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Analogue to digital CD burners
by David Keffer 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

> From: "David Evans" <davidcerievans(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: Analogue to digital CD burners > I'm using Windows XP and I'm looking to get some software that allows me to > record old LPs and cassettes onto my hard drive, edit them and burn them to > CD. To get a vinyl record to cd, this is what I do. 1. Vinyl input (via mixer) to soundcard 2. record as wav file using Creative Labs Wave Recorder 3. edit wav file (remove pops, initial silence, final silence, divide a side of vinyl into individual tracks, etc) using Creative Labs Wave Studio 4. (This step is optional) Convert to mp3 using freeware wav --> mp3 converter 5. burn to cd using Easy CD creator from either wav or mp3 source. The Creative Labs Wave Recorder and Wave Studio came free with my sound card. Or, you use to be able to buy it from the site for $14.99. You can spend a couple hundred dollars on fancy wav editing software to automatically remove pops from vinyl, but I don't think any general algorithm beats visually examining the wav file in Wave Studio and fixing the glitches by hand. For this purpose, any freeware wave editor will suffice. You need lots of RAM though. If you have a 90 minute cassette and you record one side as a wav file, that about 500 MB. You want your editor to manipulate the file exclusively in RAM. If you use virtual RAM (hard-drive space), it is dog slow. So, lots of RAM makes editing large wav files a much more pleasant experience. David K.

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Summer Reading List
by Mark Saleski 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Talk To Me - Anna Deavere Smith part memoir, part editorial....hmmm, kinda hard to describe. (though i do wish i could find a recording of the first thing i ever heard ms. smith doing: being pretty much a master of vocal mimickery (is that a word?) i heard her singing mcdonalds jingles in the voice of billie holiday. Seabiscuit: An American Legend first non-fiction book i've encountered that read like an action-adventure novel Rebel Heart - Bebe Buell ya, it's trashy, it's poorly written. but it's fun. Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser the author of Fast Food Nation ties together the shadow economies of migrant workers, pot growers and porn. scary. Stephen King - Dreamcatcher more icky stuff from mr. king. Epicurean Simplicity - Stephanie Mills another in a series of neo-luddite stuff i'm kinda hooked on Rescuing Patty Hearst - Virginia Holman a memoir of madness in the 70's (cripes, did that sound like a fricken' blurb or what) Nothing On My Mind - Erik Fraser Storlie yet another memoir. the subtitle describes it pretty well: "Berkely, Lsd, Two Zen Masters and a Life on the Dharma Trail Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Rowling a friend of mine wanted to know what all the fuss was about...he had read this and thought it was 'derivative', 'nothing special', etc. i thought it was kinda fun. High and Mighty - Keith Bradsher subtitle also explains it: SUVs -- The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way there was a lot of interesting information here but the editor could have been a little more involved...there was way too much repetition of themes that's it... i'm currently reading Neil Peart's Ghost Rider...an account of the time after losing both his daughter and wife (car crash, cancer).. yikes, it's good by kinda heavy.... next up is something light....so it's either: Peter Guralnick's Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley Vol. 1 or Alice Sebold's _The Lovely Bones_....i actually knew nothing about that book but while on vacation i saw a panel discussion on cspan2 (which me & the wife like to call "nerd tv") of literary critics...man, they were all _so_ snotty about this particular book that i decided i had to read it out of spite ** -- Mark Saleski - marks(a)foliage.com | http://www.foliage.com/~marks "Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power." - Baron Wessenberg

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Re: summer reading list
by Herb Levy 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

"Benito Vergara" <bvergara(a)sfsu.edu> wrote: >Summer's almost done and there's no summer reading list thread yet? =) What >are you Zornlisters reading? Maybe summer's "almost done" for some of you folks with .edu e-addresses, but I count about 8 more weeks of summer looking at the calendar. And here in Texas, every day of those weeks will be pushing 100 degrees F (that's almost 38 degrees for those of you who use Centigrade). In the last couple of weeks, I've had a little too much time to read and not quite enough work, unfortunately. I've recently finished: Eunoia by Christian Bok (there's an umlaut over the o in his last name) - (this is a stylistic tour de force that's also very funny and charming a long narrative poem in five sections, each of which uses ONLY one of the five vowels in the English language, plus some other related writings); Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson (an odd collection of episodes filtering recent American history through a wide array of cultural characters, some real and some fictional, including most of the characters of Gilligan's Island); Agape' Agape by William Gaddis (a very short monologue in the voice of a dying man about, well, sort of about why he never finished writing a book about the player piano as an image for all that went wrong with culture in the last hundred years); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (funny book written from the point of view of an autistic teenager); Vietnam Shadows by Arnold Isaacs ( very good, with a more complex analysis than I'd expected from the recommendation I'd received)); & I also had to/got to read Cold Mountain by Frazier (well written, but boring (I'm not FROM the South) historical novel about the AmericanCivil War) for a book group we're in. I'm taking Joseph McElroy's Actress in the House (from the first couple of chapters it may be the most clearly written in a convention sense of all his books); Lyn Hejinian's Border Comedy ( along non-narrative poem in many sections all of which seem to all of the vowels all the time. For anyone who care, Hejinian is married to ROVA's Larry Ochs, she co-edits a series of books for a press named Atelos with support from Hips Road (the non-profit that also supports Tzadik), & Border Comedy is dedicated to Zorn.); & Lavish Absence by Rosmarie Waldrop (a memoir about her translations of and collaboration with Edmond Jabes) with me on vacation this weekend. When I'm back home in mid-August, I hope to spend some time with Immemory by the French film maker Chris Marker, which is a CD-ROM published by Exact Change, a mainly literary press that also published Morton Feldman's collected writings, which I'd recommend to anyone on this list, even Skip. Zachary Steiner <zsteiner(a)butler.edu> wrote: >I just finished "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino. >Experimental, but very fun to read; not a common combination. It is >also the only book written in second person, that I have read. That book IS fun. There are some other uses of the 2nd person, most that I know of are from the late 20th century, though there could well be earlier works too. Every third chapter of Carlos Fuentes' Death of Artemio Cruz is in the 2nd person. Several other books by Latin American authors from the 1960s-80s may also be written at least in part in the 2nd person. Several novels by Gilbert Sorrentino use the 2nd person as well. In a very different mode, Ron Silliman's Sunset Debris (a long section of his longer work Age of Huts, which in turn is in some way or another part of a longer work that's a prelude to his still unfinished Alphabet) is functionally written in the 2nd person. (It's a long series of questions that accumulate as a kind of interrogation of the reader.) -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb(a)eskimo.com

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RE: summer reading list
by manolis 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Just finished Michel Houelbueq: "Atomised" ("Elementary particles"). I found it fascinating, but it seems that his books are either loved or hated. Anyone has any thoughts on it? Just started "Magic Hoffman" by Jakob Arjouni. Other interesting recent reads: "The Dogs of Riga" by Henning Mankell. Pretty interesting detective story taking place half in a small city in Sweden and half in Riga, depicting the grim social situation, while trying to solve a mystery. J.C. Izzo: "Solea", great great detective set in Marseille. Fabulous characters, great descriptions of the city atmosphere. Michel Houelbueq: "Platform", I liked that one very much as well. manolis

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guitarists
by Simon Calle 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I just want to add: Ali Farka Toure, Brandon Ross, Terje Rypdal. Simon Calle

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Guitarists
by Chris Selvig 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

D Boon Greg Ginn Ted Falconi Thor Eisentrager Tom Hazelmeyer Keiji Haino Eddie Hazel Grant Green Makoto Kawabata Jukebox Seth Josel Alan Licht Keith Rowe Poison Ivy Rorschach Ethan Miller Brad Johnson Rowland S Howard Bo Diddley Link Wray Ron Asheton Thurston Moore Lee Ranaldo Marc Riley Freddie Stone Phelps Collins Tetuzi Akiyama Bruce Russell Tom Herman Chris Selvig

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Re:guitarists...ha
by Maurizio Suppo 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

- i cant believe noone mentioned keiji haino. is he forgotten now? - my god! i have forgot one of my favourite of all time..... i hope that the mighty haino forgive me.....

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i forgot 2 guitarists.....
by amfrequencies＠bigpond.com 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Otomo!! Leonid Soybelman (Kletka Red) 2 noise supremists!! Original Message: ----------------- From: skip Heller velaires(a)earthlink.net Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:19:03 -0700 To: crumpw(a)bellsouth.net, zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: guitarists on 7/31/03 2:02 PM, William Crump at crumpw(a)bellsouth.net wrote: I haven't seen D. Boon on this thread yet (though I read through it too fast). With "If Reagan Played Disco" in one hand and Double Nickels on the Dime in the other, you can fuck anybody's mind permanently. At least mine was. William Crump "Split Red", too (both versions) and the rhythm on "This Ain't No Picnic". sh -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Sam Phillips & Blues artists
by Tosh 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Is there a specific collection of Blues Singers on Sun Records? Most of the stuff I have seen out there are Sun Records samplers (many versions of course) -but none that focused on just the Blues recordings. Also strange enough there weren't any female artists on the samplers(at least the one's I saw), but I did see the Sun Records Female artist sampler. I will pick it up the next time I see it. Besides the obvious greats on that label : Jerry Lee, Cash, Elvis, etc. I really love Carl Mann (and his guitar player is fantastic!) & Sonny Burgress. As for the two-part Elvis bios - it's a must read. And yes, Skip is correct, the second one is one long depressing ride. But then again, all the rockabilly bios I read lately are really sad (i.e. Buddy Holly & Gene Vincent). Especially the Buddy bio - because I think at the moment of his death he could have gone in numerous exciting different directions. One got the impression that he was artistically hungry for change. What a horrible lost. -- Tosh Berman TamTam Books http://www.tamtambooks.com

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Guitarists - two words
by Bruno N 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

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