Birthday Party for Aural Moon......official invitation.

[KeithieW]

Aural Moon 10th anniversary party.

Hello moonbuds and budettes.

As you know Aural moon will be 10 years old on 22nd June 2009 and there is going to be a PARTY to celebrate this momentous occasion on Friday 26th June starting at 5am EST (when the EU moon-listeners will be up and at it.. ) and going on until we collapse from sheer exhaustion……more on that later.

A huge part of the Moon experience is the listeners and so here is the opportunity for you to contribute to the party.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to do a show on air?
Well you can:

1) If you have the capability, record a show with intros, dedications and most importantly music and we can arrange for it to be broadcast. If you want more information on this, PM me and I’ll get back to you with the details.

2) Put together a playlist and send me a PM with the details (and whatever dedications or comments you would like aired) and we will arrange to air it during the day.

The show should be a maximum of one hour in length. We need to have the detail of what you want to play in advance....it could be a bit iffy if everyone chooses, say, Supper’s Ready. I can’t imagine that you’d want to hear that played every hour during the day…..well you might …. but that ain’t gonna happen and in any case we still have to stick (roughly) to the station rules on broadcasting/repeating tracks/artistes.

If you can't manage a whole show, we'd love to have a recording of your “Happy Birthday Aural Moon”...

We're really excited that, for this day we're going to try and broadcast your shows and dedications live from a secret location somewhere in the South of the UK (OH, you guessed where already?).

So, if you send a playlist and dedications – they will be read out live on the air (possibly a First for AM)!!!

Now why exhaustion???

Well, the last time Aural Moon threw a party was 5 years ago and some of us Faffed for 36 hours straight... It was an amazing time with buds and budettes coming and going throughout the day and pre recorded shows airing. Great fun was had by all and the constant banter in the chat room and shoutbox was often hysterical.

This year's party has the potential to exceed the last one so get thinking about what you want to play.

If you’re happy to just let us, others and SAM do it then that’s fine too.

Sit back, crack open a few beers and enjoy the ride.

[ErikM]

Damn, on that day (26th of june) I'm going to marry and there will be no time for Aural Moon.

[mailotron]

I won' t be at home that day :-(

[mossy]

Congratulations though Erik :winkies:

Keithie, first off I thought dang! Friday...working and can't do the Moon.

Then I remembered I won't be at work, but it's still a dang because I'll be away in the land where puters don't exist (Mum's house).

Am bummed.

Enjoy it peeps

[roger]

on the calendar!!

[jtmckinley]

Hey Keithie, long time no read! Okey doke, I'm sure I can come up with an hour's worth o'tunes and I have the ability to record stuff, be it intros or whatever, but I guess my question is what format and does the Moon need multiple files or one big long file or whatever? Enquiring minds want to know...

Jim (err one of the other Jims of course)

[JamForte]

I'm sure I can come up with an hour's worth o'tunes and I have the ability to record stuff, be it intros or whatever, but I guess my question is what format and does the Moon need multiple files or one big long file or whatever?

Firstly, for anyone who's making a program, Thanks! All of us associated with the station know how much time & effort it takes.

OK, The technical/production side;

I realize that's there's a whole range of technical ability out there ; so please don't think I'm trying to teach my Grandmother to Suck Eggs...

Vax, Jim and/or Dr. Dot might wish to add to this...

a/ your top priority should be to get the playlist the Keithie -- common track requests will be "first come, first served" exactly like SAM. probably best not to spend ages perfecting a show, only to find that someone else has already baggsied all the tracks...

b/ Please indicate time range(s) that you'd like the program aired -- after 05:00 EDT on the 26th and preferably before 05:00 EDT on the 27th ;) Please be flexible, we can't all be on at once!

c/ If you are making a program complete with announcements that you record yourself:

The format for the recordings is 192kb/s Stereo MP3, with V3.2 ID tags.

Whether you choose to make separate tracks or a monolithic file depends probably on how your material is sourced and what you want to do. We can accept either.

(i) If most of the material you want to play is already on the moon - then it's probably easiest for you to record just your announcements and rip any additional tracks you need.

(ii) If most of the material you intend to play is not on the moon - or you want to do fancy cross-fades or something like that - then a monolithic track is probably going to be easiest.

d/ Ripping/Processing tracks.

If you're processing tracks ; normalizing levels is fine - but probably better to leave off any compression - since the station software might wish to apply that itself.

What you do with your voice is up to you - but my 0.02euros says "Mega-FM compression doesn't sound good on Internet Streaming" (but that's an opinion not a technical fact)

If you're ripping your favorite "never-been-committed-to-CD" vinyl -- then the mastering job is your own (of course).

e/ when people start to get stuff ready - we'll sort out upload destinations.

f/ For people who are NOT recording voice but submitting a playlist and a dedications script for your trusty DJs to read out.

Any tracks not on the moon -- you will probably still have to rip (rulez as above). You could check with Keithie or me if we already have them ... but the moon's collection is waaaaay larger than mine ;)

g/ For people who are just going to record a "Happy Birthday Aural Moon" message ;

I can deal with pretty much any audio format as input - but please make sure your voice is nice and loud, that you say who you are - and try and keep away from the computer's fans while you're recording!!!

any more questions - I'll add to this or you can PM me directly.

[DamoXt7942]

Thanks KW but I'll not always be home at Friday night (in Japan)...
So I'll join the party at the time I can be here. :notworthy

And...as possible, I'll send you my (terrible) video mail or picture. :thumbsup: :doncab

[Avian]

Sounds awesome!!! I'm going to record a message, and you guys can play it in rotation as you see fit.

So... we need a list of songs about Time!!! Post them here!

[Roger -Dot- Lee]

And I have just been informed that I am going to be out of town (work) that weekend. I'll stick my nose in when I can, however.

[Yesspaz]

So... we need a list of songs about Time!!! Post them here!I think Pink Floyd has a song called "Time," but I'm not sure.

[jtmckinley]

ok if it's still on I'd say

e/ when people start to get stuff ready - we'll sort out upload destinations.

is upon us.

waiting for godot...

[JamForte]

OK. jMC here -- I've just been faffing on the phone with Keithie ..
.... and he can't get online until very late today....
.... so we need to shake down the running order for tomorrow.

The response has been FANTASTIC! thank you all :D

Here is the provisional list:
Please Please check your times... and if there's a problem SHOUT ...

(BST is listed 'cos that's the studio's TZ and we don't expect to be able to keep track of time after all the beer)

24 hour clock -- it gets waaaay to confusing otherwise ; and, of course, the times in the early morning relate to the 27th..

TIME-TABLE (http://auralmoon.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=383&stc=1&d=1245930203)

.. after this? who knows.. maybe a return to Live Mayhem... :-)

The Listener Shows are around an hour each ...

= About our slot ...

Keith and Jam will substitute for SAM for 3 hours ...
... spinning a few disks of not to be found on the moon ..
... and taking live requests and dedications (in case you have a last minute pang of guilt at not putting something in).

Hope to see you all tomorrow,
Jam

[JamForte]

Here's a couple of shots of your DJs... and the studio...

Note that we have an additional Listener Show from jtmckinley which will air at 12:00 EDT thanks!


Jam

[Rick and Roll]

Jam nice to hear from you...

I would pop in and say hi, but I'm away this weekend. 27 hours of faff five years ago was one of the most fun times I've had...

have fun everyone!

[KeithieW]

Our Very Own Jim opened proceedings with the following fantastic intro ... which played up to the magic time of 05:00 EDT

Chance - Countdown
Rush - Countdown
Allan Holdsworth - Countdown

=== we then switched to the live feed for.....

... first tracks of the day which were:

Hatfield and the North - Mumps - from The Rotter's Club ( for our friend Kazuhiro san )
Celebration - Premiata Forneria Marconi - Live in the USA ( for Lotus )
expresso - Gong - from Gazeuse! (for Jim ... who was up v. late)
Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani ( for Roger - Dot - Lee )
Sunburst Finish - Utopia - Ra (for Ramon - the moon's sun king)

after which we switched back to SAM while we negotiated with the Aliens for Keithie's release...

==== next up was Lotus

Lotus's Show:
Beethoven Choral Fantasy in C minor - Lotus' show.

Lotus writes "
I grew up in Barcelona, I lived there from 1963 to 1977 and my prog roots are certainly there. Barcelona was the "must stopover" for many of the big prog groups and the city was full of faboulous local groups. Therefore I would like to dedicate this tune to maybe the most exciting city of the world (at least of the ones I know) on this day on which we celebrate the most exciting prog staion in the world
"

Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Monseratt Cabaille. - Lotus' Show

We helped SAM along with RQs wherever they came in...
Including:
Astronomy Domine - David Gilmour (Live)
Nahavishnu Orchestra - A Lotus On Irish Streams

[Ted]

Jam and KW,

Can you post the playlists for the shows? Give us a preview of coming attractions?

Just curious.

Thanks,
Ted

[JamForte]

the sound of two bricks banging together --- specially for Brian - VaxMan - Schenkenberger .. without out whom we would not be on the air..


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[KeithieW]

Eloy's playlist:

BJH - Mocking bird
Atomic Rooster - VUG
Planet P Project - Static
Yes - Everydays
Eloy - Through a Sombre Galaxy
Saga - Careful where you step
Caravan - Golf Girl
Quidam - We lost
UK - Rendezvous 6:02
GLOW - Ooh Yeahhhh!!!!

Thanks Steve.....a terrific show. Really enjoyed it.

[KeithieW]

After Eloy's show we had:

Brian Eno - Energy fools the magician.
Frank Zappa - Peaches in Regalia.
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
The Tangent - Lost in London

[KeithieW]

JTMcinley's show:

Excellent set of tracks.

Porcupine Tree - Signify - Born Live Die
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - Blackest Eyes
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia - Trains
Jeff Beck - Wired - Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming - Rollin' And Tumblin'
Jeff Beck - You Had It Coming - Nadia
Chad Wackerman - Legs Eleven - Tangara
Chad Wackerman - Legs Eleven - Balancing Acts
One Shot - Ewaz Vader - Fat

[JamForte]

what on earth?????

http://auralmoon.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=391&stc=1&d=1246036809

[NorCalKurt]

wtf

[Wojtek]

Crap phone quality but here is Woj celebrating. Here's to AM!!

[KeithieW]

Rogor Mortis' MADNESS!!!! LOL!

01. Carpark North - [Carpark North #01] Homeland
02. Bernardo Lanzetti - [I Sing The Voice Impossible CD1 #01] Radio Shanghai
03. Peter Hammill - [Thin Air CD1 #02] Your Face On The Street
04. Monty Python - [Monty Python Sings CD1 #08] Finland (Monty Python Sings)
05. IQ - [Frequency Tour CD CD2 #09] One Fatal Mistake (Extended)
06. Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - [Hour Moon CD1 #05] Henry & James (Keyboad 'Flexidisc' Mix)
07. Fruitcake - [Room For Surprise CD1 #09] A Whisper
08. Joanne Hogg - [Rafael's Journey #09] Life Is Precious
09. Martigan - [Vision CD1 #04] Touch In Time
10. Tangerine Dream - [Flame CD1 #05] Timeless
11. Napoleon XIV - [The Second Coming CD1 #03] They're Coming To Take Me Away, HA-HAAA!

[KeithieW]

After Mortis played there was:
Ommadawn Part One - Mike Oldfield (For the wonderful Avian)
Harlequin and Columbine - Mario Millo
Echoes - Camel
Book of Saturday - King Crimson
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd (For the Amazing VAXman)
Stonehenge - Spinal Tap.

[KeithieW]

Keithie's Ramblings:

Skimming Stones - Also Eden
South Side of the Sky - Cairo
Angel Wings - Focus
Turn of the Century - Steve Howe and Annie Haslam
Beechwood Park, Brief Candles and Hung up on a Dream - The Zombies
Levitation - Hawkwind.

==== while Keithie gave up the Hot Seat so that Laxmi could Squeeze in for her set.

We played:

Leaf and Stream - Wishbone Ash (for our dear and very talented friend and Polish progster - Wojtek)

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[JamForte]

Prog Devi.. at the controls...


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[RogorMortis]

Caught in the act at the party




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[KeithieW]

Laxmi's set:

Heat of the Moment (live) - John Wetton with Steve Hackett.
Mind Drive - Yes
Samba pa ti - Santana
Serpentine song - Steve Hackett
Om nama Shivaya - Steve Hillage (for Thor)

Great set Laxmi.

[VAXman]

There's Guinness on the moon!

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[KeithieW]

Keithie's mini set:

Love is the answer - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes Live at Wembly 26/10.78 (for TLS Pam)
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis (for Bro-in-law Alan, Happy Birthday BiL :) )

[Ted]

Here I am - Enjoying Aural Moon's 10th Birthday party from my study!!

Regards from Texas,
Ted

[KeithieW]

Kraftwerk - Vom Himmel Hoch (for YesSpaz)
Tonto's Expanding Headband - Riversong (for our analogue synth lovers ... including moonweed)
Dashiell Hedayat (and most of Gong) - Chrysler, Fille de l'ombre
Daevid Allen - I'm a bowl
Gryphon - Le cambrioleur est dans le mouchoir (for Poda)
Be Bop Deluxe - No Trains to Heaven (Axe Victim), Modern Music Suite (Modern Music) (for Rob in California)

[KeithieW]

Moth Vellum - Warm against the suns
Touchstone - Joker in the pack
Supertramp - Even in the quietest moments (for absent Mossy)
Jack Foster III - No tears left for crying (for absent Rick)
Kula Shaker - Govinda (for absent Thor)

[KeithieW]

Requests from the Ohio Girls.

Renaissance - Mother Russia (Live at the RAH)_ For EMoonGirl
The Flower Kings - Adam and Eve_For TankGirl

[VAXman]

I'm feeling light-headed up here...

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[VAXman]

Some of this stuff is taking me Wayback...

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[KeithieW]

sharcnorris' Show:

Mike Oldfield - Sheba
Mike Oldfield - Taurus 1
Ant Phillips - God if I saw her now.
Genesis - Duke saga
*****************
Behind the lines
Duchess
Guide Vocal
Man of our times
Duke's Travels
Duke's End

***************

Brand X - ....and so to F

An excellent set Marc,

[VAXman]

SHocking...

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[KeithieW]

Next batch:
Caravan - The last unicorn (from Better by Far)
Little Atlas - Weariness rides
ELP - From the beginning
Paul Winter Consort - Ode to a Filmour Dressing Room

[MrMagoo]

Faff-dom achieved.

[NorCalKurt]

Happy Birthday Moon, from the road.

[roger]

and me! happy birthday, AMoon!!!

[OverHillandDale]

Happy Birthday from Hot'lanta
(and I mean hot and humid!!!)

overhillandDALE

[JamForte]

Geeks Corner:

Actually, Murphy called on us twice yesterday (... but we got away with it, mostly).

1/
Minutes before we were due to put Keithie on air (as we were sorting him out for some pix) the 19" Mitsubishi monitor on Laxmi's computer (Which Keith and Laxmi were using during their broadcasts) went black - and the computer went off --- power distribution block fuze blown.

It turned out that the monitor actually chose *that* moment ( in it's 8 or so year life ) to fail - and we had to swap it out hastily with a 17" LCD panel, and restart...

A few tense moments there.

2/

We used Nicecast to stream from the studio here in the UK to the station in the USA. This is inexpensive software and it worked like a charm reliability-wise -- streaming a steady 22 odd hours without a glitch. However, for my purposes, and in my opinion, it's DJ monitoring facilities are not great. We have to be our own engineers (someone needs to listen to the feed to make sure the balance is OK).

I personally hate listening to my voice delayed by any appreciable amount ... and fiddle though I did... I couldn't find a way of getting rid of this reliably .. so if I sound slurred ... I'd like to blame the wine... but chances are it's more to do with listening to my own voice delayed by a few hundred milliseconds.

Maybe the package can't do it... maybe the manual is not complete .. I dunno, but it is an irritation to say the least.

If I can't sort that out before a next event .. I'm seriously considering trying the streaming server built into OSX Server and just using the studio here to do the mixes (although there are some very DJ-friendly bells & whistles on Nicecast - they are negated by that above)

... but "next time" is probably a away aways .... and who knows what will be available then eh?

In spite of those two glitches .. actually the day was pretty stress-free technically -- we got into the swing of counting down minutes until we were live to air (and had to moderate behavior .. at least a little) and the setup was really easy to use (delay aside). I need to try and get everything on the 30" screen -- using 3 computers made it difficult to chat as much as I'd have liked.. as you'll see - there were quite a few open and active windows.....

-----

I had:
A tunnel to the Station's SQL server (to search for request tracks) without having to disturb SAM
A tunnel to the Station for the stream feed..
A tunnel to the Station CLI to allow me to copy over key tracks if we needed to feed them from here...
ftp connect (up & down) shifting odd tracks around (not much on the day)
A VNC connection to the station control panel.
A tunnel to the webserver (just in case)
The website * 2 (one for me one for Keithie)
The windows for Nicecast (3 + a popup)
The windows for the Studio DAW...

all of the tunnel connections are nice and secure!

We don't have an impressive network connection like the Vaxman (that kind of bandwidth is still prohibitively expensive in the UK) -- that little lot above had to make do with a 8000/400 asymmetric ADSL connection routed via a 2-wire combined router-modem and gigaswitch. So we were a bit leery about deciding to download tracks mid-program.

thanks to Vaxman's excellent setup on the various servers.. it all went (from that perspective) without a hitch.. Thanks again Brian.

I had a huge amount of fun, thanks to you all, especially Jim for having the nerve to let us loose with such a dangerous toy :D

Jam/Iain.

[KeithieW]

norcalkurt's show:

I picked stuff from The Gagliarchives top albums from each year, for the past 10 years or so. Listed in order, starting in 1999 and ending in 2009.

1) Djam Karet, The Devouring, The River of No Return
2) Nathan Mahl, Clever Use of Shadows, Machiavelique
3) Transatlantic, SMPT:e,We All Need Some Light
4) McGill- Manning- Stevens, Addition By Subtraction, Euzkadi
5) Deus Ex Machine,Cinque, Olim Sol Roqavit Terrami
6) Kiapa,Keyholder, Across The Big Uncertain
7) White Willow, Storm Season, Storm Season
8) The Mars Volta, Francis The Mute, The Window
9) Pure Reason Revolution, The Dark Third, Goshens Remains
10) Porcupine Tree, Fear of a Blank Planet, Fear of a Blank Planet
11) IQ, Frequency, Closer

So, there it is, I hope you like it. As far as something said, My best wishes to all the Moon folk out there and to all the great people I've met here. Enjoy these songs that represent the past ten years of Aural Moon. Happy Anniversary Aural Moon.

After this we played:

Velvet Green (Live at the BBC) - Jethro Tull
One WHite Duck ; 0^10 = nothing at all - Jethro Tull

and then ... at not far away from 5 before 3 AM (BST)

Fred the Fish - Daevid Allen - from Bananamoon

Vax Q'd
Echolyn - Memoirs from Between

[KeithieW]

OHD's show:

1 - How About A Little Fanfare? - Todd Rundgren - Todd - Track 1 - 1974

2 - I Think You Know - Todd Rundgren - Todd - Track 2 - 1974

3 - The Spark Of Life - Todd Rundgren - Todd - Track 3 - 1974

4 - An Elpee's Worth Of Toons - Todd Rundgren - Todd - Track 4 - 1974

5 - Ball De Les Fulles - Iceberg - Sentiments - Track 4 - 1977

6 - Painforest - Secret Oyster - Sea Son - Track 5 - 1974

7 - "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" - Yes - Time And A Word - Track 1 - 1968

8 - "No Harm, No Foul" - Mindwalk - Won - Track 4 - 2005

9 - Opel - RPWL - Start The Fire: RPWL Live - Track 2 - 2005

10 - Penumbra - Bennie Maupin Ensemble, The - Penumbra - Track 5 - 2006

11 - Ocean Gypsy - Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall (disc 1) - Track 2 - 1976

[KeithieW]

We snuck in the following pre-cursors to Ted's show

Jim's suggestion :
Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon

Tarkus - ELP

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Ted's show:

What Aural Moon Means To Me – by Ted Neil, Texas Ted!

Spoken (Read): I have only been a member for 2 years… but in that time, I have learned a lot about what community is from being a part of Aural Moon. My first song, has the line “very few folks in focus” – and that is the antithesis of what Aural Moon is. Everyone is in Focus.

Song #1 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Works 1, “Hallowed Be Thy Name”, 4:37

I have learned SO MUCH from Aural Moon as well. I didn’t realize that PROG contains so many fields and ideas. For example my next two songs show that Science Fiction and Prog can combine to create GREAT music. The first is by Jon Anderson, and it is from his first solo album, Olias of Sunhillow. The whole album tells a wonderful sci-fi story.

Song #2 Jon Anderson, Olias of Sunhillow, “Flight of the Moorglade”, 3:24

Continuing the sci-fi theme, come Rush’s classic from the pen of Neil Peart, from the Moving Pictures album. Can you see yourself racing along?

Song #3 Rush, Moving Pictures, “Red Barchetta”, 6:08

And in PROG, you can combine Mathematics – well, not literally, yet, then again, maybe so. We all know about Algebra, right! Let X=X… to begin. The breadth of the Aural Moon library is AMAZING. Let’s listen to a song from Laurie Anderson’s Big Science album:

Song #4 Laurie Anderson, Big Science, “Let X=X”, 3:54

And not to top Laurie, but if you can sing about mathematics, then let the Mathematicians play for you… here is a cover of Frankenstein by Edgar Winter – with their own fusion twist… all brought to you by the 10th Anniversary of Aural Moon! Long live PROG! Long Live Aural Moon!

Song #5 Mathematicians, Factor of Four, “Bride of Frankenstein”, 3:52

While we are in the “having fun” mood, let’s play a couple of songs that are just fun.. no seriousness at all to them. One is by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (who’d figured I’d chose an ELP!!) This song, has a title that was originally used for an album, but wasn’t released until the Works 2 album. I didn’t realize the meaning of the title, or what it means, until enlightened by VAX on Aural Moon. Isn’t this a WONDERFUL place!!

Song #6 ELP, Works 2, “Brain Salad Surgery”, 3:10

And let’s follow it up with a “fun” song from the latest Keith Emerson Band album. This is a song, at least to me, in the vein of “Jeremy Bender” and “Benny the Bouncer”.

Song #7 Keith Emerson Band, KEB, “Gametime”, 2:39

To move on to a more serious note, PROG has even been an outlet for my faith, as I have listened and appreciated Moses and his show “Fusion Reactor”. Two songs from the Aural Moon collection that show a combination of Faith and Prog are coming next:

Song #8 Neal Morse, ?, “Solid As the Sun”, 6:10

Since Neal Morse left Spock’s Beard, he has not lost his prog roots, as can be seen on that song. Also a song of faith, is from the group Visual Cliff:

Song #9 Visual Cliff, Key to Eternity, “Romans 10”, 6:06

And winding things down, slowing them down just a bit, wrapping them up actually, two final songs. One reflects what Aural Moon means to me… It makes me so happy, that at times, I want to dance… and really, I am not a dancer – two left feet and all…

Song #10, Andreas Vollenweider, Down to the Moon, “Moon Dance”, 4:12

And the final song, what PROG means to me – long songs that tell a story, wonderful music, and EXCELLENT vocals. Here is a song that Jon Anderson sings so well. Happy Birthday Aural Moon and to all the Moonies who make this such a special place.

Song #11, Jon & Vangelis, The Friends of Mr. Cairo, “The Friends of Mr. Cairo”, 12:11

PROG ON AURAL MOON!!

We then Played out with:

Canyons of your Mind - Bozo Dog Do Da Band
Constant Bloom - Moon Safari
Forge of Vulcan - Hawkwind
Anne Boleyn - Rick Wakeman
God Eat God - Tinyfish
Bitter Suite (from Misplaced Childhood) - Marillion
Spirit of the Water - Camel

*** TWEEET ***
*** HOOT ***
A Duck Exploding - Brand-X (for our good friend BMithra)

(for the Aural Moon Community)

It's Down to You - Colosseum II's excellent cover of the Joni Michel song (from Strange New Flesh)

and we wrapped up with Brian's excellent suggestion:

(for the Aural Moon Community)
The End - Beatles - Abbey Road


We had such a lot of fun ...

==== after this Jim took over DJ-ing with SAM - - he'll have to post his plays if he remembers...

[JamForte]

We think the played list and the dedications made are complete.
(you'll have to read through the whole day to find 'em all)

I'm afraid I probably forgot one or two of the requests I Q'd directly on the Station ... if you made a request, and we played it.. and I haven't mentioned it... then speak up and it shall be added...

what a buzz!
Jam & Keithie

[roger]

you guys were great!! thanks for all your hard work!!!

[KeithieW]

I just want to say what a great day (and night) we had at the 10th Anniversary party.

I got there a little later than planned because those aliens from the Dark side of the Moon wouldn't release me because Jam only had a fiver and they wanted a tenner. I managed to escape though and made it to Jam's home studio at about 11:10am. Things were already underway and after Jam had shown me to my "station" we started in earnest. Murphy and his law reared his ugly head as the Screen on the machine I was working on died and had to be replaced. We got over that one though.

Laxmi the prog devi supplied loads of coffee and treats throughout the day and even stepped up to the mike to present her own slot. Very lovely it was too.

Getting used to the equipment wasn't too bad but those damned headphones got uncomfortable over the 19 hours we were on-air.

We broadcast some tracks and let SAM take over for a while but it was doing the Moonies' shows that I liked the most.

lotus, eloy1964, Rogor Mortis, jtmccinley, sharcnorris, norcalkurt, OHD and Ted all contributed shows and bloody good they were too.

Jam, Laxmi and I did a longish slot at about 3pm EDT and had a great time doing it. We played some stuff that wasn't on the Moon and judging by the response in the shoutbox you all seemed to like them which was great.

The whole thing lasted about 19 hours and we finally called in a night/morning/day?? at about 6:45am our time. Tired but elated.

A huge thank you to Jam who's technical nowse was AWESOME DUDE!!!! Thanks too to Laxmi for food and drink and generally being lovely.

Jim, VAXman, Dr Dot and all other Aural Moon management for keeping the place alive for 10 years.

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Massive thanks to the community for being such an amazing part of my life. I DO love you all and I thank the stars that I found you.

Let's do it again some time, eh????

[jtmckinley]

Many thanks to JamForte and KeithieW for holding down the fort and shepherding us through a wonderful day (and night) on the Moon, great job guys!

To Keithie:

BTW Keithie it's jtmckinley as in James T. McKinley, not jtmccinley or jtmcinley. K! K as in Keithie!, you misspelled it twice in this thread LOL. K?

To Iain:

Thanks for laying out how you guys did the show, good info for muso geeks like me :)

You experienced the bane of digital recording with the 100+ ms delay on your voice, that's always a problem with a DAW (and apparently with Nicecast as well) to varying degrees, but there are solutions. Not sure what gear you have in your studio (I saw what looked to be a Roland drum kit, I have the TD-20 BK myself, dunno about your audio interfaces), but the best way is a sound card or other AD/DA device that lets you monitor direct off the card, the EMU 1212 is a relatively inexpensive example:

http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?product=9872

To wit: "PatchMix™ DSP zero-latency hardware mixing and monitoring - with super-flexible patchbay - no external mixer needed" is the relevant bit

I usually don't bother to do it with SONAR since my latency is usually < 50 ms, but I have singer and drummer friends that can't even deal with that, so I've used the direct monitor on my Focusrite preamp in the past. The nice thing about the EMU card (just got one for upstairs) is that it has on-board FX too so you can give a singer a little "love" with reverb and delay on their mix even when it's a direct monitor (plus it's a pretty cheap card with good converters, same as in the Pro Tools 192, I've seen it for $79 online). Also the patch bay software on the 1212 is pretty cool, I can record anything that produces sound on my computer upstairs.

Thanks again!

jt

[JamForte]

Thanks for the comments :)
(and sorry about the typos, it's as likely they're mine as Keithie's -- I edited some of the thread -- rest assured, we both have your name correct when speaking).



You experienced the bane of digital recording with the 100+ ms delay on your voice, that's always a problem with a DAW (and apparently with Nicecast as well) to varying degrees, but there are solutions.



What you noted above is different between a "self-engineered live performance" and a recording session.

When recording, I can give every member of a band a different "zero-latency" headphone mix - (mostly MOTU outboard gear here). That is fine, even if I'm one of the players - because the final processed mix is done from a multi-tracked recording (so who cares what delays are introduced by FX and so on).

In this case we were live - and needed to listen to the final mix ( no luxury of a separate mixing engineer ;) ) - and even though I'd set the DAW (and system) audio buffers to circa 6ms - some plugin, effect or aspect of Nicecast was upsetting that by adding its own latency.

I could have added a "zero-delay" feed to bypass this but, obviously, all that does is to give a false impression of the balance (and one of echo) on the final mix.

The effect was noted "for the record" (and because people expressed an interested in what we were using to do the show). It was a minor (and geeky) irritation that didn't stop the fun of the day at all..

cheers,
Jam

[MrMagoo]

A tunnel to the Station's SQL server (to search for request tracks) without having to disturb SAM
A tunnel to the Station for the stream feed..
A tunnel to the Station CLI to allow me to copy over key tracks if we needed to feed them from here...
ftp connect (up & down) shifting odd tracks around (not much on the day)
A VNC connection to the station control panel.
A tunnel to the webserver (just in case)
The website * 2 (one for me one for Keithie)
The windows for Nicecast (3 + a popup)
The windows for the Studio DAW...
all of the tunnel connections are nice and secure!


Did you play any Tunnels?