Hard News: "Creative" and "Flexible"
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its not that classical music is useless and redundant Gio, just irrelevent to most. It's had it's day and so time to move on. Which is how i feel about the concert program and radio in general.
Gawd.
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I think that in a small, poor country like ours the government should direct it's money and energy into areas like education, welfare and healthcare, not paying ballet dancers to stage productions nobody watches or composers to write symphonies nobody listens to.
Yeah, this is really just barbaric in that dull classical sense; there's something that separates Athens from Persia, and part of it is that in Athens art was democratic & public and in Persia it wasn't.
Secondly, what do you mean `stage productions nobody watches or [...] symphonies nobody listens to'? You might want to go off and get some evidence for this one.
You also might want to consider the importance of cultural infrastructure for the economy on a industrial planning level & of course flow on effects --- see basic research in the sciences for example.
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They're easily the best thing since the last best thing.
indeed, they do a fine job...
but I ain't getting rid of UHP on the strength of this ... - each to their own and all that...
diversity keeps us all happy and gives us cultural anchors and reference pointsand yes I liked Dark Tower - Jody Lloyd is a good friend, I printed the covers and contents for his last CD loops of Love ....
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Anywaaay ... I'll be talking to Jake Quinn, the creator of the "Save Radio New Zealand" Facebook group, and Mitch harris, programme director of Radio Live, about the Radio NZ funding controversy, and Jose covers last week's Webstock events.
If you want to join us, we'd need you to arrive at the Victoria St entrance of TVNZ at 5pm this evening. If The Ad Show isn't packed with punters, you should be able to sty and watch that being recorded too.
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And William Dart runs Art New Zealand. I don't know how he does it all.
I liked Dark Tower as well. I am so unhip I'm hop.
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Musically, it's all about dubstep and UKfunky now, which if most of them dead white euro composers from eons ago were alive now, they'd me making instead.
Yeah, and they'd be all like squabbling about what dance music genre they were this week.
I actually don't think you'd really like living in a society whose memory of itself extended no further than the last five minutes.
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History of Radio Broadcasting in NZ
if anyone is seriously researching - or interested in - the history of NZ Broadcasting I have a copy of Voices in the Air: Radio Broadcasting in New Zealand - a documentary by Peter Downes and Peter Harcourt (published 1976) complete with 45pm record in the back to give away to a good home (well ya could chip in for postage outside Chch)see book details here and save $69.00!!
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If The Ad Show isn't packed with punters, you should be able to sty and watch that being recorded too.
... they pack 'em in like pigs, eh?
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History of Radio Broadcasting in NZ
if anyone is seriously researching - or interested in - the history of NZ Broadcasting I have a copy of Voices in the Air: Radio Broadcasting in New Zealand - a documentary by Peter Downes and Peter Harcourt (published 1976) complete with 45pm record in the back to give away toMe! Please?
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That's a truly breathtaking work of diversion Craig, but it might be more useful to deal with what Rudman actually says in his column.
Sorry, but I don't take Rudman or the Herald very seriously on this subject for the same reason I zone out when the GOP starts talking about fiscal discipline or family values. To paraphrase James Carville: It's the hypocrisy, stupid.
And I personally find it breath-taking that Rudman has the gall to talk about RNZ being "valuable competition for the two or three big metropolitan papers" when he's had NOTHING to say about the way his own employers have gutted and dumbed-down the ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AUCKLAND.
And if the editor of the Herald has ever fronted up to Media7, then I missed it. Guess scrutiny and accountability is for other people -- or more precisely, your competitors...
Speaking truth to power also includes, once in a while, casting a sceptical eye over your own backyard.
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And I personally find it breath-taking that Rudman has the gall to talk about RNZ being "valuable competition for the two or three big metropolitan papers" when he's had NOTHING to say about the way his own employers have gutted and dumbed-down the ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AUCKLAND.
Well, that's a relevant discussion. But it hardly invalidates what Rudman says about Radio New Zealand, however much you'd like it to.
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Whilst we are giving away stuff, I have a bunch of CD new music samplers (mainly from The Word) I am happy to post to anyone who might like them. Just bung me an email.
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I actually don't think you'd really like living in a society whose memory of itself extended no further than the last five minutes.
True, but I'd also not particularly like to live in a society that prioritized the past over the future too much. In between?
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Terrific, and of course whenever there's a new kind of music on the scene the thing you've got to do is forget about everything that came before it. What a fucking depressing idea of culture.
I'm not saying forget it, but not to continually subsidise it with taxpayer money. It's evolutionary, like hanging on to obsolete cultural traditions is a waste of time or keeping that cassette walkman in your shed thinking casesttes are gonna make a come back.
I 've been to an ex radio NZ warehouse full of old gear and records. So why bother revamping the gear but not the programming ?
I'll keep listening to Nina and Wolfgang some of the time. It's nice to know that for the grand price of 1 dollar per New Zealander per year there's a place where I can do that.
Want me to post you some 'free' links you can program and listen to in your own time ?
it's inevitable what with the ageing population and changing market, the dominace of new media 2.0 and increasing broadband receptivity to include cars that radio as it is will disappear. It's main function these days is to collect ad revenue for artist via apra and as ad revenue decreases to more web/tv based media, radio, and all those involved, will go the way of the dinosaurs.
you should know this Russell ? I say put it out of it's misery ? does that sound like a media7 debate :)
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Terrific, and of course whenever there's a new kind of music on the scene the thing you've got to do is forget about everything that came before it.
I've already removed everything from 2009 back to the year dot from my music collection, based on this premise. I can fit everything on an iPod Shuffle! It's so... freeing.
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Speaking truth to power my fat black arse.
Heh! But surely ragging on Rudman is truth to the powerless. You can't rag out your own organization publicly, that's just a plain fact of paid employment. If I want to hear Granny-ragging, the internet is where it's at.
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History of Radio Broadcasting in NZ
Gone! to the fleet-fingered moderator :- )
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It's evolutionary, like hanging on to obsolete cultural traditions is a waste of time or keeping that cassette walkman in your shed thinking casesttes are gonna make a come back.
Yeah, we need to round up all those turntables which the DJs are using, despite their obsolescence. Then we should burn the old school records. Then we can live in the permanent ephemeral present (until it becomes the past).
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Want me to post you some 'free' links you can program and listen to in your own time ?
No. Because even your version of free couldn't possibly be cheaper than one dollar per NZer per year, and because I like that it employs people who have a passion for the less than commercial musical genres and knows how to communicate it.
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Yeah, we need to round up all those turntables which the DJs are using, despite their obsolescence.
There may be something in this. A couple of years back, Frank Stark was recommending we all buy a VCR or two, and store them away as the dominant disc format may not always be with us--something to do with the inadequacy of the glue holding the layers together.
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Danyl, if Prime Minister Peter and his wife Janet Fraser et al were still alive they would argue strongly for ongoing government support of the arts. The NZSO, the RNZ Ballet, public art galleries and public radio and such like were started (or nationalised) by the first Labour government, so that they would be accessible to everyone, not just the elite.
And that was a very worthy aim back in the 1930s when our country was amazingly isolated, our population was concentrated in rural areas and small towns, there was less of a divide between high culture and popular culture and our society was not so saturated with arts and entertainment that you had to struggle to avoid it.
there's something that separates Athens from Persia, and part of it is that in Athens art was democratic & public and in Persia it wasn't.
I'm guessing you don't make it to a lot of NZSO concerts. I go a couple of times a year: it's a pretty elite event. Not a lot of light between that and the court entertainments in Darius's palace; the festival of Dionysis had more in common with the ACDC concert (which I did not attend).
(Although given the massive phallus's worn during comic performances, maybe Beastie Boys or Insane Clown Posse would be more apt.)
You also might want to consider the importance of cultural infrastructure for the economy on a industrial planning level & of course flow on effects --- see basic research in the sciences for example.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I do research in basic sciences for a living. Maybe that's my problem . . .
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Shitloads of old school DJs are selling their vinyl in favour of 'serato', a kiwi invention that converts digital signal to output delivery by turntable, so it still has some uses, and i got a not too bad collection of old school mp3's thanx very much.
besides we cant burn vinyl silly, think of the environment ? maybe we can build homeless shelters out of them instead ?
get with the program fella !!!
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Right in front of all the bellboys and the over-friendly concierge...
I am constantly amused that the neophiles always claim that the old styles are oppressive while trying to bully the rest of us into accepting their latest fad. No, I will not get with the programme, because I am going to make my own choices.
Besides, there is nothing worse than dance music for people who can't dance.
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even your version of free couldn't possibly be cheaper than one dollar per NZer per year, and because I like that it employs people who have a passion for the less than commercial musical genres and knows how to communicate it.
so why should my one dollar subsidise your altruistic fetish ? how about user pays then ? a paid subscription to indulge your particular tastes ? whats it worth to you ? Try getting a facebook campaign to implement a license fee as they do in Finland to subsidise public broadcasting and you'll be dealing with the proverbial cup of cold sick.
Even better, take it to the streets if you dont think theres much worth in net based media protest ?
and interestringly, maybe we should compare carbon footprints of radio vs web based media as to relative costs to the environment ?
travel costs and building maintenance would soon add a bit to your $1 a day and is that including GST ?
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so why should my one dollar subsidise your altruistic fetish
Bye.
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