30 Jahre CD
Heute vor dreißig Jahren wurde in Japan die erste Compact Disc verkauft, zusammen mit Sonys CDP-101 CD-Player veröffentlichte man damals Billy Joels „52nd Street“. Die CD markierte den Beginn der Digitalisierung von Musik und welches Fass man damit aufgemacht hat, wissen wir ja alle. Immerhin hat die Musikindustrie mindestens ein Jahrzehnt ziemlich gut davon gelebt, uns tausend Alben ein zweites mal zu verkaufen, während die CD heute zu den aussterbenden Medien gehört und Vinyl bei Liebhabern wieder auf den Plattentellern rotiert. Ich kann mich übrigens beim besten Willen nicht an meine erste CD erinnern. Wie auch immer: Happy Compactdiscing!
Von Wikipedia:
The first test CD was pressed in Langenhagen near Hannover, Germany, by the Polydor Pressing Operations plant. The disc contained a recording of Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie (in English, An Alpine Symphony), played by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Herbert von Karajan. The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow’s World when The Bee Gees’ album Living Eyes (1981) was played. In August 1982 the real pressing was ready to begin in the new factory, not far from the place where Emile Berliner had produced his first gramophone record 93 years earlier. By now, Deutsche Grammophon, Berliner’s company and the publisher of the Strauss recording, had become a part of PolyGram. The first CD to be manufactured at the new factory was The Visitors (1981) by ABBA. The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel’s 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony’s CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.
(via Gizmodo)
No one steals your worthless CDs anymore
In England sind die Zahlen der gestohlenen CDs und DVDs in den letzten Jahren extrem eingebrochen (no pun intended). Wenn einem nichtmal mehr die Produkte geklaut werden, dann hat man als Industrie wirklich ein Problem. Und nein – Copying is not theft.
“Years ago, you’d see a man in a pub selling CDs,” says Eric Phelps, a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. “Not any more.” Indeed, thefts of entertainment products like CDs and DVDs have collapsed in England and Wales, to the point that they are now taken in just 7% of all burglaries in which something is stolen (see chart). They are now targeted no more frequently than are toiletries and cigarettes.
CD Spirograph
Aaaaaaw! Ein Spirograph aus ollen CDs! Außer dem Bild oben gibt’s auf der Website nicht viel zu sehen, leider, aber ich liebe die Idee so sehr, dass ich gleich mal auf Ebay auf nicht eins, sondern gleich zwei alte Spirograph-Sets geboten habe.
Kann mal sowas jemand für Eddings oder Sprühdosen bauen? Die Frage ist sogar halbwegs ernst gemeint.
(via Make)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Spirograph Visitenkarten
A Future History of the CD Revival
Pitchfork hat einen ziemlich spaßig zu lesenden Artikel aus der Zukunft in 25 Jahen über das dann angeblich stattfinden sollende CD-Revival.
“I remember playing with my dad’s CDs when I was tiny, and then at school we’d put our projects on to CD-Rs to take home. But I never really owned any– by the time I was getting into music nobody bought them.” So when Britain’s high street stores stopped stocking CDs five years ago, like most people, he never imagined he’d miss them. “Even Dad’s getting rid of his now– I told him about the club, and he thinks I’m demented.”
“The Club” is the 74 Sessions, a monthly night in London dedicated to making and swapping CD-Rs, named after the original storage capacity of a disc in minutes. Maclay started the club last year, and the reception has delighted him. “The CD-Rs people bring are amazing,” he beams, “There’s so much care going into them– because people are making something physical, something they can’t change once they’ve burned it, they put a lot of effort into it.” […]
But for the fans, the music is still at the core. Unlike today’s collaborative, crowdsourced, and automatically generated playlists, a CD’s tracklisting is fixed, and the CD-burning scene is an opportunity for music lovers to show their deep individual loves of music, its sequencing and presentation.
Poptimist #26 – Shiny Shiny: A Future History of the CD Revival (via MeFi)
Judge rejects music industry’s promo CD copyright claim
In a major pushback against music industry efforts to expand copyright control at the expense of consumers, a California judge has ruled that recipients of promotional CDs are free to do with them as they please. In other words, what would seem obvious to the layman, in this case also happens to be the law.
However, during a long-running legal battle that shut down an eBay seller, Universal Music Group had argued that it retained licensing rights and could prohibit such resale despite the fact that its promo CDs are distributed willy-nilly to thousands of music industry insiders who neither ask for them nor are not expected to return them.
Microwave vs. Compact Disk
Nichts könnte den Untergang der CD als führender Datenträger besser visualisieren, als diese wunderbaren Bilder einer Disc in einer Mikrowelle. Cracks of Fire!
Vinylcutter macht aus ollen CDs funktionierende Schallplatten
Schallplatte, tolles Wort. Echt mal jetzt, beschreibt nämlich exakt den Gegenstand: Schall-Platte. Toll! Dagegen das schnöde Compact Disc. Was soll das sein? Eine kompakte Disc war eine 3,5″Floppy ja schließlich auch. Und ich denke, der Vinyl-Cutter macht genau das, was die Musik-Industrie auch gerne machen würde: die Zeit dahin zurückdrehen, als man sich noch nicht mit einer Erfindung namens CD selbst ins Knie geschossen hat.
Attendees of the Manchester Futuresonic 2008 Festival were invited to bring their unwanted CDs and DVDs to his display at the event to have music physically etched onto them by Kolkowski’s vintage vinyl cutter. Even better, he apparently let people bring their own WAV files so that they could have whatever song they wanted cut onto the disc.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Compact Disk.
25 Jahre bist Du alt und ich habe eine schlechte Nachricht: Only the good die young.
