After 4 weeks of prototyping, the music podcast goes LIVE in July and we’re celebrating with an official opening night on Tuesday July 6th. So come along to the ustream page promptly for 7.00pm UK time to get your requests in, hang out with other podcast listeners and be part of my opening night recorded for posterity here at http://andyroberts.me/ Podcast Launch Building the Opening Night It would be nice to have a bit of a crowd along for the opening night just to get the regular weekly podcasting off to a good start so I’ve created a facebook Event for this particular show which you can invite people to. I’ll also be making a post over on my long established blog site at DARnet Andy Roberts and one or tow other places if I can think of them. The podcast opening night will also be part of the Cafe Noodle July Ustream Festival, a great music community organised by Matt Stevens Loop. I think it should be possible to embed the ustream show here on this site – so that’s something I’ll be having a go at too.
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Official Podcast Opening Night – Tuesday July 6th 7.00pm
http://andyroberts.me/podcast/official-podcast-opening-night-tuesday-july-6th-7-00pm
June 30 2010, 4:43am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Podcast 4th and Final Prototype
http://andyroberts.me/podcast/podcast-4th-and-final-prototype
Well I’m surprised how quickly 4 weeks have passed, I even made a mistake during the recording and referred to it as prototype 3 but this is in fact the 4th and final podcast prototype in the series. Next week’s edition will be the official opening night of the Andy Roberts Podcast – episode 1. I ought to make an event out of that on the facebook page really, and invite people. Anyway, here’s the podcast player for listening online to my Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 4:
. . Subscribe in iTunes to the podcast feed using the url
http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast You can also download the MP3 audio file which is around 25Mb in size and just under 29minutes in duration from this link Andy Roberts Podcast Prototype 4.mp3 If you must, the full video file of the broadcast is available over at Ustream.tv where the live podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Podcast Prototype No 4 Video Podcast Prototype 4 Show Notes Show notes and information for prototype 4 broadcast and recorded on June 29th 2010. There were 3 songs performed during this show, two using the plain 12string acoustic guitar and the others on the Chinese Lute or Ruan. The Dream Is Over Title: “The Dream is Over” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes Here’s the same song performed last week at Havering Folk Club
Mike Silver – Lady You’re On Fire Title: Not really sure about this Music and Lyrics by Mike Silver, badly remembered and interpreted by Andy Roberts Yangtse Gorges Title: “Yangtse Gorges” Chinese Lute Music by Andy Roberts Big Eyed Beans From Venus – Captain Beefheart Title: “Big Eyed Beans From Venus” Music and Lyrics by Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), loosely interpreted by Andy Roberts on the Chinese Lute Chinese Lute Picture Chinese Lute or Ruan
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June 29 2010, 5:51pm | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Prototype 3 – Andy Roberts Music Podcast
http://andyroberts.me/andy-roberts/prototype-3-andy-roberts-music-podcast
Here’s the podcast player for listening online to my Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 3:
Subscribe in iTunes to the podcast feed using the url
http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast You can also download the MP3 audio file which is around 24Mb in size and just under 26 minutes in duration from this link Podcast Prototype 3.mp3 The full video file of the show is available over at Ustream.tv where the live podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Podcast Prototype No 3 Video Podcast Prototype 3 Show Notes Show notes and information for prototype 3 broadcast and recorded on June 22nd 2010. There were five songs performed during this show, one using the archtop acoustic guitar and the others on a standard 6 string. Memphis Tennessee Title: “Memphis, Tennessee” Music and Lyrics by Chuck Berry, interpretation Andy Roberts The Dream is Over Title: “The Dream is Over” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes Standing By Title: “Standing By” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts Don’t You Grieve Title: “Don’t You Grievel” Music and Lyrics by Roy Harper, interpretation Andy Roberts The War is Over Title: “The War Is Over” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes
June 23 2010, 5:03am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Andy Roberts Podcast Prototype No 2
http://andyroberts.me/andy-roberts/andy-roberts-podcast-prototype-no-2
Subscribe in iTunes to the podcast feed using the url
http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Here’s the podcast player for listening online to my Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 2:
You can also download the MP3 audio file which is around 26Mb in size and just under 30 minutes in duration from this link AndyRobertsPodcastprototype2.mp3 The full video file of the show is available over at Ustream.tv where the live podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Podcast Prototype No 2 Video Podcast Prototype 2 Show Notes Show notes and information for prototype 2 broadcast and recorded on June 15th 2010. There were five songs performed during this show, including one instrumental, all using the 12 string guitar. Waiting Title: “Waiting” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes
The Nutmeg Tree Title: “The Nutmeg Tree” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on Album 1
Mazet Title: “Mazet” Music and Lyrics by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes
Instrumental Title: “Intrumental” Music by Andy Roberts, first released on The Andy Roberts Tapes
I Shall Be Released Title: “I Shall Be Released” Song and Lyrics by Bob Dylan 1967 Interpretation Andy Roberts
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June 16 2010, 6:42am | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Andy Roberts - I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfesfeUPTlY&feature=youtube_gdata
June 16 2010, 5:21am | Comments »
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I posted to andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com
Podcast Prototype Number 1
http://andyrobertsmusic.blogspot.com/2010/06/podcast-prototype-number-1.html
Well I didn't get to Havering Folk Club last Wednesday because I was on holiday canal boating on the Kennet and Avon canal on board Isabella.So instead I'm blogging here about what's happening with the Tuesday evening live streaming music show that I've been doing for almost a year now, most weeks. I've decided to turn it into a podcast as well. That means you don't have to be there live at 7.00pm on a Tuesday in order to hear the show. You should be able to subscribe with iTunes or similar feed reading software, and have each episode downloaded as an mp3 file to listen to as and when you have a spare moment.The show itself is pretty much the same unrehearsed music and chat as always except that I don't stop to mess about with the record/stop button and saving the description and tags etc in between each song. The whole thing gets recorded as one block and then the audio is stripped out and distributed through the podcasting channel via one of my websites called andyroberts.me We're still in the prototyping stage so this could change but for the present the new url for the podcast feed should be at http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Try putting that into your iTunes subscriptions . In my version you have to go to the overhead top go to the top of page drop down menu and select "Advanced" then "Subscribe to Podcast" and paste the url http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast into the box which pops up. Your mileage may vary.I can still edit out individual songs for uploading to youTube so there's nothing lost in that respect and here are the five songs from last week's Andy Roberts podcast prototype number 1
The Wreckers Prayer
People Are Strange
Cormorants
Here Comes The Sun
Narrow Boats
June 15 2010, 10:54am | Comments »
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I posted to andyroberts.me
Podcast Prototype No 1
http://andyroberts.me/andy-roberts/podcast-prototype-no-1
Podcast I had an idea about turning the Weekly Ustream.tv show into a podcast and started putting it into practice. So last Tuesday instead of just recording some of the individual songs during the webcast for uploading to youTube, I recorded the whole half an hour or so of the show, songs and talking, and saved it using the ustream record system. I was fairly happy with the way that went from a performance point of view, it worked better for me than premeditated songs and faffing about with song tit;es description and tags in the middle of a broadcast. The experiment was to see what I could do with the resulting file. I downloaded it to my Mac – ustream provides a file in .flv format (Flash) and when I clicked on the downloaded file it opened an application I’d never seen before! Mpeg-streamclip was able to export in various formats including quicktime, Mpeg4, and audio only. So far so good. The quicktime version allowed me to quickly edit out the five songs from within the video and save them individually as .mov , all ready for uploading to youtube. So this meant that with a small amount of effort I can use ustream for the live streaming show, record it all in one go, and still have the songs available in youtube for embedding elsewhere and so on. But what about the podcast? Ah, well I went away for a few days, so now I’m getting around to it. The audio podcast is here: http://andyroberts.me/wp-content/podcast/Podcast-prototype-1.mp3 and the video podcast is is still hosted on ustream at
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/7526414 also embedded below
But this still doesn’t count as a podcast yet until I have it set up as a series you can subscribe to in iTunes or the audio player of your choice. Fortunately I still the rest of the month of June to get that boxed off, since this is still the prototyping period, and I’ve set the goal of getting started for real in July.
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June 14 2010, 12:02pm | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Narrow Boats - Andy Roberts Instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWv91nhErE0&feature=youtube_gdata
June 8 2010, 5:59pm | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Here Comes The Sun - Beatles Cover by Andy Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LpopweyuHk&feature=youtube_gdata
June 8 2010, 5:53pm | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
Cormorants - Andy Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObI9Uzluwdk&feature=youtube_gdata
June 8 2010, 5:45pm | Comments »
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I posted to youtube.com
The Wreckers Prayer - Andy Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diiyIqBqHaU&feature=youtube_gdata
June 8 2010, 5:35pm | Comments »
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I posted to distributedresearch.net
Podcast
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2010/06/07/podcast
Podcast Podcast Idea OK, I woke up on Wednesday morning with an idea in my head that just seemed to be a natural way forward for the music side of things. A podcast. It’s not a big stretch really, but for some reason hadn’t occurred to me before. I’ve been doing a weekly live music broadcast on Ustream.tv since July 2009, nearly a year ago, and sometimes a few people login and say hello, others just lurk, and it’s very much a live, ephemeral event. Some of the songs I perform I also record using the ustream system, and they can end up on youTube, and some of them I don’t. It depends how I feel at the time. By keeping the time and day of week the same – always on a Tuesday at 7.00pm UK time – I thought it might encourage a small group of regulars to build up, and there are indeed some people who do drop in on a semi regular kind of basis. But if I don’t bother to send out a tweet and a facebook status update, or set up an event, then it can seem kind of like pushing a boulder up the side of the mountain. It can fall back again so there’s nobody there except myself and Linda and a couple of anonymous attenders who may or may not be paying attention. But then again, people have also mentioned to me face to face that they were there listening on an occasion, but not logged on, so it’s not really anonymous, that’s just how it can seem subjectively, which is not really something to be at all worried about. And That’s all OK as far as it goes, because the Tuesday night shows allow me to rehearse a few songs that I might end up performing in front of a live audience at the Havering Folk Club the next day, and help to build up the collection of videos to the Andy Roberts Music youTube account, which can get thousands of views sometimes. Andy Roberts Music on USTREAM But it seems I may have been missing a trick. It struck me that for all sorts of reasons there can be a few people who might have wanted to turn up on any particular Tuesday evening but can’t make it that week, or forget, or go out, fall asleep, desperately need to watch the stupid box or cook dinner etc. I toyed with the idea of moving to a different time of day. Maybe a Sunday afternoon or something like that. But Tuesday evenings are convenient for me as it happens. So maybe a couple more people could tune in if they could do so at their own convenience, asynchronously, using the simple podcast technology that’s been around on the internet for several years now. There could be a choice between downloading audio only, as in conventional iPod mp3 player, or a video podcast. I’ll learn to pipe more than just live webcam video into that at some point. So nothing much is going to change with the Tuesday evening live broadcast music shows, except for this: Instead of setting Ustream to record individual songs as and when, every week the whole show will be recorded, 20 minutes half an hour or whatever, and made available as a podcast which can be subscribed to in iTunes, downloaded, accessed from this blog or via RSS etc. The thing that podcasts do best. So you can listen or watch when you like. Andy Roberts Podcast So I’ve decided to start off with a plan, and this is the plan: The new Andy Roberts Podcast will go live in July 2010, with a prototype starting next Tuesday and ongoing during June, so I can learn what needs to be done and how it all works out. The best way to find out how to subscribe for now, is going to be to subscribe to the RSS for this blog. There’ll be another post just before July telling you how to subscribe in iTunes or get the podcast automatically delivered to the podcast player of your choice. Once we’re underway in July, the whole podcast idea in the context of the Andy Roberts music project will then be subject to some good old plan /do / review reflective practice with no doubt, a series of iterative cycles which really start with the prototyping in June.
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June 7 2010, 10:34am | Comments »
