Word: multimedia
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Perhaps the most immediately useful application of this way-new medium was the one announced two weeks ago by Progressive Networks, a company based in Seattle and founded by Rob Glaser, former vice president for multimedia at Microsoft. Until Glaser came along, using the Internet to carry audio programming was painful for home-computer users. For instance, Internet Talk Radio, based in Washington, has broadcast an interview show called Geek of the Week for two years, but home listeners have had to be patient: even using a high-speed, 14,400-bit-per-second modem, it took an average...
Like most of the wonders of cyberspace, access to the new programming is limited to those computer users who have a direct connection to the Internet and have the software necessary to reach the multimedia offerings on the World Wide Web. (For now, subscribers to Prodigy, CompuServe and America Online need not bother to tune in.) But RealAudio's software can be downloaded for free from Progressive Networks' computer. And although it runs only on Windows-based machines, a Macintosh version is expected next month...
Having already developed something of a following on the internet, it seems only natural that McLachlan would turn to CD-ROM as the next step in putting out her music. The practice of producing multimedia to accompany an album, is not unheard of--REM's latest album, Monster, was preceded by a multi-media preview that circulated freely through the internet after being released on one of the commercial services. Unlike REM's program, however, McLachlan's CD-ROM track is actually on her CD, giving her much more space to work with. The multimedia track is first...
...songs featured on Fumbling as two albums and had initially titled it Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: The Freedom Sessions, which was much too long to sell. With the nine track The Freedom Sessions, Sarah McLachlan revisits many of the songs from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. The addition of a CD-ROM multimedia track makes this presentation of different versions of seven of the twelve songs on Fumbling something more than just an Unplugged session...
Despite containing familiar material. The Freedom Sessions makes a good case for itself. McLachlan's music holds up in an acoustic from because of her sheer talent. The multimedia track makes good use of CD-ROM technology and provides a glimpse into her music-making process. The album is clearly a companion album to Fumbling and complements its more textured sound with the clear tones of McLachlan's voice. Though few would say that she stumbles much, The Freedom Sessions finds her most definitely soaring...