hear music is the brand name of starbucks ' retail music concept and record label .

hear music began as a catalog company in cambridge , massachusetts , in 1990 before being purchased by starbucks in 1999 .

hear music

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established in 2007 as a joint venture between concord music group and starbucks . hear music is an assumed business name of starcon , llc , mentioned as ' starcon , llc d / b / a hear music ' on some releases .
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the company will also release his music through online download stores , while it also operates hear music coffee houses where customers can burn tracks onto cds .
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starbucks opened three flagship concept hear music stores , though all three stores were later converted back to regular starbucks stores when the hear music era ended in late 2008 . the three premier and flagship concept hear music stores were located in bellevue , washington ( located at 545 bellevue avenue ne , opened 11 - 24 - 2006 as a hear music ) , san antonio , texas ( located at 111 west crockett , opened 12 - 9 - 2005 as hear music store ) and miami beach , florida ( located at 605 lincoln road , opened 2 - 14 - 06 ) . there is an informative article here in urltoken about these flagship store locations .
hear for yourself :
al hassidi terei
is a grooving critique of selfishness . richard gehr
the company announced plans last week to sign established and new acts to hear music , which has previously released albums of licensed songs .
he added he was impressed with hear music ' s plan to use starbucks ' 13 , 500 retail outlets to sell the album .
as starbucks workers were putting the finishing touches on a new hear music coffeehouse in bellevue this week , meggan mcbride already was won over .
starbucks and concord music group proudly announced today that hear music inaugural cd release will be from none other than music legend paul mccartney . the album is slated for release early this summer and will be available at all traditional music retail outlets and starbucks locations internationally .
you may not be able to literally hear grace bell’s photographs in her new exhibit , “music scene hear . ” but you can feel the music playing in many of her heartfelt concert shots and portraits of legends and young lions from the worlds of jazz , blues , rock and classical .
a former starbucks coffee company location at 3 , 500 sf remodeled for a new concept involving sight , sound , and smell for starbucks hear music .
i remember i had a hear music starbucks card… . but i gave it to a barista / collector years ago… . i was a funky blue design .
glen barros , president of concord music group - which is starbucks ' partner in the hear music venture - said recording artists should be attracted by the idea of a built - in audience in starbucks .
i hear music is an intimate portrait of the cultural shift in istanbul from traditional to modern , told through the stories of three street vendors when their work suddenly becomes illegal .
hear for yourself : kyle and r & b singer kehlani bring back eighties pop on
just a picture .
mosi reeves
in an age where music has become somewhat of a disposable commodity , here to hear music is born to rinse clean music ' s limited shelf life , by injecting longevity , class and genuine soul into every release , our belief in quality over quantity will shine through with every track , keeping here to hear ' s musical output at the forefront of the house scenes most innovate and freshest labels . demos @ urltoken
“i hope people can hear the music , because what i aim for is the moment when sound and picture come together , ” said bell , whose new show at la jolla’s athenaeum music & arts library features 150 of her photos .
new music and the music that inspired it , from local to legendary . from minnesota public radio .
the bellevue coffeehouse will be the fourth hear music locale the company has opened since march 2004 . others are in santa monica , calif . ; san antonio , texas ; and miami .
starbucks and music go great together…so this combination of coffee house and music house always impressed me . i have only been to the miami beach store after it has been reformed to a regular store…but i never knew that this was a former hear music store . really nice to know that now .
sza , bryson tiller , jazmine sullivan — these are just some of the artists you can expect to hear in season 2 of insecure .
i’m wondering if you know the history of starbucks music policy after what you’ve written here . i know they went into partnership with concord music group in hear music , and then sold it altogether . what do they sell now ? do they have an arrangement with a label ? would love to know .
can you imagine a hear music store now ? it might work to have an entertainment concept starbucks now , but it would have to de - emphasize cds and maybe focus on itunes or other devices .
––– , 2000 , music and humanism : an essay in the aesthetics of music , oxford : oxford university press .
starbucks today will open its fourth hear music coffeehouse , the first in the region , in the lodge at bellevue square , where customers can order a double latte , relax on leather couches and burn personalized cds .
once upon a time , starbucks bought a small company called hear music . the year was 1999 , and starbucks wanted to expand into the entertainment industry and so they purchased hear music and all five of that company’s existing cd stores . the five stores that began as cd store were remodeled to include a starbucks coffee bar but eventually starbucks decided to close all five of those original stores . here are the five original locations :
hear for yourself : disc three of the epic kicks off with the blazing , funky 14 - minute piece
re run home .
christopher r . weingarten
––– , 2012 , the music between us : is music a universal language ? , chicago : university of chicago press .
hear for yourself : their debut ep is available to stream on bandcamp — four songs , 7 - and - a - half minutes , five bucks . brittany spanos
misti poling , an interior designer with starbucks , takes in a tune at the new starbucks hear music coffeehouse at bellevue square . the shop , which lets customers browse , listen to and burn cds at nine stations , . . . more
––– ( ed . ) , 1987 , what is music ? an introduction to the philosophy of music , new york : haven .
my own personal experience with the hear music era of starbucks really was not all that favorable . one day as i was out shopping at bellevue square , i stumbled upon the bellevue hear music location . i remember it being a rather jarring music . that was long before i was blogging , and i was not nearly as knowledgeable about starbucks as i am now . i can remember wondering if i was even in a starbucks at all , and think that i had found a cd store with a little starbucks bar . the music was too loud . i made a mental note not to return to that store .
hear for yourself : stevens may have pam on his side , but that doesn & apos ; t make the static sludge of
lydia
any less heartbroken . larry fitzmaurice
hear for yourself : lindeman & apos ; s pin - point attention to detail turns a late - night phone call into a gorgeous , lonely meditation on
loyalty .
hi melody and denise – i’ve been swamped but thought i’d pop my head in ( i’ll respond to your emails too ) . there used to be a hear music store in the woodfield mall in schaumburg many years ago too ( ~ 2000 ? )
here’s a full overview of the series : 1 . understanding the music industry : artist managers and booking agents 2 . understanding the music industry : music publishers , syncs and licensing 3 . understanding the music industry : record labels , a & rs , distribution , pluggers and pr
jb we can ' t forget , though , that this is a marketing concept . i would bet that there are people who , when they first went to womad , went to hear sunny ade or nusrat . if they had been asked ,
would you like to hear some english folk music ?
they would have said ,
ugh , you must be joking !
but over the years , because of their exposure to world music , their ears have been opened to the idea of music that comes out of a tradition . it ' s a marketing crossover .
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kcrw ' s 24 / 7 music channel , curated by morning becomes eclectic .
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bob boilen and robin hilton spin new music from emerging bands and musical icons .
latino arts and culture explained with music and conversation , presented by felix contreras .
where : athenaeum music & arts library , 1008 wall st . , la jolla
i did buy a few cds ( hear ) when they were around… . which i could still , i think , find in my cds somewhere . but , i remember always being disappointed with the music , never liked one of the cds that i bought . ( that i can remember )
misti poling , an interior designer with starbucks , takes in a tune at the new starbucks hear music coffeehouse at bellevue square . the shop , which lets customers browse , listen to and burn cds at nine stations , is one of four in the nation and the first in this region . less
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why is it important for you guys to be as current as possible ? it’s really important to issa and [ director melina matsoukas ] that the show sounds really fresh and feels very current . the stories and the setting of the show are current day , so we use the music to help set that scene . this is the music that’s playing right now , this is the music that you hear on the radio , this is the music that’s coming out that you’re streaming online right now or you will be in the next month or two .
hear for yourself :
together or alone ,
the first single from gold & stone , is feisty yet wistful , with yun & apos ; s voice ping - ponging between a sigh and a yelp . maura johnston
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download the full series ( 25 + pages ) on how the music industry works .
rd has radio been supportive ? there is world music on radio 3 , but not on radio 2 , which has folk music . do you need to change that ?
a mix of old favorites and new music from npr ' s all songs considered .
these people believe in you and most likely care about what you care about , which is so precious and beautiful . everyone has a gift to share and you will likely learn and hear amazing art and ideas from them too .
“music scene hear” also includes such blues and rock pioneers as john lee hooker , bo diddley , muddy waters and b . b . king , as well as such new music mavericks as john cage and the harry partch ensemble . and it showcases such former and current san diego - based greats as james moody , charles mcpherson , mike wofford , holly hofmann , joshua white and jeannie and jimmy cheatham .
the radio stations determined what music was broadcast . the event promoters and venue owners chose which bands were allowed to perform live and the distributors curated and pushed music to stores .
is i remember , round about 1993 or 1994 , salif keita saying to me categorically :
i don ' t make african popular music , i make world music .
hear for yourself : inspired by the
sass
of rihanna & apos ; s
take a bow ,
ballerini & apos ; s debut single ,
love me like you mean it ,
is a top 15 hit — a huge feat for a new female artist in country music . by beville dunkerley
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to learn more about how to get on music blogs , check out my new guide .
please check out my follow up article to this on
how to make music .
@ karl – i don’t know if you remember , but there were special silver hear music paper sacks too . i should have included a pic . wongster360 generously sent me one many months ago . maybe when i’m home form work , i’ll update the blog and add that pic . i still need to go back and fix typos !
auerbach’s love for the music of the late blues legend junior kimbrough resulted in him dropping out of college to pursue a career in rock ‘n’ roll .
i ' ve listened to him so much , it ' s just how i hear it , ” he said . “i studied him so much , getting f ' s in college when i should ' ve been studying , i was listening to junior ' s music instead…
jazz night in america is a public radio program , a video concert documentary series , and an online home for the music , from npr music , wbgo and jazz at lincoln center .
wo decades ago ,
world music
didn ' t exist ; or at least , not as a marketing term . this was a time when the reggae boom had passed , when paul simon had popularised south african music with graceland , and interest in european music was growing thanks to le mystère des voix bulgares . no one knew how all this music should be promoted .
if you read the blog , you can see that these hear music concept stores ended in 2008 and turned back into normal starbucks in 2008 . it looks like you might be sharing here to spread your link … having said that , i approved your comment because some of my readers might be interested in this remodeled brompton road starbucks in london .
in 1999 , the chain purchased the music - curation startup hear music , and in the ensuing years established a record label with big aspirations . “we believe strongly that we can transform the retail record industry , ” starbucks chairman howard schultz said in 2004 , and evidently others agreed . paul mccartney ditched emi to become starbucks ' s first signee , saying that the coffee giant seemed more excited about the musical innovation than his record company did .
there were also about 45 starbucks stores in austin , texas , and seattle which had cd burning stations . customers could download music and burn their own cds , using these music media bars .
the online extension of billboard magazine , urltoken is the essential online destination for the music business .
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and they were all right , that music video currently has over a billion views on youtube .
the online extension of billboard magazine , urltoken is the essential online destination for the music business .
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also , an added bonus . . . since you uploaded your music to jamendo , frostwire and free music archive - many content creators go to those sites to find music for their videos . youtube search your name and sort by latest upload date and see if any videos using your music are popping up ! ( make sure you contact the video owner if you aren ' t properly credited . )
hear for yourself : guitars squeal and soar on
i & apos ; ve been bored
as madison , in his gravelly , slackerish voice , shares a worthy sentiment :
i & apos ; ve been so sick of flowers on everything .
brandon geist
––– , 2011b , “emotional contagion from music to listener” , in s . davies 2011e : 47–65 .
higgins , kathleen marie , 1991 , the music of our lives , philadelphia : temple university press .
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––– , 2004 , the philosophy of music : theme and variations , edinburgh : edinburgh university press .
––– , 1987 , “the work of making a work of music” , in alperson 1987 : 101–29 .
cg radio 2 has just got it fixed that it doesn ' t like music in other languages .
award - winning radio host fiona ritchie explores evolving music from celtic roots in europe and north america .
it ' s very important for people to hear where my music is going in general , not just with one song ,
fonsi said before continuing .
i want people to get where my head is at musically speaking , it ' s a great album with very talented musicians . i ' m really excited to be able to share this with everyone .
dear lifehacker , i ' d like to release some music i ' ve made , but , for various reasons , i don ' t want to go through a record company . what are my options ? what are the best ways true music lovers can support my music directly rather than through a record company ?
sir paul mccartney has been unveiled as the first signing to the music label of coffee house chain starbucks .
––– , 2006 , “artistic expression and the hard case of pure music” , in kieran 2006 : 179–91 .
once your music is on the internet you still need to track down fans . this is the hardest part , but the best thing you can do is make it so your music is accessible in as many places as possible . here ' s a few simple rules to follow after you ' ve uploading your music :
spread it out to aggregation and radio services : people aren ' t always going to come searching for your music on their own . you need to make it accessible and easy to find . once your music is online , submit links to discovery engines like exfm and urltoken so people can find your music by accident .
jb most records that wouldn ' t have happened without the concept of world music are to me unlistenable .
“i love how the show encompasses so many decades of jazz and other music in san diego , and how it mixes local people with international jazz artists , ” plank said . “grace really got these artists , like max roach , to open up . her photo of max stopped me in my tracks . i can almost hear his voice when i look at her picture of him . ”
in most cases , youtube will not allow them to use traditionally copyrighted music ( and so much is ) , and these content creators risk getting their video deleted , or even worse , getting their account banned . music that is licensed by creative commons allows these youtubers to use your music and credit you in the description .
i do remember the whole hear era but i never saw a cd burning station in any store around here… . ( which is fine with me… . ) i really am not for all the ‘screens’ of any kind ( and they’re not around chicago , that i’ve ever seen . ) .
1 . make music 2 . give it away for free using a cc license 3 . free music = new fans 4 . new fans will reach out via social media and engage , be grateful and love them ! 5 . collect emails from your fans 6 . make more music and give it away for free 7 . email your current fans and ask them to share it 8 . free new music + current fans sharing that music = more new fans 9 . repeat 1 through 8 over and over again . 10 . magical things will happen
carrie schulze , of redmond , said it makes sense for starbucks to sell large quantities of music and coffee .
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if you ' re interested in selling music through google music you do so after paying a one - time $ 25 fee . once you pay the fee , you can upload as many songs or albums as you want .
susan’s vocal style is often described as a blend of janis joplin and bonnie raitt . you can hear that influence clearly on susan’s smoking version of koko taylor’s voodoo woman . as for her guitar style : susan was influenced by freddie king , johnny ‘guitar’ watson , buddy guy and stevie ray vaughan .
his latest album heads i win , tails you lose , released on ruf records earlier this year , is receiving great reviews . as did his 2008 debut record open road . you can expect to hear tracks from both records when the oli brown band play some uk dates in october and december 2010 .
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every young person is exposed to and engaged with current music that promotes , inspires and celebrates positive images and actions .
along with making sure the show sounds fresh , we also want to have a unique sound that’s kind of our own signature sound that you wouldn’t hear on any other show . a few years ago , there weren’t a lot of shows using a lot of hip - hop and r & b . eventually , there was more hip - hop getting used on shows and nowadays there are a few more shows where you can hear hip - hop and now r & b featured more . but we want to make sure that we kind of carve out our own sound out of that and using super current and upcoming artist help us achieve that as well because we don’t have to worry as much about other shows having used the same music .
in the movies : mr . williams’s homages to classical and popular music truly shine in the “star wars” scenes with diegetic music , music that is visibly performed onscreen , such as in the famous cantina band scene in “a new hope , ” and at jabba the hutt’s court in “return of the jedi . ” for the cantina , mr . williams wrote an uncanny approximation of big - band music ; for the court , he did the same with a baroque and classical pastiche .
@ sbirr – i totally agree that that san antonio store looks great . i need to do a follow up to this blog article and go visit the one in bellevue and see what it looks like now . i think these were all fairly large stores picked to be hear music stores converted from other stores , and then eventually back to a normal starbucks . i think that is cool you’ve been to the one in florida ! thanks !
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the second episode covers music publishers , the different types and talk of synchronizations ( also known as syncs ) and licensing .
whether you’re looking to get signed or want to distribute independently , it is important to understand the complexities of music distribution .
there are a couple of dimensions to most solutions of the puzzle of pure music’s value . one is the extent to which it is agreed that music really is abstract . to the extent that one thinks that music is not unrelated to the real world , one will be able to argue that music’s value is at least no more puzzling than the value of arts more obviously related to the real world , such as literature and representational painting and sculpture . ( see ridley 2004 for an extended critique of taking the concept of “pure” music as central to musical aesthetics . ) the other dimension to most solutions of the puzzle of pure music’s value is the extent to which one thinks the abstractness of music is the source of its value . thus , two theorists might agree on the extent to which music is related to the real world ( by being expressive , say ) , yet one locate its primary value in that expressiveness while the other locates it in its abstract , purely formal features .
cg reggae isn ' t world music . if you have the box already , it doesn ' t need to clutter up the world - music box . there is a finite amount of space in here . it ' s the same with folk . eliza carthy has the folk awards ; she doesn ' t need to be in the world - music awards as well .
after composing the song with ender , fonsi called on his producers andrés torres and mauricio rengifo to put together his vision for the track .
in a matter of three hours , maybe even less , we had 80 % of the production that you hear now . the main sound is there . that was it ,
the singer says .
that ' s what got the ball rolling . we put the cuatro , which is the spanish guitar that you hear in the beginning . that ' s a very typical instrument from puerto rico . that ' s normally huge for very traditional music . we thought that it would be a very interesting sound to gel both the pop world and the urban world , but also for the song to have musicality and not just be another urban - pop song .
since then , i have returned to istanbul a number of times for extended periods up until 2015 . every visit was dedicated to deepening my research and to shooting portions of my film , istanbul streets : i hear music . i wanted to capture the urban changes as they were happening slowly over time . as an outsider , i also felt it was important to spend as much time as possible in istanbul and do my best to understand the situation from a local perspective .
“grace did such a good job of collecting all our lives in one place . these photos are an integral part of american music history . they should be shown to kids and music students . i hope the whole city of san diego can see this . ”
there are two main questions asked about our emotional responses to pure music , apart from what role they play in expressiveness . the first is analogous to the “paradox of fiction” . it is not clear why we should respond emotionally to expressive music when we know that no one is undergoing the emotions expressed . the second is a variant of the “paradox of tragedy” . if some music arouses “negative” emotional responses in us , such as sadness , why do we seek out the experience of such music ? i address these questions in turn .
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those were the days when music was played from vinyl discs and cassette tapes , and when the discovery of music was limited to listening to the radio , going to a venue to see a live - show or by browsing your favorite section in the record store .
cg i don ' t fit into that model . i ' ve been listening to this music and it makes me feel nauseous .
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wow , the two story store is very nice ! it’s kind of an apple store mixed with a starbucks . the pictures that have the holiday merchandise just happen to be from my favorite christmas setup at starbucks ! i loved the tables that had christmas trees made out of pounds of coffee ! these stores wouldn’t have been able to survive under the current lean starbucks standards , i would assume ! nonetheless , very well designed stores . oh , and how can i forget , hearing “you’re listening to hear music , the sound of music at starbucks , exclusively on xm radio” being played a thousand times a day in store !
the street vendors ' calls stand out like soloists against a playful backdrop of a musical urban soundscape . it is the counterpoint to the important social struggles that the protagonists of the film face every day as they fight to keep their place in the new order that the city is imposing on them . i hope my film will inspire viewers to appreciate diversity , pay attention to what surrounds them so that it doesn ' t disappear , and maybe even hear music where before they heard noise .
the profound middlebrowness of starbucks and many of its music offerings can ' t be disputed ; the first cd the store offered , in 1994 , was by kenny g . but it ' s worth remembering that not too long ago , starbucks was seen as a record - industry rebel , and the effective shuttering of its retail - music arm suggests that one vision for the future of music is dead .
i owe a big thank you to a very loyal reader of this blog who sent me all of her ( or his ? ) photos for this article . this person doesn’t comment on the blog , but i have exchanged enough emails with her to know that she is powerfully passionate about starbucks , and more knowledgeable than i . the information in this blog doesn’t quite match the wikipedia article on hear music , but i trust my source . all of the photos are courtesy of this anonymous reader .
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juan pablo reinvented and relaunched the mindtrip imprint , showcasing the full degree of his sound . the label changed its name from mindtrip music to
so . . . let ' s begin . . . my 10 tips to
make it
in the music industry . . .
get about 10 , 000 visits and 200 music submissions a day . how are you supposed to make your email to them stand out ?
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cg my reservation about the term
world music
has always been that all the great terms - like jazz , reggae , rock ' n ' roll - sound musical . they come up in songs . nobody is ever going to have a song title with that phrase
world music
in it . if you took the word
music
away , and just called it
world
, that would be better .
one might simply deny that we respond emotionally to music . r . a . sharpe ( 2000 : 1–83 ) , while stopping short of outright denial , suggests that our emotional responses to music are a much smaller component of our understanding experience of it than the philosophical literature on the topic would suggest ( see also zangwill 2004 ) . peter kivy ( 1999 ) goes almost all the way , arguing that those who report emotional reactions to music are confusing the pleasure they take in the beauty of the music , in all its expressive individuality , with the feeling of the emotion expressed .
in classical music : as with han and leia’s theme , a direct comparison in the canon isn’t easily apparent . but mr . williams’s score here does recall the music of prokofiev . listen , for example , to this moment from the ballet “romeo and juliet” ; it is the leitmotif for romeo and his friends , mercutio and benvolio . the music , like mr . williams’s theme for the ewoks , reflects the boys’ playful behavior and lightness .
after talking with a few musicians , the two most recommended services for this are tunecore and cd baby . for around $ 35 - $ 40 both of these services will upload and sell your music on amazon , itunes , beatport , facebook , emusic , and a host of other stores . they also send your music to the big streaming and radio services . you retain your rights to your music , but they handle the submission process .
this leads to two types of intellectual property , called music copyrights . one for the song , another for the sound recording . the song is typically represented by a publisher , whereas the sound recording is represented by a record label . for a better understanding , read my guide on music copyright .
each week , npr ' s award - winning program showcases both acclaimed artists and up - and - coming performers as they share music and memories .
this may seems strange and make some feel uncomfortable , but yes - - let others make money off of your music , without paying you anything .
@ anahid – thanks for stopping by the blog . i wish i knew more about the business arrangement of how starbucks finds music for their stores and which cds they sell . there was a partner named timothy jones who very early on was very involved with the music business . i have heard that he is now retired , after a long starbucks career . i’ve thought about asking pr to set me up with someone who could be interviewed with music questions , because it’s a common question i get . i’ve gotten tons of emails that essentially ask me how people can get their music sold in starbucks .
of course , you might be an independent musician who already has a good following of people and who ' s not interested in giving your music away for free or letting people pay whatever they want . you can still use bandcamp as a storefront with set prices , but if you want to get your music onto the big stores like google music , amazon , and itunes , you have to go through a distribution service and pay a little money .
mr . stollman prided himself on a hands - off policy with regard to the music’s creation : “the artists alone decide what you hear on their esp - disk , ” read a slogan on the record sleeves . but he also developed a reputation for not paying his artists fairly . in her book “as serious as your life : the story of the new jazz” ( 1977 ) , valerie wilmer wrote that “as far as many of the new musicians were concerned , bernard stollman became simultaneously the most hated and most needed man in the recording industry . ”
the two go together , especially in seattle where people are into their music and coffee ,
schulze said .
i like the idea .
my film also pays tribute to the cms istanbul street vendor concert , to ismet sıral and to woodstock ' s creative music studio ' s musical approach .
bicknell , jeanette , 2007 , “explaining strong emotional responses to music : sociality and intimacy” , journal of consciousness studies , 14 ( 12 ) : 5–23 .
this concludes the third episode of the understanding the music industry . in our next episode we will go in - depth about record label deals and agreements .
just upload all of your cc by music to a youtube channel with a picture of you / your album art and your cc license in the description .
dear aspiring , up until a couple of years ago , your best option may have involved setting up a myspace profile and throwing some music on . nowadays , you have a few great options to choose from . over the years i have tried every store and distribution service i ' ve come across as both a listener and an amateur musician . it ' s not hard to skip the record labels and sell and distribute music on your own . let ' s start by taking a look at how you can skip the labels and get your music online before we move onto making sure music - lovers can find it easily .
ok , so assuming that you now have chosen a creative commons license , it ' s time to submit your music to some of the most awesome creative commons sites out there . check out jamendo , frostwire and free music archive . these sites host cc music and have large member bases so you ' ll immediately start to see plays and downloads . congrats ! you have begun to build a fan base ! ( there are definitely more of these types of sites - -
if you ' re not into learning business / marketing , get someone on your team that wants to learn it while you learn to evolve your music . i partnered with someone that loves my music and loves marketing , and it helps if you love and enjoy each other as people and have similar spiritual and creative interests !
cg people started to make what they thought was world music . ian anderson at rogue records put out a wonderful cassette made in senegal by baaba maal , which was pure world music as all of us thought about it . baaba maal was subsequently signed to island records , and began to make what he and his producers conceived as
world music
. it was a hotchpotch , a hybrid , a fusion - but it would not have existed before we came up with this term .
entertainment weekly : i know a lot of music supervisors spend the hiatus listening to new music and put together playlists for producers right before production starts up again . did you do that for issa ? kier lehman : yeah , i definitely pull a bunch of music during the off - season . as we’re kind of gearing up and i start seeing scripts come through , i start reaching out to my contacts and doing research on what new artists would be good for the show . then i start putting together batches to music that i send over to the producers and editorial for them to keep in mind and use as they start putting the shows together .
––– , 2014b , “the possibility of profound music” , british journal of aesthetics , 54 ( 3 ) : 299–322 . doi : 10 . 1093 / aesthj / ayu031
––– , 1983b , “platonism in music : another kind of defense” , american philosophical quarterly , 24 ( 3 ) : 245–252 . reprinted in kivy 1993 : 59–74 .
you have three different choices for charging for your music : free , pay - what - you - want , and a set price . each has their own advantages and different services that work better . knowing that , let ' s break down the best places to upload your music based on how much you want for it .
tag your songs properly : for several years i worked at a weekly paper covering local music and the biggest way musicians shoot themselves in the foot is by not tagging their music properly . sites like soundcloud or bandcamp let you pick your genre or location because it helps people find you . use genre tags properly and honestly . it might seem funny to throw your song in the
salsa
section , but it makes it hard for people to get an idea of what the music really sounds like . include your location too , because if anyone ever wants to write about your music , the first thing they want to know is where you ' re from .
rubin : i was a fan of rap music since i was in high school , and there was a radio show called
mr . magic ' s rap attack on whbi
, and i would listen to that every week and it was on for an hour — and during that hour that was the only place you could hear hip hop on the radio - and i ' d listen to it and would record it every week on a cassette recorder — and then listen back to it all week . i liked punk rock , and it seemed like a new breed of punk rock to me .
the cliché that music is “the language of the emotions” is often considered as a possible starting point for a theory of musical expressiveness . the idea combines the attractive simplicity of conventionality that associationism makes the basis of music’s meaning with the formalist notion that music’s order is to be understood in terms of syntax . ( see lerdahl & jackendoff 1983 for a theory along the latter lines . ) however , although deryck cooke ( 1959 ) and leonard meyer ( 1956 ) are often cited as proponents , it is not clear that anyone holds a full - blown version of the theory . the central problem is the great disparities between language and music , in terms of the ways in which each is both syntactic and semantic ( jackendoff 2011 ) . a serious subsidiary problem is that even if music were about the emotions in the way that language can be , that would not account for music’s expressiveness . the sentence “i am sad” is about the emotions , but it is not expressive of sadness in the way a sad face is , though i could use either to express my sadness . most people agree that music’s relation to emotion is more like that of a sad face than that of a sentence . ( this last criticism is also applicable to susanne langer’s theory ( 1953 ) that music is about the emotions in a symbolic yet non - linguistic way . )
who are you most excited for the audience to hear ? it’s all exciting to me because of just how well everything works together and how great the episodes are . we have a couple featured uses so far from the new sza album , which are really well - tied into our story line even though her album was written separately from the show , but it really speaks to a lot of the story lines that we have going this season .
for me , the great thing is the commitment and the passion and the love of music , which as an artist is good to see ,
he said .
––– , 1998 , the quest for voice : on music , politics , and the limits of philosophy : the 1997 ernest bloch lectures , oxford : oxford university press .
goldman , alan , 1992 , “the value of music” , journal of aesthetics and art criticism , 50 ( 1 ) : 35–44 . doi : 10 . 2307 / 431065
––– , 2007 , listening to popular music : or , how i learned to stop worrying and love led zeppelin , ann arbor , mi : university of michigan press .
scruton , roger , 1983 , “understanding music” , in the aesthetic understanding : essays in the philosophy of art and culture , manchester : carcanet press , pp . 77–100 .
newly formed record label from starbucks entertainment and concord music group to release paul mccartney first new studio album in nearly two years featuring all new songs from the legendary artist .
unsurprisingly , perhaps , those who take the experience of music’s expressiveness to be a more intimately emotional one ( through being predicated on imaginative engagement with the music , say ) , tend to emphasize that experience as more central to musical understanding , and thus attribute a larger part of music’s value to its expressiveness . those , on the other hand , whose theory of the experience of musical expressiveness is more distanced ( a matter of noticed resemblance , say ) , tend to place less weight on this element in their theories of musical value . at one extreme of this spectrum is the position that denies music to be expressive at all , and thus cannot attribute music’s value to its expressiveness ( most notably hanslick 1854 ; see also zangwill 2004 ) . apart from this extreme position , most theorists agree that music’s value is to be located in different kinds of experience , including the experience of formal and expressive features ; their disagreements are mostly about the relative weight of these different kinds of experiences in a complete account of musical value .


microillusions , based in granada hills , california was a computer game developer and publisher of the home computer era ( late 1970s to early 1990s ) .

microillusions , as a company , was a strong supporter of the commodore amiga and would typically release a title on that platform before porting it to others .

the company went out of business in or about 1990 .

microillusions

microillusions - wikipedia ( information about the company on the open encyclopedia site . )
the microillusions booth at the january 1988 amiexpo show in los angeles , which filled half of one wall inside the westin bonaventure’s convention space .
microillusions was an american game developer and publisher active from the 1970ies to the 1990ies . they primarily released original games for the amiga . the company went defunct in 1990 .
many years later , i went over all the royalty statements i had gotten from microillusions , and discovered that there were lots of basic arithmetic errors in them — and not always in jim’s favor .
' ' craps academy ' ' is $ 39 . 95 for the amiga . microillusions is at 17408 chatsworth street , granada hills , calif . 91344 : phone ( 800 ) 522 - 2041 .
demo from photon paint 2 . 0 by oren peli program design by oren peli and yuval goldstein special brush effects : eyal piassetsky additional programming : amir zbeda copyright ( c ) 1987 , 1988 , 1989 bazbosoft ! and microillusions
microillusions not only published games , but produced applications & computer peripherals for amiga , atari st and c64 . it went bankrupt in 1990 / 91 . hollyware entertainment was formed out of its ashes by ex - employee , david boyles .
part of microillusions ' one to one series , which also included galactic invasion & fire power . games are characterised by split - screens & 2 player modem support ( 1200 baud only ) . distributed in the uk by activision . docs are contained in - game .
my financial relationship with microillusions was long and complicated . jim wasn’t a good businessman . that was not unusual for the software industry at the time , but there was so much wide - open opportunity that any half - competent person could start a software business and be moderately successful .
not so wholesome - sounding is the micro - vice series from microillusions , whose latest entry is ' ' craps academy . ' ' this too is an instructional program , with a booklet full of numbers and advice , but what chiefly distinguishes it is the sheer beauty of the amiga graphics .
one suspects that the real cause behind these failures and so many others was a nemesis of microillusions’s own making that also plagued many others in the amiga’s home - grown software industry : a simple lack of business acumen , and with it an associated tendency to place dreams before ethics . rather than belabor the point too much more personally , i’ll deliver david joiner’s take on jim steinert’s idea of running a business :
he leased an office for his new venture microillusions a few blocks from his store , and also picked up the lease on a small house to form a little software - development commune consisting of joiner and three of his friends , talented artists and / or programmers all . joiner describes the first year or two he spent creating inside that little house as “probably the best time of my life . we really felt like we were building the future . ”
microillusions also produces a realistic ' ' blackjack academy . ' ' a nice feature of both the craps and blackjack programs is that you can choose the rules of a favorite casino , or make your own . ' ' blackjack academy ' ' is $ 39 . 95 for amiga , commodore 64 / 128 and apple ii ' s , and $ 42 . 95 , with both 5 . 25 - inch and 3 . 5 - inch diskettes , for ms - dos computers .
while i’m very aware of the collapse of activision / mediagenic and the cataclysmic or near - cataclysmic effect it had on many smaller companies , there are mentions in amazing computing of microillusions being dropped before that happened . but as it happens , i’m going to be writing an article about the mediagenic bankruptcy very soon , so will keep an eye out for necessary revisions here . in the meantime , if you’d like to share a little more about your sources for this information , either here or via email , i’d certainly love to hear more .
classic rpg . the three brothers , introduced in the first game , have been teleported to a foreign country where they have to save the local people from evil powers spreading in the once peaceful lands . the graphics resemble those in
as you might already know , the dreamer ' s guild went out of business while making the game , and towards the end , had to release it quickly in order for it to be released at all . therefore , a lot of things were missed , not finished , left half done .
you can find all sorts of quest items throughout the game , though you will not be able to do a thing with them . entire parts of the game were removed , such as the island of ion . the island where you are suppose to find the 3rd lost key ! ( the first key being the ' tesseract key ' that you can find in the game , giving you the option to travel in the astral dimension , the 2nd key is still unknown ) .
the is a mentioning of the 3rd key is in one of the books that you can read in the game , the book is called
the three keys
, and goes as following :
the un - named key , sometimes called ' ratom ' s horrible bag ' was used only once . found by the mage ratom in the land ione that once sat in farr ' s northeast corner , the key first manifested itself as a bag capable of holding its own weight one million times over . ratom , ever foolish and arrogant , turned the bag inside - out to study how it worked . it slowly enveloped the entire land , threatening to ingest all of farr and the known universe . was it not for the party of the amorphous blob halting its expansion by sewing the bag up with the platinum string from the belly of the witch king , the un - named ' s ravenous appetite may have destroyed even the eternals . the bag is thought to be destroyed , tossed into the acid eddies of the astral plane by the great warrior pylanthius .
alas , joe pearce , a major name in the dreamer ' s guild , one of the main programmers , said :
in halls of the dead , my programming work was mainly on the island of ione , which sadly was never released with the game .
some piece of the island still remains in the game , but can only be reached by using a cheat item ( see the cheats section ) .
fta2 fansite ( faery tale adventure ii : halls of the dead fanpage . includes information about the game , the dreamer ' s guild , staff , special maps and walkthroughs . )
once upon a time , the people of holm lived happily and peacefully , protected by a powerful talisman . but one day , their land was attacked , and the talisman stolen . a brave warrior went out to investigate the talisman ' s disappearance , but returned mortally wounded . before he died , he told his three sons that the talisman was stolen by the evil necromancer , and must be retrieved at all costs . . .
is a role - playing game in which the player can assume control of any of the three brothers - julian , philip , or kevin . each of the three has his own strengths : julian is the archetypal melee fighter , philip has high luck and intelligence , while kevin is known for his kindness . should the player fail while controlling one of the brothers , the next one will replace him . each brother will be revived a few times when vanquished by an enemy , until his luck runs out , at which point he will die permanently .
much of the gameplay is dedicated to exploring the large world , interacting with non - playable characters and building up the brothers ' combat abilities by participating in battles . the fastest - growing parameter is bravery , which is comparable to experience points and strength combined . each defeated enemy yields bravery points ; as it grows , so does the hero ' s vitality ( maximum hit points ) , albeit at a slower rate . combat system is rather simple and is done in action style , with the player pressing a key or a mouse button while navigating the protagonist towards or away from the enemy . predating
, the game has a day and night cycle , and the main character has to eat and rest .
is notable for having a very vast world , usually considered the largest ever created for a video game at the time of its release . players can explore approximately 17 , 000 screens of terrain . the world is also interconnected , i . e . there are no transitions between different types of areas . items can be dropped by enemies as well as found anywhere in the game ' s world . there is also npc interaction and quests the protagonist can undertake .
with the notable exception of electronic arts , the established american software industry was uncertain what to make of the amiga in the wake of its initial release . impressive as the machine was , it was also an expensive proposition from a parent company best known for much cheaper computers — and a parent company that was in a financial freefall to boot . thus most publishers confined their support to inexpensive ports of existing titles that wouldn’t break the bank if , as so many expected , neither commodore nor their amiga were still around in a year or so .
the faery tale adventure is the story of three brothers who set out to save their village of tambry from an evil necromancer . their quest will require one or more of them — if you get one of them killed , you automatically take the reins of another — to traverse the vast world of holm from end to end , a process that by itself could take you the player hours of real time if journeying entirely on foot . whilst traveling , you must also fight monsters and assemble the clues necessary to complete your quest .
it’s difficult to convey using words just how lovely and lyrical your journeys around holm can be . even screenshots don’t do the faery tale adventure justice ; this is a game that really must be seen and heard in action . here , then , is just a little taste , in which i take a magical ride on the back of a giant turtle to visit a sorceress in her crystalline lair .
if it’s difficult to fully describe the experience of playing the faery tale adventure using words , it’s doubly difficult to explain just how stunning it was in its day . note the depth - giving isometric perspective , still a rarity in games of the mid - 1980s . note the way that characters and things cast subtle shadows . and note how the entirety of the world is presented at the same scale . gone is the wilderness / town dichotomy of the ultima games , in which the latter blow up from tiny spots on the map to self - contained worlds of their own when you step into them . in the faery tale adventure , if it’s small ( or big ) on the outside , it’s small ( or big ) on the inside . i’d also tell you to note the wonderful music , except that i’m quite sure you already have ( assuming you have the sound turned on , of course ) . seldom has music made a game what it is to quite the extent it does this one .
leaving aside the goal of actually solving the game , which is kind of hopeless — we’ll get to that in a moment — the faery tale adventure is all about the rhythm of wandering , following roadways and peeking into hidden corners as the music plays and day turns to night and back again . like another early amiga landmark , defender of the crown , and unlike far too many other games on this platform and others , it has a textured aesthetic all its own that’s much more memorable than the bloody action - movie pyrotechnics so typical of games then and now . play it just a little , and you’ll never , ever forget it .
that every bit of this vast world and all that makes it up — code , art , and music alike — was created virtually unaided by david joiner in about seven months never ceases to amaze me . this leonardo had found his niche at last :
it’s ironic because when i was growing up i was never able to focus on one single creative outlet and ignore the others — and this was considered a disadvantage . people would tell me that i had to learn to focus on one thing . otherwise i would never be successful , just be a dilettante . i struggled to find a profession which would use all of my skills , not just some of them .
david joiner all dressed up in his armor for the faery tale adventure package .
jim and i also differed in our approach to business ethics . he imagined himself to be a sharp dealer , and once boasted to me how he “saved money” in dealing with disk - duplication companies . you see , at the time there were companies which would do all the duplication work — that is , make copies of the floppy disks , print the packaging , and assemble the boxes . and many of these companies offered ninety - day terms — that is , you didn’t have to pay for ninety days , so you could use the money you made selling the product to pay back the duplicators . this made it possible to be an entrepreneur with very little startup capital , other than the sweat equity of writing software .
well , jim’s idea was that when the ninety days come up you simply refuse to pay — and then , eight months later when the duplicators eventually get around to suing you , you settle out of court for like one - third of the money . this same kind of playing fast and loose with the rules is what caused him to lose the hasbro [ sic . — i believe he means hanna - barbera ] contract , which up to that point had been an incredibly valuable asset to the company .
by then joiner had long since moved on to greener pastures in games and other forms of software development , although he would never again helm quite so impactful a project as the faery tale adventure . the writing had been on the wall for software leonardos even as he was creating his masterwork . working with a new development team who called themselves the dreamer’s guild , he did belatedly create halls of the dead : the faery tale adventure ii in 1997 . in the tradition of its predecessor , it looked and initially seemed to play great , but showed itself over time to be half - finished and well - nigh uncompleteable .
( sources : computer gaming world of february 1988 and october 1991 ; commodore magazine of september 1989 ; amazing computing of august 1987 , april 1988 , june 1988 , august 1989 , october 1989 , march 1990 , april 1990 , october 1991 , december 1991 , and april 1992 ; info of april 1992 . the home page of david joiner ( talin ) hasn’t been updated since 2000 , but was nevertheless very useful . still more useful was an interview with joiner done by amiga lore . )
the music at the beginning of the game is a distorted mess in this version , the only otherwise working one i could find . this is down to one of the few differences between the amiga 1000 , for which the game was originally designed , and later amiga models — a sound pointer doesn’t get automatically set in the latter . if you just give it a moment , the music will resolve from dissonance to consonance and will play as it should henceforward . i think it’s kind of a cool effect , actually — but then i occasionally blast sonic youth , much to my wife’s chagrin , so take that with a grain of salt .
note that you will need to answer a few copy - protection questions at the beginning by using the map included in the zip .
for those of you who are hopeless completionists , i’ve also included with this zip the computer gaming world review that gives much valuable guidance on how to pursue your ( otherwise almost certainly futile ) quest .
by far the easiest way to get started in amiga emulation and to play this game and the other amiga games i’ll be featuring in this blog for quite some time to come is by purchasing cloanto’s amiga forever package . it makes the whole process pretty painless . ↩
i actually like that music bug , it reminds me of times , when i used to load ordinary ms - dos system files to fast tracker and used them as samples in my tracks .
anyway , if anyone is interested : music bug is fixed in whdload version of the game .
this comment may be “pathetic home team pride” and a narrow excuse for one , but it did get my attention seeing that david joiner had programmed the radio shack color computer before getting into the amiga . i still might not have dared bring it up save for a brief note in your “the future was here” that newtek’s tim jemison had also programmed the color computer ; it at least lets me muse whether there was some particular attraction or advantage in moving from the motorola 6809 to the 68000 ( and i’ve seen ads in “atari explorer” magazine by a company called michtron , who had also run ads in the color computer magazine “the rainbow . ” ) “brand loyalty” could have been a tricky thing with personal computers in the latter 1980s .
in any case , i bought amiga forever a while ago and used to to get an emulator running , although i could definitely do more with it in the future .
there were a few color computer developers who migrated to the amiga , but i don’t think it was down to any similarities between the 6809 and 68000 . it’s my understanding that the 6809’s assembly language was effectively a superset of the 6502’s , such that if you knew 6502 assembly you could program the 6809 quite effectively . i’ve never programmed the 6809 , but i have the 6502 and the 68000 , and they really are completely different architectures .
otherwise i have no great explanation . maybe a strange fondness for good computers that just don’t get no respect ? no… probably just coincidence . : )
leaving aside the goal of actually solving the game , which is kind of hopeless [ … ] it has a textured aesthetic all its own that’s much more memorable than the bloody action - movie pyrotechnics so typical of games then and now . play it just a little , and you’ll never , ever forget it .
eh , well , i played it a little , and i pretty much forgot it until now , despite the fact that i think i still have the square - folder - type c64 package out in the garage somewhere with the disk in it . i always found games like this too difficult , too easy to get killed when you’re barely a few steps out of the starting town , or in some cases when your first adventures are still within it . ( see also drakken , bard’s tale , knights of legend , etc . ) i wonder now if this was a way to squeeze out more gameplay hours , though in my case it meant more things ending up on the shelf afterwards untouched after about 30 minutes’ play . ( i guess i’m too much of a softie . )
fair enough… but i would suggest that this is a game that really needs to be experienced on the amiga . ; )
nice writeup . i bought the c64 version of this game from toys r us back in the day .
i remember being amazed by the graphics and scope – but the loading times , oh man .
minutes to enter a house , minutes to exit it . completely unplayable for an impatient kid !
“note the way that characters and things cast subtle shadows that lengthen and change position as the sun works its way around the sky . ”
i would say that not enough time passes in the video to make this clear , but , rather embarrassingly , i’m now not at all sure that the effect is present at all . ( the shadows are , that is , but i’m not sure they really change position . ) excised that bit in the name of erring on the side of caution . thanks !
“moments of wonder , like the first time you hitch a ride on that turtle you see above — or , even better , on a majestic swan — do crop up from time to time , but far too infrequently . the final impression is of nothing so much as a beautiful world running inside a marvelous engine that’s now just waiting for a designer to come along and , you know , write an actual game for it all . ”
you’re right that there’s a certain tension here , one that’s shared with a lot of other sprawling old - school games like the ultimas . i feel like the best compromise might be to go ahead and include some crazy , secret easter eggs to reward the hardcore , but to make them non - essential to victory . this way you create a game that’s solvable by everyone without destroying the joy of stumbling across the magical and unexpected for those people who want to plumb every depth and explore every nook and cranny . i’m no expert on console games , but i believe that nintendo tended to be quite good at doing this .
same here ! interestingly , the first question on the amiga was always “make haste , but take… ? ” i believe there were about 10 questions , and the answers tended to rhyme somewhat .
fight , might , right , night , knight , light , fright… . : )
great write - up ! back then the graphics and music blew me away on the amiga 500 and they still do ( sadly on a emulator these days ) … . i even play this game now and then to bring back memories .
when i read the story about joiner and his struggles around his creativity i felt somehow connected , which even enforced my admiration to the game and creator . i’m also a creative guy and still searching for a project / way of living which demands on all my creativity ( music , writing , drawing , love for pixel art , almost the same as joiner except for the programming : ) ) .
coincidentally i’ve just started to do some research to transcribe some of the game tunes for acoustic guitar ( complete with bass and melody , aka fingerpicking ) and make them playable / soundable while i’m not playing the game . i probably will put it online when it is finished .
i’m quite a dreamer so a few days ago i thought even about launching a website / memorial for fta , where every single video , musical piece , game rom and art could be finded . or… . initiate a new version which stays close to the original , but with better balance and story line . but , you know , time is the evil man here . anyway , i would love to stay in contact with people and if anyone would initiate this kind of project i will be the first to offer help where possible .
a very fair and thoughtful appraisal of what probably was my favorite amiga game – it was for sure the one i spent most time on .
at the time i found the ultima series too geeky and zelda too gamey . and i certainly wasn’t interested in dungeon master or wizardy – those i found as unappealing as paper and pen rpgs . faery tale , however , was a breath of fresh air to me . the directness of a single - scale , seamless world : 17 000 smoothly scrolling screens which invited you to stroll around in the landscape of your childhood’s fairy tales ! the music , of course , helped to make the experience intoxicatingly immersive .
graphically , too , it was way ahead . it made ultima iv look boring and it made the legend of zelda look crude . i find it mostly resembles ultima vii , which didn’t arrive until 1992 , but it is also similar to chris roberts’s c64 rpg times of lore from 1988 ( that game engine might be even more impressive than joiner’s ) .
it is true that the breadcrumbs from time to time are very sparsely dispersed . i did manage to solve the game but i also remember that i had some help from a hint page in either commodore user or computer & videogames . some solutions struck me as far - fetched but i reasoned that they probably only seemed so because i had a pirated copy and hadn’t read the manual . i guess i was wrong about that .
by the way , i just finished the future was here and enjoyed it immensely . i enjoyed the platform studies of atari vcs and nes too , but found the writing styles of those two books just a little cumbersome ( still very impressive works ) . i’d love to read a c64 platform studies by you !
sadly , the amiga platform never really stood a chance , commodore was a great technology company and horrible at marketing . the c64 is listed in the guinness world records as the highest - selling single computer model of all time .
it was activision / mediagenic that was failing , they lost a multi - year patent infringement suit , they were not paying the affiliated labels , and to make matters worse , before they filed bankruptcy , activision / mediagenic “stuffed” the distribution channels with software from every affiliate , collected the money from the distributors , and didn’t pay the affiliated labels . most affiliated labels went out of business when activision / mediagenic went under . those affiliated labels that tried to continue after activision / mediagenic bankruptcy were met with an insurmountable mountain of inventory “returns” from the distributors .
the hanna - barbara license ; games , paint and animation titles that were being developed for pc / amiga / atari / sega / gameboy all died with activision / mediagenic bankruptcy as did many other titles in development by the activision / mediagenic affiliated labels .
oh , man ! i had no idea so many of the software i remember from my childhood was the work of these guys . i never played fta , but remember discover , photon paint , and music - x — the latter two because my father paid for his amiga 2000 by making slideshows of available real estate for a local realtor , complete with synthesised sound track . iirc , he ended up using aegis sonix for its simpler interface , but i remember well fruit salad surgery and other demo songs included with music - x .
err , so * much * of the software . although i’m sure i’ll see other typos as soon as i click post .
a few days ago my husband was reading some other article about the faery tale adventure and asked if i remembered it . i said yeah , i never got very far , too easy to get killed early on and i had no idea what i was supposed to be doing ; what about it ? and he said “it was basically all talin’s work . ” cool , i thought , and figured you’d written about it a while back and i would look it up . well , i can see i commented here about two years ago and apparently i totally breezed by the fact that this talin is the talin i know . like , i have gone to parties and gaming afternoons at his house , know . not to name - drop , it’s just surreal for me to have figured this out ! probably i missed the fact before because the photo in the armor doesn’t look terribly much like he does now – a lot less hair , for one thing – although now that i know who it is , i can see it facially .
this game gave me , my wife and – much later – my kids a huge amount of enjoyment . it does take a while to figure out what you have to do but it builds up and there are a few ways of going about things ( i got the midnight meeting at the graveyard but missed the hidden desert city ) . i’ve never been an ace game player but did finish this and enjoyed the finale , when it seemed like the developer was having a bit of fun ( it’s not obvious at first you have to turn around and go in backwards ) .
fair criticism about some of the long walks . when you find the teleportation rings and later the swan , things move along a little faster . also fair comment about invincibility versus early extreme vulnerability . the suspense music loses its effect when you have too much strength further on in the game , as most of the attackers don’t pose much of a problem ( archers are still a pain though ) .
but the atmospherics are great . changing music and light with time of day , needing food and sleep , being able to swim depending on your strength , finding a raft on the river – and of course the turtle .
overall a ground - breaking game with its contextual music and unconstrained geography . but most of all the game , as you say , has some sort of magic – once you get into it – that stays with you .
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actually wagering your own money while you are learning how to play a game can be painfully expensive .
now applications plus comes to the rescue with ' ' championship poker , ' ' a new title in its play and learn to win series . it is for those who want to practice the game of hold ' em , an increasingly popular poker variant that has migrated from casino tables to friendly , and not so friendly , weekend games .
in either the computer or real - life game of hold ' em , you can , with practice , make a quick estimate of what hands your opponents are likely to be holding and your chances of beating them . you can also often determine whether your cards have little chance of winning , and so fold ' em , or are in fact unbeatable , and hold ' em .
this is true to varying degrees of every kind of poker , of course , but hold ' em adds intriguing twists that put basic card sense and the simple ability to count at a premium .
each player is dealt two cards face down . a betting round ensues . three cards , ' ' the flop , ' ' are then dealt face up . these cards may be used by all the players in common .
to give an improbable example , if your two face - down cards were a pair of kings , and the common cards were a king , jack and 10 , you would have three kings , a jack and a 10 as your hand at that point . at the same time , if an opponent ' s face - down cards were both spades , and the flop consisted of three spades , that player would have a flush .
after another round of betting , a fourth common card , ' ' fourth street , ' ' is dealt face up , and , again after the betting , a fifth face - up card , ' ' fifth street , ' ' is dealt . after the final bets , if anybody is still in the game , the winning hand is the best five - card combination from the seven available cards .
although it is fun to play on its own , ' ' championship poker ' ' has been designed as a training vehicle to prepare you for the real thing . a sober 40 - page booklet presents detailed statistical information based on millions of computer runs . although no one would be expected to memorize all this information , it can serve as general guidance for building a winning strategy .
the program includes exercises in analyzing the table at a glance . then you can try out your new skills in one of two simulations : a seven - player friendly friday night poker game or an elimination tournament . these simulations do not represent the latest thing in computer graphics , but they are more than adequate for the purpose .
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' ' championship poker ' ' is an excellent teaching program in a category that might , perhaps , be called educational software for adults . it is available for i . b . m . compatibles , the version i used , as well as the apple ii and macintosh . the suggested retail price is $ 34 . 95 . you could drop that amount of money in a flash at the card table .
' ' strategic craps ' ' is another new program in the play and learn to win series . although the basic rules of the game of craps could hardly be simpler , the great variety of ways you can bet can be intimidating , particularly in a fast - paced casino situation .
' ' strategic craps ' ' lets you play at a fairly rudimentary depiction of a casino layout . as with its poker cousin , you can invent and test various betting strategies . it is $ 39 . 95 and is available for the same machines as ' ' championship poker . ' '
the earlier programs in the series were ' ' beating the house at blackjack ' ' and ' ' vegas video poker . ' ' all are produced by applications plus , which has the ironically wholesome address of 15720 harmony way , apple valley , minn . 55124 ; telephone ( 612 ) 432 - 5560 .
i ' m too unpracticed a craps player to suggest which is the better teaching program , but there ' s really no choice , since they run on different machines . judging from the sheer good looks of it , ' ' craps academy ' ' is an outstanding stand - alone game .
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kawai k1 : the sequel - kawai have added onboard effects and a new sound library to their popular k1 synth to produce the k1 ii . ian waugh likes what he hears .
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five years ago the blue nile released an lp that has had the music biz desperate for more . nigel lord waxes lyrical over emotional songs and ill - defined technology .
from a new british company comes a new atari st software sequencer that looks set to rival notator and cubase for power and versatility . the virtuous nigel lord boots it up .
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following the success of the octapad and octapad ii , roland have come down - budget with a midi percussion controller to suit all pockets . simon trask scores a hit .
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commodore ' s amiga computer is the beneficiary of this impressive - and colourful - sequencing package . ian waugh welcomes the illusion .
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the vz8m is the latest application of the synthesis system behind casio ' s popular vz synths . simon trask evaluates ipd synthesis in this age of digital development and analogue reincarnation .
ideally every synth and sampler editor would allow you to edit sounds while your sequencer is running . one that does is this desk accessory for the atari st . vic lennard opens the box .
someone whose career in music began before the invention of the tape recorder will have witnessed a revolution in music technology . peter ridsdale shares the experiences of a man who has spent a lifetime composing for pictures .
tired of digital parameter access synth editing , unimpressed by software editors ? vic lennard looks at a system that allows you to use real sliders to edit your synths .
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