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| A Guide to Kalvos & Damian |
Kalvos & Damian is a new music broadcast/cybercast with archives and composer resources. We host guests and play interesting new music off the beaten eartrack. But our goal is to do more than just entertain ... we provide musical insight from our many guest composers and even ourselves. We two host composers, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and David Gunn, provide extensive on-line support for research into the latest compositions and ideas, work with educational groups to provide on-line mentoring for students with important composers from around the world, and keep a good sense of humor.
Browse our site, or read our funding report, which details our projects and budget. Autumn is fundraising season for us -- please help.
| Guests 100 -- Visitors 100,000 |
On September 15, Kalvos & Damian celebrates four years of presenting new music on the Internet -- granddaddies of the technology! We're in the middle of our fifth broadcast year as well, and by the end of August we'd played over 4,200 pieces of music and interviewed 110 guest composers. What started as a summer replacement show has grown into a new music community.
In April 1996 we installed our Honest Abe Web Counter. In other words, even though Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar contains over 550 web pages and 3,000 separate files, visitors are only counted once, or when their browser cache is emptied. We may not gather a million visits a day like CNN, but we're grateful to all 103,000-plus of you for visiting us in the past three years, and we hope you'll explore all our features.
| K&D T-Shirt Design Contest! |
Kalvos & Damian need shirts! So we're holding our first T-Shirt Design Contest. The prize is a bucket of new music goodies, all the recognition you can stand, and our undying concern for your sanity. Check out the official rules and gory details, and then do your worst! Deadline is October 1, so jump right in!
| Board of Advisors |
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar established its Board of Advisors in September 1998. The Board -- all of them composers -- provides assistance and suggestions in matters of funding, publicity, and distribution, offers suggestions on composers to interview and cities to visit for interviews, and helps with problems. Our board consists of composers and active listeners to new music. We welcome two new members beginning in September 1999: David Cleary of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Phil Kline of New York City.
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| Village Voice features K&D |
K&D were puffed up with delight at a story that appeared in the Village Voice, one of America's premier weekly newspapers. Written by Kyle Gann, it touched us in all the right spots, calling us "far and away the Web's best new music resource," and featuring many of the composers who have been guests, and leading with Jeff Harrington. He also said that we "have filled out a multidimensional musical world utterly free from the taint of academicism". Whew! We like that part!
But don't let us pat ourselves on the pates; read the whole story in The Sound Bytes of Truth at http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/9927/gann.shtml.
| K&D Ought-One Festival |
Plans have just been set in motion on a suggestion from new board member Phil Kline: A 2001 festival of music created by and presented by as many Kalvos & Damian guests as we can pack into Vermont for a week. We'll need advice, ideas, help, funding -- and we want to hear from you. We're calling it the Ought-One Festival ... and beyond knowing it'll be a week of incredible & insane music in lovely Vermont, we're wide open for ideas!
| Remember that we're now kalvos.org |
Back in June, our new homepage, kalvos.org began trickling down nameservers worldwide. Still hosted by both Malted/Media and Goddard College, Kalvos & Damian now has an easy-to-remember home as kalvos.org. Please spread the word! Just enter "kalvos.org" into your browser! Oh... and we also have a new postal address due to E-911 changes in Vermont. We are now Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield Vermont 05663 USA.
| Our Saturday cybercasts continue |
Now available for well over a year, the K&D weekly live cybercast has become very popular.
You can hear Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar live on-line every Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 pm Eastern Time with this link (which also cybercasts WGDR-FM during its normal 18-hour broadcast day). This link will always be available from K&D's home page. Our composer music and interview samples are also streaming nicely. We use RealAudio, which gets good audio streams to most users. Get a RealAudio player for your system either from our download page or from Real Networks. If you like mp3 and have a good Internet connection, check out the WGDR-FM home page for a link to the ShoutCast stream.
| Our archived shows are your greatest resource |
Listenership continues strong for K&D's archived programs. The main body of archived music and interviews come down the Internet "pipe" courtesy of Goddard College. You can see an index of these archives at our shows page.
There are nearly 200 shows now. Here are some of the interviews programs you can hear:
There are special show topics without guests, too: Atonality, funny music, marches, electronic music, a Webern celebration, piano and string quartets, music of the 1980s, Vermont Composers Festival, the odd "wimmintune" in two parts, unique instrumentation, New York composers, "ears over easy", music of war & stress, dance music, unusual combos, recent classics, rhythmic music, music for voices, Our Golden Age, music for winds, renting orchestras, homage to John Cage, tribute to Conlon Nancarrow, choruses, a two-week Electroacoustic Music Week special, political music, the Golden Bruce award, and an impeachment festival of marches and dances.
The complete list of these shows if found at our KalvoNet page, and the new shows are always announced on the K&D homepage. These new shows will shortly include interviews with other composers joining us this fall -- we keep up as we can!
There are, however, some changes in U.S. law (the Millennium Copyright Act) which may make these programs scarce. We'll see; the most stringent restrictions don't go into effect for a while, and in the meantime we're scrambling to get archiving clearances for every piece. We'll keep you updated, and in the meantime, be sure to be listening.
| Updated resources always need volunteer hands |
Our Music Resources for Composers and Music Resources by Composers are suffering from lack of hands. When we began this project in 1995, we could barely find a hundred resources for and by composers. Now there are thousands, and we're unable to keep up. Our composer references were updated in July, but some of our resource links are over a year old. Volunteers are needed to make these pages useful again. Please click here and see if you can rustle us up some help!
The web is expanding beyond our ability to keep up with it as we had, and it's a great disappointment for us to fall behind with this, since K&D was the definitive site for new music links for the first three years of its existence. We have been graced by research from composers David Robert Stewart and Prof. William Harris, who helped us post a refreshed 2,000-link resource collection last June, but we're months and months behind schedule on our latest updates. With current update submissions, more than a third of the resource list will be entirely new for next month.
Are you available to research a few pages and update links? Do you have students looking for some research work? Please check our resource pages to see what we need, and then contact Contact Form.
| Funds needed very much |
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a very costly project for we two producers. K&D's fiscal agent is the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, a 501(c)3 organization, and gifts to K&D are tax-deductible to the extent allowed. We are not presently funded by government or corporate grants, and only private contributions let the program continue, along with facilities generously provided by WGDR-FM and Goddard College. You are invited to read our 1998 report to contributors (PDF document).
Please offer your support. For more information, contact us by email, or just write out your check to "Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar" and send it to us at 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA. Gifts of DATs, blank CD-Rs, chrome cassettes, Zip disks, some nice traveling microphones, and other supplies -- as well as help with research and maintenance -- are also welcome.
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| Do you want to return as a guest? |
After a tightly scheduled 1999 summer season (a guest in our studio nearly every week), our interview hours are now opening up for the fall. We have already had some returning guests and we'll have some open shows for guests to return. Peggy Madden is scheduled to return as a guest and guest-host for two special shows in November and December.
We had hoped to be broadcasting tapes from our Montréal visit by now, but we haven't raised the funding for this travel, and so it has been delayed nearly a year. We will be trekking to New York City again this winter, and if you're in New York and haven't been on the show (or have and want to come back), please let us know. If you would like to return as a guest on Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar (or if you haven't appeared at all!), we'd love to have you on the show. Remember that we're also cybercasting, and the show is heard worldwide.
To be a guest, please contact us by email to Contact Form, telephone (+1-802-485-3972) or postal mail (176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA).
| Do you have new recordings? |
Whenever you have new recordings (especially good-quality concert recordings) be sure to forward us a copy. We can't play everything (K&D has been "discovered" by record labels now) but we try to keep our guests in our audience's ears, and love unique live recordings. We also scan the covers of your recordings, and add the images to your web page (see below). If you have a record label, please ask them to send us copies. Forward your latest recordings directly to Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA.
New: When you send recordings, we would appreciate a note giving us permission to keep your music as part of our cybercast archives. All of you have been enthusiastic about this in the past, but new legislation is complicating our lives, and this is a pre-emptive request "just in case". Grant us permission to archive, and note that may be withdrawn at your request -- that should cover it.
Are you prolific? Please don't overwhelm us. Send us one or two good CDs of your work. One guy (you know who you are!) sent us eight CDs, and we hardly know where to start. When was the last time you listened to eight CDs by another composer? Yah.
Make listening easy on us! Then you'll get played more often ... well, write great music first, but you know what we mean. When you submit recordings, try to give us a hand by using the guidelines below. First, label, label, label! Then...
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| Are your web pages current? |
Many of you have started actively using your K&D web pages. But some other pages are getting stale -- old photos, music clips, catalogs, bios, and even incorrect email addresses or phone numbers and changed homepage links. Bad.
We actively submit pages to searchers, so fresh information is important. We try to update pages every Saturday night, so please keep us informed. You can send us your text as an email, and you can send us photos and music clips as email attachments -- or through postal mail. You can also use our new FTP directory at ftp://maltedmedia.com/incoming/ We can use brief video clips (under 1 MB) on your pages as well. Some of what we use is listed below. Note: Email us if you use FTP so we can retrieve the files!
If we haven't yet updated your page, please remind us. I think we're caught up, but it's been a very busy fall.
During August and September, updates will be slow as we complete several major artistic projects!
If you send us computer media, you may send us PC- or Mac-formatted diskettes, Zip disks or CDs. Good preparation helps all around. Now... how do you make us want to update your page? This way:
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| How about those K&D station IDs? |
We recently asked our guest composers to create 10-second K&D station IDs. We now have 30 very kewl spots. We love these IDs! Please do a few for us!
The ID would consist of your greeting, such as...
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Record the message in your native language (or another language of your choice!), and using whatever audio techniques or special effects you'd like. You can mail us a recording to 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA, FTP us an uncompressed or .mp3 file via binary transfer to ftp://maltedmedia.com/incoming/ or email us a .mp3 file (please don't email uncompressed files) to Contact Form.
Do you know one of our email-free guests? Please ask them to contribute an ID -- or give us their email address if they now have one. Those whose email we don't have are Eliane Radigue, Clarence Barlow, Shane Rooks, Batya Weinbaum, Barbara Wellspring, Fred Ho, Kaija Saariaho, Ann Southam, Udo Kasemets, Benedict Mason, Dennis Murphy, Glenn Sproul, Craig Bove, Olex Beck, Mary Oliver, and Henning Berg.
We would love it if every guest recorded a station ID for us! Many thanks -- we've been having great fun with this.
| Do you have audio art for broadcast? |
In the coming year, we will broadcast more of your audio art: essay, collage, composition, or other unique use of the audio medium. Just about anything creative you'd like to send in -- up to about 15 minutes in length -- will be featured, and also added to your web page. For audio art, we would appreciate the material on CD-R, DAT or MiniDisc, but for this project, high-quality cassettes or MP3s can also be used.
First read our recordings submission guidelines, then send material to us at 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA or upload it to our FTP site at ftp://maltedmedia.com/incoming/.
| Have you made cool scripts or applets? |
With our new server in place, we have a little more breathing room. Some of you have made musical scripts or applets to run over the Web, and we would be pleased to have them served from the K&D site, or we can link to your existing applet. So if you have Javascript or Java applets that would delight visitors, send them along ... we can't include cgi or applications that need to be run using server features, but other items are welcome.
Email your applet or link, with instructions (and a demo, if necessary) to add to your web page, to Contact Form, or use our FTP site via ASCII (for scripts) or binary (for compiled applets) transfer to ftp://maltedmedia.com/incoming/ site. Source code is welcome for posting if you'd like to share it.
| Do you have essays, commentaries, word art? |
The commentaries and essays on the K&D pages are many and varied, and generate considerable public response. Send along some of your writings and we'll attach them to your web page suite -- and make sure they're found by searchers.
Email a text copy (read the guidelines) to Contact Form, and include any illustrations, diagrams, etc., in JPEG, TIFF or GIF format. You can also FTP (ftp://maltedmedia.com/incoming/) the materials using ASCII transfer. If you have no electronic version of the goodies, mail a crisp copy on white paper to us at 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA -- we'll convert them and get them posted when we have time.
| The discussion board is coming! |
We have set up a web discussion board off-site at Malted/Media at the request of several composers. You can begin using it immediately, introducing your own topics as you go along, but it still isn't official. If you have a particular interest and would like to have an ongoing section of the board dedicated to it, please contact us to set you up a section and give you moderator status -- Anne La Berge, for example, is preparing a discussion board for contemporary flute techniques.
The discussion board will be officially announced and linked to the K&D homepage once we get a sense from you of how it might be used.
| Do you have graffiti links or materials? |
One popular page is our graffiti page. Visitors love it, and we're starting to get funky links from our guest composers. Check out how it works, and if you have links to some interesting things you're doing -- images, music, applets, writings, videos, etc. -- email the URLs to us.
| Why don't we play your music more often? |
We have limited air time and virtually no budget, so some choices are made for our convenience; we apologize but hope you can understand. The two composer/hosts Kalvos and Damian choose the music, write the commentaries, conduct the interviews, edit the tapes, do our own engineering right down to WGDR's transmitter logs, and prepare post-show RealAudio conversions and web page updates.
We've set up some guidelines. Selections most likely to be played are great compositions (...had to say that!...), under 15 minutes in length, and recorded on a clearly indexed medium, including CD, CD-R, Minidisc, vinyl, and even cassette. We understand that it's too much to ask that every composer make copies of music on CD, but all other issues being equal, keep in mind that we'll grab a CD before any other format. Remember, we love to play stuff. So please follow these format guidelines to keep us enthused!
| Money is needed! |
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a costly project for us. Unlike Artswire, American Music Center, etc., we do not ask that our composer guests be "members" or pay for their web pages. But we do need support, and several composers and fans of new music have been generous. We thank them again here. K&D's fiscal agent is the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, a 501(c)3 organization, and gifts to K&D are tax-deductible in USA to the extent allowed.
We are not presently funded by government or corporate grants, and only private contributions let the program continue, along with facilities generously provided by WGDR-FM, Goddard College, and our own Malted/Media.
Please offer any support you can. For more information, contact us by email, or just write out your check to "Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar" and send it to us at 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA. Gifts of DATs, blank CD-Rs, chrome cassettes, Zip disks, some nice traveling microphones like AT825's, a digital input board for our computer like the Zefiro ZA2, and other supplies -- as well as help with research and maintenance, and keeping your own K&D page fresh -- are also welcome.