The saving grace may be the low power radio stations that have popped up
all over the place. The Feds freed up licenses for LP stations about 8
years ago and they have been proliferating. We have at least two
currently on Maui, both of which have a whopping 50 watts of broadcast
power (which means line-of-sight reception only). One of them, Mana'o
Radio - KEAO-LP 91.5 FM - not only allows it's sometime quirky DJs to
program all their own material, and has a streaming website, but has a
studio where they not only broadcast live but record material both live
and for release as well. No disc cutters, though! Yet.
Mal
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Robert Cham wrote:
> Unfortunately it's not only it's not only the advance of technology
> that governs the making of recordings. Radio stations used to make a
> lot of the live recordings. The move away from broadcasting any music
> not interesting to the average 12 year old and copyright issues have
> severely limited this practice. The last copyright law revision in
> particular, has caused almost as many problems for recording as for
> webcasting.
>
> Bob Cham
>
>
>> << a classical pianist once, when the man
>>> was in his 70's. Somehow we got on the subject of how he'd be
>>> remembered
>>> and he glumly noted that
>>> his recordings would stand far longer than the experience of seeing
>>> him in
>>> concert. Yet, he had
>>> spent thousands more hours performing in concert -- and he believed
>>> he had
>>> performed every single
>>> work he had done best in concert -- than in front of microphones
>>> making
>>> records. So you can see how
>>> this is the classic example of "sampling" first-person experiences and
>>> calling it history. >>
>>>
>> Do we know definitively if some of these live performances were in
>> some way
>> recorded? As electronic media advance, more and more recordings of
>> events, communications and images will exist and many will hopefully get
>> preserved.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Dave Radlauer
>> www.JAZZHOTBigstep.com
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