yes, the beatnik plugin was ahead of it's time, essentially a banked software synthesizer impemented via a browser plugin. allowed high fidelity 10 min tracks in < 100kb. a lot of foresight, but then bandwidth became virtually infinite / free and.....
he also has a fair amount of ties to electronic music, worked and continues to work closely with gianluigi di costanzo (bochum welt), helped with production on several of gian's albums. recently released a limited live CD recorded at his birthday party. if you listen to the production on the TD stuff, it's really amazing, deep and very layered. respect, Jeff Davis fon: 216.266.6969 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fax: 216.266.2360 cel: 216.533.6303 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:50 PM To: James Bucknell Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things Yep, I think it was called Headspace. It was a very popular site back then. They were actually ahead of their time trying to come up with a streaming format for the internet and sound files in general. The site was almost like Flash before the advent of Flash coding. Peace, Alex James Bucknell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/27/2003 10:37 AM To 313@hyperreal.org cc Subject Re: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things i interviewed thomas dolby a few years back for harper's bazaar. at that point he had a software development company in san fransisco. they'd developed some internet sound ap. james > From: robin pinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:10:04 +0100 (BST) > To: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: RE: (313) Re: Thomas Dolby was Re: those moxie things > >> >> Strange, didn't realize that his dad was *that* Dolby. Not sure if that's >> the case. >> >> If so, why did Dolby Labs conduct a long-running litigation on him for the >> use of his real surname, 'Dolby'? Virtually finished his career. >> >> Know what he does now? >> >> Makes stings/jingles for consumer/business electronic appliances (like >> mobile 'phones). >> >> www.lexiconmagazine.com/NWC/Now/dolby.html > > well from that link his real name aint Dolby... > > also i see he nicked the name of his company from Tom Churchill's label :) > > looks like he got his sound stuff accepted into Java so he isn't doing too > bad... > > robin... > >
