Kev decided to expand his idea to make the defnitive document on cut up music including many other parts, omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from 'Words & Music' specially for this mix in an attempt tomarry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version is ready."

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U B U W E B :: DJ Food

After some generalized comments by Scott Pace, John Connolly presented an overview of the new launch systems and spacecraft that will be used to return American astronauts to the Moon. Much of what Connolly presented had been released with the announcement of the results of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS). However he added new details previously not presented - and offered briefing charts which went into even greater detail.

A detailed article detailing the current vision of the hardware and mission planning involved in the new Exploration Architecture.

A Closer Look at NASA's New Exploration Architecture | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

The White House has approved NASA's ESAS and it will be unveiled publicly on Monday at NASA HQ. As to what it will look like: think Apollo - both for what it will feature - and what it will not feature - as well as how things will look- and how they will work. Mars is only a footnote - a distant one at that.

They just can't seem to get it right, can they?

Rollout Plan for Griffin's Architecture Gains Momentum | NASA Watch

bunnygrrl wrote:
At any rate, I think NASA suffers from the same problems all extremely large bureaucracy do: lack of communication, strident "chains of command" and managers who are more who don't know enough to understand what their subordinates are telling them.

Let's not forget that NASA is a particular form of Govt. bureaucracy that takes its lead from directives from the Executive Branch but gets the actual means to do so from the Legislative. All snarkiness aside, Feynman was spot on during the 51-L investigation. He didn't "play nice" like some commissioners, and called it like he saw it.

I will always give the Shuttle program its due: it is/was a magnificent machine designed under the most schitzophrenic critera of any major engineering project ever. However, the levels of complacency that (IMO) will always exist among cloistered groups of engineers, managers and technicians when they work inside "the only game in town". It took someone like Feynman to call "Bullshit!" on the intellectual lethargy that grows around such stagnant systems.

RE: Personal observations on

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — August 21, 2005 — Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.

Bob was warm and outgoing. He enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. He especially appreciated what Ileana referred to as "the magical connection" between music-makers and their instruments.

A public Memorial Celebration is planned for The Orange Peel for noon, Wednesday, August 24th. Fans and friends can also direct their sympathies or remembrances to Caring Bridge

Bob's family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog@yahoo.com.

We'll miss you Bob.

Robert Moog, RIP

The first installment of the Offnominal Podcast is now available. For this pilot episode, I’ve made a live mix of two previously recorded rehearsals, taking the best segments of each and molding them into a new composite piece entitled FlightDynamics Suite, separated into individual movements in the best prog-rock style. Following on from that are Cfmmmmmma, one of my many excursions into Time Machines-style drones and Ashen, a rough mix of a track culled from the 30 or so currently in process.

Just started podcasting as a remedy to my lack of gigs recently - consider them live shows by proxy. I think the format is going to be flexible, in as much as I could very well talk a bit about audio technology in one episode or play dj in another when I'm not feeling like airing out my own material. If anyone knows of any unsigned or otherwise cool experimental/electronic artists that might want some podcast play, make sure to pass them along to me!

FlightDynamics

An analysis of monies earned by copyright holders in the modern musical world. Not surprisingly, provides powerful ammunition against the RIAA arguement of the monetary loss to artists caused by file-sharing and digital music.

First Monday - Artists' earnings and copyright

] "Music," he explained, "is different" from other
] intellectual property. Not Karl Marx different - this
] isn't latent communism. But neither is it just "a piece
] of plastic or a loaf of bread." The artist controls just
] part of the music-making process; the audience adds the
] rest. Fans' imagination makes it real. Their
] participation makes it live. "We are just troubadours,"
] Tweedy told me. "The audience is our collaborator. We
] should be encouraging their collaboration, not treating
] them like thieves."

Wired 13.02: VIEW - Why Wilco is the Future of Music

] In 2002, a small collection of scrap sounds were
] burned to CD-R and set aside with the intention of
] eventually using them as source material for new works.
] Scrawled on the disc's face were the words "Rawer Than
] Sewage."
]
]
] After sitting on a shelf for 2 years, these sounds are
] now made available for public consumption, manipulation
] and collaboration.
]
]
] The intent in issuing these sounds is to provide an
] opportunity for electronic musicians and sound artists to
] network, interact and collaborate within the flexible
] framework provided by the sounds made available here.
]
]
] Artists are encouraged to use any portion of any sound
] provided on this page to create a new composition. The
] only restriction is that the peices should use only
] sounds from this page - no other sampling permitted. Note
] that this also means that artists can use portions of
] other artists' pieces from this page in your own work.

The Treatment Plant

] The pair were testing a very thin carbon-mesh sail by
] firing microwaves at it. To their surprise, the sail
] experienced a force several times stronger than they
] expected. They eventually worked out that the heat from
] the microwave beam was causing carbon monoxide gas to
] escape from the sail's surface, and that the recoil from
] the emerging gas molecules was giving the sail an extra
] push.

New Scientist: Solar super-sail could reach Mars in a month