The choirs in the movie are bits and pieces from both Lux Aeterna and Requiem. Excellent music, and if you like your choir pieces truly disturbing and haunting I would also recommend Penderecki's "Entombment Of Christ".
If you find FruityLoops overwhelmingly complex, never ever try Cubase or, worse yet, Logic Audio.
I Find Fruityloops to be very easy to understand in fact, so it's what I use all the time. It's not quite professional grade just yet though, but it's getting there rapidly. I have yet to come up with an idea that I find myself unable to execute in fruityloops. Even crazy stuff like seamless fading between triplets and regular 4/4 can be done quite easily, and still it's more like a music toy than a professional production tool.
The tax on recordable media is measured per MegaByte and indeed ridicilous. I'm pretty sure it will be greatly decreased from the current suggestion, but it will probably at least be a pax put in place, which is bad enough. Why? Well seeing as the tax is supposedly put in place to help feed some money back to copyright holders, we have a peculiar moral dilemma; Is it allright to illegally copy, say, a movie from a friend to a blank DVD? After all, the copyright holders still get some money through the tax on the recordable media! They're sending a pretty diffuse message there.
Second, P2P software will not be outlawed. Early articles on this proposal were all based on the same telegram, written by a guy who clearly had misunderstood a few things. Several of the more serious news sources later posted corrections to that statement. A ban on P2P software would ofcourse be impossible, seeing as the same technology is used for a lot of very legitimite purposes.
A crack on the other hand, which only purpose is to circumvent copy protection, will be made illegal as I understand it. This creates another conflict, as the law still states that one is allowed to make a limited number of backup copies of legally purchased media. But what if the only way to make a copy is to circumvent copy protection? We'll see DeCSS all over again, just on the other side of the atlantic.
I have yet to read this suggestion entirely, but from other comemnts I also gather that there are hints at diminishing ISPs status as a common carrier, which would be the truly disastrous part of all this.
However, have in mind that this is just a suggestion and it will go though several revisions after being examined by various expert groups. I hope and believe this is not as bad as it looks.
I got a fairly well paid job about the same time MP3s got widespread so it's a bit difficult to tell what affected my record-buying habit the most, but since then I've bought about one record every day. Yes, one every day. A lot of them are singles (as I'm an amateur DJ), but still.
If all these people who used to buy 4 CDs every month now only buy 2 or 3, I and people like me are likely to make up for it. And I know my record consumption habit is far from unique.
However, I buy less and less mainstream music. Apart from my manic collecting of a certain icelandic singer (who occationally puts MP3s of her own, sometimes unreleased, tracks online), pretty much everything I buy is stuff that sells 2000 copies worldwide, at the most. And RIAA isn't seeing any of that money, so no wonder they're pissed. They'd like everyone to buy N'Sync and Celine Dion CDs, and not obscure electronica released exclusively on vinyl. Before the WWW boom I hadn't heard of many of the bands I enjoy today, so while I wasn't exactly big on boy bands the big RIAA labels still got to see a little more of my money.
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Get the whole original piece, it's even darker. I guess there are numerous recordings and publications of this, but these are the ones I have:
Gyorgy Ligeti - Chamber Concerto, Ramifications, String Quartet No. 2, Aventures, Lux Aeterna (Deutche Grammophon 423 244-2)
Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem, Aventures, Novelle Aventures (Wergo WER 60 0645-50)
The choirs in the movie are bits and pieces from both Lux Aeterna and Requiem. Excellent music, and if you like your choir pieces truly disturbing and haunting I would also recommend Penderecki's "Entombment Of Christ".
this is pretty OT here, but here goes:
If you find FruityLoops overwhelmingly complex, never ever try Cubase or, worse yet, Logic Audio.
I Find Fruityloops to be very easy to understand in fact, so it's what I use all the time. It's not quite professional grade just yet though, but it's getting there rapidly. I have yet to come up with an idea that I find myself unable to execute in fruityloops. Even crazy stuff like seamless fading between triplets and regular 4/4 can be done quite easily, and still it's more like a music toy than a professional production tool.
The tax on recordable media is measured per MegaByte and indeed ridicilous. I'm pretty sure it will be greatly decreased from the current suggestion, but it will probably at least be a pax put in place, which is bad enough. Why? Well seeing as the tax is supposedly put in place to help feed some money back to copyright holders, we have a peculiar moral dilemma; Is it allright to illegally copy, say, a movie from a friend to a blank DVD? After all, the copyright holders still get some money through the tax on the recordable media! They're sending a pretty diffuse message there.
Second, P2P software will not be outlawed. Early articles on this proposal were all based on the same telegram, written by a guy who clearly had misunderstood a few things. Several of the more serious news sources later posted corrections to that statement. A ban on P2P software would ofcourse be impossible, seeing as the same technology is used for a lot of very legitimite purposes.
A crack on the other hand, which only purpose is to circumvent copy protection, will be made illegal as I understand it. This creates another conflict, as the law still states that one is allowed to make a limited number of backup copies of legally purchased media. But what if the only way to make a copy is to circumvent copy protection? We'll see DeCSS all over again, just on the other side of the atlantic.
I have yet to read this suggestion entirely, but from other comemnts I also gather that there are hints at diminishing ISPs status as a common carrier, which would be the truly disastrous part of all this.
However, have in mind that this is just a suggestion and it will go though several revisions after being examined by various expert groups. I hope and believe this is not as bad as it looks.
I got a fairly well paid job about the same time MP3s got widespread so it's a bit difficult to tell what affected my record-buying habit the most, but since then I've bought about one record every day. Yes, one every day. A lot of them are singles (as I'm an amateur DJ), but still.
If all these people who used to buy 4 CDs every month now only buy 2 or 3, I and people like me are likely to make up for it. And I know my record consumption habit is far from unique.
However, I buy less and less mainstream music. Apart from my manic collecting of a certain icelandic singer (who occationally puts MP3s of her own, sometimes unreleased, tracks online), pretty much everything I buy is stuff that sells 2000 copies worldwide, at the most. And RIAA isn't seeing any of that money, so no wonder they're pissed. They'd like everyone to buy N'Sync and Celine Dion CDs, and not obscure electronica released exclusively on vinyl. Before the WWW boom I hadn't heard of many of the bands I enjoy today, so while I wasn't exactly big on boy bands the big RIAA labels still got to see a little more of my money.