio and start recording. Today the dream was realized, with the recording of the first episode ofLive From the Formosa Tea House.UsingAdam Curry's Daily Source Code,Dave Winer's Morning Coffee NotesandThe Gillmor Gangas inspirations,Dan,Stevenand I gathered, as we do two or three times a week anyway, at the Formosa Tea House here in Charlottetown. Except this time we brought audio gear.You can listen to the result, which I've encoded in a variety of ways, using the links here:48kbps MP3 file[29:56 - 5MB]The AAC version will be especially useful if you have an iPod or use iTunes, as, at least in theory, these should"remember where you left off"if you take a break.This isn't a polished radio program -- it's sort of a combination of sticking a microphone on our lunch table, with the extra self-conciousness of the microphone making us each a little stiff. I don't think we knew who we were talkingtoreally -- each other,"the Internet,"or the invisible folks at home.I certainly learned a lot (or at leastremembereda lot) about why radio is so hard to do well, why it's so hard to achieve that balance of the formal and the informal and"sound natural."We'll go back again next week, though, and give it another go. I'm sure Steven and Dan will comment on their blogs about how things went from their perspective.Update: Steven has posted some photos (one,two,three) of our recording rig. We used a boundary mic, which because it was phantom powered, needed to run into a Shure mixing board, the output of which ran into aiMicthat ran into my iBook. I usedSound Studioto record the programme to a 350MB AIFF file, and iTunes to generate the MP3 and the AAC.Another Update: I've set up anRSS 2.0 feed with enclosuresfor the radio programs.Note: location for RSS feed updated May 31, 2005.

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