ALT : PULSE II EP For Exclusive Download

PULSE II is the brand new 2nd EP from the Experimental drone trio, ALT. Available for exclusive download from Indmill.com as a high quality 320 kbps Download.

The EP includes 4 new sound manipulations with more electronic influences than the previous CD-R,but continuing with the the favoured guitars and overloaded tape techniques,subsequently looped on PC, which retains the organic elements of the White-out EP

Final track listing is:

Pulse II

Parsec

False Flag

Diving Bell (ALT vs Worriedaboutsatan) remix

Pre-orders for the PULSE II white label CD-R will be taken from 1st March 2010

Available from the ALT Myspace site.

ALT New track on aReW Records Compilation Indistinct Passages and Encounters

ALT, Experimental drone/electronic trio,have just released new track, Pulse II, on the first free download compilation from Birmingham based label aReW Records.

To coincide with this,ALT have finalised tracks for the 2nd EP PULSE II

Including the 4th track which is a remix of worriedaboutsatan

The running order is as follows

PULSE II

PARSEC

FALSE FLAG

ALT vs WORRIEDABOUTSATAN (remix)

Scheduled for release Jan 2010

Cd-r available through the ALT myspace

Or as a high quality download from Indmill Records

ALT US and UK Mp3 distributIon by Indmill

Alt have signed up a distribution deal in the UK and US, with online download label Indmill.

Initial release of the Whiteout EP,will be followed by all future Single, EP's and Album releases by the band.

Downloads are in MP3 format at 256kbps from

http://indmill.com

As Indmill put it themselves:

From the moment we had the idea for Indmill it stuck. Selling music for next to nothing and giving almost everything to the artist made perfect sense. But why wasn’t everyone else doing it?

It used to cost a lot of money to get music in the shops but, to paraphrase a famous poet, the times are a-changing. Music can now be recorded and made available for download without the expense of paying a record company, advertising agency, manufacturer, agent, manager, lawyer or retailer.

With most of these costs out of the window music is getting cheaper … but not cheap enough to persuade a generation of fans to pay to fill their iPods. Unless someone figures out how to pay artists to record music, well … they might not bother.

Contrary to current belief, there is a solution. Indmill customers pay ludicrously low prices for music they can keep and 90% (excludingVAT on EU sales) of the revenue goes straight back to the artist. We take a 10% cut (excluding VAT on EU sales), of which 5% goes to a charity nominated by the artist. The artist can, if they wish, give a cut to charity. The customer also gets the chance to donate something to charity at the checkout. Everyone gives something, everyone gets something. Everyone’s happy.

Indmill sells whole albums and singles as MP3 files (because it’s currently the most widely accepted format) encoded at 256 or 320Kbps (because 128Kbps just doesn’t cut it through decent speakers) and at a price you won’t find anywhere else (without breaking the law). Oh, and we sell whole albums and singles rather than individual tracks because - well that’s how the artists wanted them to be listened to. If you don’t want some of the tracks you’ve downloaded, delete them.

Alt feel that Indmill reflect the integrity and ethics of their music and a percentage of each sale of every track will be donated to Save the Children.

Calrec Audio Launch Artemis

UK: Calrec Eclipse the Competition with Artemis

 

Calrec Audio has announced that it will unveil a brand new audio console at IBC 2009 in Amsterdam.  Calrecís new Artemis console is based on the award-winning Apollo platform, which was launched at NAB in April, and utilises the same core technologies such as Bluefin2 and Hydra2.

 

These technologies equip the console with an enormous routing and processing capacity which belies its mid-size footprint. Using a combination of OLED displays, touch screens, and light-emitting knobs the soft Artemis control surface not only provides instant visual feedback, but a flexibility which enables the user to reconfigure the desk on the fly. 

 

Artemis utilises Bluefin2, the next generation of Calrecís trademark Bluefin High Density Signal Processing platform, to provide substantial resources at multiple sample rates. At 48kHz, Bluefin2 gives Artemis up to 640 channel processing paths, 128 program busses, 64 IFB/Track outputs and 32 auxiliaries.

 

Artemis also features a second Compressor/Limiter in each channel, more than 70 minutes of assignable delay, and three independent APFL systems for multiple operator use. Like all Calrec designs, these facilities do not share resources so that they are available to the user at all times. 

 

Central to the Artemis console is a dedicated integrated router so that its I/O functions can be performed by Calrecís next-generation networking system, Hydra2. 

 

Hydra2 uses high capacity 8192 x 8192 cross-point routers and makes available a variety of I/O units to provide analog, AES, MADI, SDI and Dolby E formats. All use copper or fiber connectivity, and can be fitted with GPIO cards. Console routers can be connected together to form large networks, and stand-alone routers will also be available.

 

As with all Calrec consoles, the inclusion of full automatic hot-swap redundancy is part of the system architecture ñ on Artemis all DSP, control processor, router, power supplies, and connections are fully redundant.

 

Since its launch in April, Apollo has been sold to NTV in Japan, and both the Artemis and Apollo consoles are key to broadcast TV operations at the MediaCityUK project in Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.

 

Alt finalising tracks for their 2nd EP Pulse II

Alt are currently in the process of finishing songs for their 2nd EP, Pulse II.

More electronic than the previous release,it still maintains the core of tape saturated guitars and found sound,processed looped and manipulated to create 4 avant electronic tracks.

Release is scheduled for Winter 2009/2010.

GUILD new Instrumental Bass solo project

Guild,the new solo bass instrumental project of M.Midgley,now has 3 initial tracks uploaded onto the Myspace.

Requiem

Magnetic Horizontal Intensity

Low Mass

Constructed solely utilising 4 & 5 string Bass Guitars and laptop, to create drones effected and looped. This reflects minimal ambience drone in the vein of Fennesz, Stars of the Lid and Final. 

Calrec and Riedel Announce Technology Partnership

Las Vegas, USA 2009 –

 Riedel Communications, leading manufacturer of digital intercom, fiber and radio solutions, and Calrec Audio, manufacturer of state-of-the-art digital audio mixing consoles for on-air and live productions, have announced a close technology partnership at this year’s NAB exhibition and conference. 

The partnership includes the integration of Riedel Artist intercom functionality in Calrec’s brand-new digital mixing console Apollo, as well as the integration of Calrec’s Hydra2 audio routing network into Riedel’s fiber network solution MediorNet. 

"Although the Apollo console and the new Hydra2 core already provide extensive audio networking, the integration into MediorNet expands the possibilities even more. To provide maximum benefit for our customers it was a logical step to cooperate with Riedel," said Henry Goodman, Calrec’s Business Development Manager. 

Apollo features comprehensive Artist intercom integration, which allows the control surface to show Artist intercom control panels directly on the fader control cells. Apollo can assign up to 124 buttons with full Artist functionality to any place on the console. Individual operators can instantly configure their own distinctive operational settings, including the position of the intercom panel. 

In addition, a jointly developed interface for MediorNet, Riedel’s new fiber-optic network solution, provides direct interfacing with Hydra2 ensuring that the Hydra2 audio network becomes an integral part of the MediorNet solution. MediorNet provides the integration of multi-channel HD video, audio, intercom and data into one single fiber-optic network with integrated processing and conversion features. 

"We’ve always seen our intercom and fiber products as an open platform. Integration with other manufacturers always results in benefits for our customers. Therefore we’re proud to welcome Calrec as our newest technology partner,” said Thomas Riedel, Managing Director of Riedel Communications. 

About Calrec Audio 

As broadcast specialists for more than thirty years, Calrec is exclusively dedicated to excellence in audio mixing for on-air and live production. This understanding has helped Calrec develop a range of digital and analog consoles relied on by the world’s most successful broadcasters. For putting sound in the picture, broadcasters trust in Calrec. 

About Riedel 

Riedel Communications – the largest supplier of communications equipment to the 2008 Olympic Summer Games in Beijing – designs, manufactures and distributes the most sophisticated intercom, fiber and radio technology for customers worldwide in the broadcast, pro-audio, event, sports, theatre and security industries. The products reflect today’s leading-edge technologies that expand conventional concepts into tomorrow’s applications. The Riedel group of companies also includes a European based large rental operation that provides radio and intercom services, event IT solutions as well as fiber-based and wireless audio & video transmission systems. The Company was founded in 1987 and today employs over 180 people located within 8 locations in Europe, Australia, Asia and North America.