[LAU] Proposal for 'lo-fi' music competition

[david]

OK, now I've got to track down a way to digitize a mix tape I made for 
my first girlfriend, back in early 70's. It was a mix tape of my own 
songs, including one with me singing (badly) and playing bottle neck 
guitar (passably) on a cheap steel-string acoustic that couldn't stay in 
tune for more than a minute. Recorded onto 1/4" cassette using a 
portable tape recorder designed to record voice dictation or interview, 
not music.

About as lo-fi as you could get, even by standards back then!

On 03/16/2014 01:04 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> In light of the interesting discussion on sample rates I propose a music
> competition among LAU around production of music pieces with quality
> considered 'low' by current dominating professional/audiophile standards
> in the digital domain:
>
> Specifics to be discussed, but I would start with the following:
>
> 1. Final piece shall be delivered with a maximum sampling rate of 32kHz.
> Lower sample rates .allowed.
>
> 2. Final bit depth of the file shall not exceed 8 bit.
>      - Possible variations/additions to this restriction:
>          - allow dithering?
>          - allow 4/8bit codecs (e.g. ADPCM, ulaw)?
>          - mono/stereo?
>          - simply impose a max duration and max filesize (but keep sr
> and bit thresholds... and variations..)?
>
>
> - Participants shall strongly focus on exploring and  exploiting the
> imposed limitations in a creative and artistic way
>
> Other specs, voting mechanisms, competition arrangements, prizes, ... ???
>
> Ciao,
> Lorenzo.


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