mit goes analog
in a shocking development (ok, not so shocking, except that some time ago i was informed that mit students don’t “hang out with musicians” – that was more shocking). anyway, in a not-terribly-suprising development, the geeks of mit, home of the media lab, the toy symphony, and other cool innovative approaches to music… bring, to the mit campus, lamp.
they’re getting all kinds of interesting news coverage, but they’ll keep the list on the lamp page more up to date, so go there for what other people are saying.
16 all-music channels. college radio revived and pumped up on techno steroids. in analog. with requests. over the campus cable system. on a shoestring.
with nothing other than a decent infrastructure to work with (campus it and cable) and a few good hacks, the brains of mit have applied a machete to the legal jungle, taken a page from the bad old days of analog, and used the rules of the music business to get what they want.
nicely done.