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Emergency funding for the Kalvos & Damian cybercast project was needed before September 4, 1998, in the sum of $6,000. We did not reach the goal, but have gone ahead with the project. Your support is crucial to seeing the costs through of this remarkable 5-hour cybercast that took place simultaneously from Amsterdam and Vermont on September 12, 1998.
Our cybercast did not find major corporate or government sponsorship to date, so we are asking for a contribution from the entire K&D public -- our supporters, users of our site, those who have received help or advice or listings, companies who wish to be associated with this new and interesting project, and even our guests. A pledge in the amount of $100 is requested to Contact Form, with a check mailed to K&D as soon as possible (made out to "VCME/Kalvos & Damian", to Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA).
The aim of this fund drive is to make this and future cybercast projects successful, including an upcoming 25th anniversary series of the Gimik Ensemble in Fall 2000 and SEAMUS 2000 and 2001.
We hope that you will help make up the difference with this critically important, leading-edge cybercast, and future ones. We will list your names (unless you wish anonymity) in the project as personal or company sponsors. You will have the satisfaction of helping create the new world of global intercommunication, from its beginning, outside the channels of commercial networks. As with so many important innovations, the world-wide web 'dream' has to start at the grass roots.
Explanations, background and budget and statistics follow on this page.
The AmsterDramm Project
The AmsterDramm Project is the first in a series of on-location cybercasts hosted by Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar. Composer David Dramm has organized this special concert for K&D at STEIM, Europe's leading electroacoustic/electronic music concert hall. Dramm was joined by several composers for the event, including Anne La Berge, with guest appearances by Louis Andriessen, Ruth Dreier, and Nick Didkovsky and special interviews with Jacqueline Oskamp, Frances-Marie Uitti, and Philip Mechanicus.
The AmsterDramm Project is assisted by STEIM, VuurWerk Internet for technical operations and Kanner Internet for cybercasting distribution. K&D receives technical support from WGDR and Goddard College, but has approximately $6,000 in additional requirements:
Budget for Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar to host the cybercast on September 12:
ISDN line $1,250 Phone charges $1,500 Telephone bridge $2,500 Travel/housing $ 750 Miscellaneous $ 500 |
TOTAL $6,500 |
For additional information on the participants and support organizations for the AmsterDramm projects, see the Project Page.
Final Schedule
1830 GMT / 2:30 EDT
1905 GMT / 3:05 EDT
1935 GMT / 3:35 EDT
2010 GMT / 4:10 EDT
2050 GMT / 4:50 EDT
2120 GMT / 5:20 EDT
2205 GMT / 6:05 EDT
2240 GMT / 6:40 EDT
2310 GMT / 7:10 EDT
Cybercast ends approximately 2330 GMT / 7:30 EDT
What is Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar?
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a radio show and website bringing composers to the wider world through their music, interviews, mentoring, pictures, photos, artwork, essays, biographies, attitudes, catalogs and ideas. Despite the "Bazaar" in its name, K&D doesn't sell anything, and isn't a commercial venture of any kind. The Bazaar presents the eclectic world of newly composed music in a try-it-you'll-like-it format, connects composers with each other and with audiences, and develops special programs for schools and organizations. The Bazaar is sponsored by organizations in our Vermont home -- WGDR-FM Community Radio, the Consortium of Vermont Composers, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Goddard College, and is produced by Malted/Media Productions.
What are the K&D projects?
Kalvos & Damian are always stretching for ways to bring all kinds of listeners to today's concert, chamber, electroacoustic, and performance music. Among them...
Who are Kalvos and Damian?
Kalvos and Damian are the character names for K&D hosts and composers Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and David Gunn. Dennis is the K&D webmaster as well as the founder of Malted/Media, and the key organizer of the composer mentoring project. He has created the performance pieces Echo and Stoneworld/Grey, and has a recent CD entitled Detritus of Mating. His past includes such events as the Delaware Valley Festival of the Avant-Garde. David is the mastermind behind Leisure Weasel World, and the author of short stories and other writings, and has an upcoming CD of his music performed by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble entitled Tales from the Algonquin Hole. The two composers have collaborated not only on musical projects like the chamber opera Plasm over ocean, but also on two books, the informative and humorous The Middle-Aged Hiker and the sci-fi novel The Karmora Papers. They are also co-directors of Il Gruppo Nuke Jitters, a contemporary music performance ensemble, and work as writers and editors for The Transitive Empire.
What is available on the K&D site?
You're invited to look around, especially at the individual composer pages. Start at the New Music Bazaar homepage itself, or the list of all the composers and performers who've been on the show. There's the greatest set of music resources for composers you'll find on the net, plus a good list of what sites composers themselves have been creating. We're a radio show, so you can steal musical ideas from our extensive playlists, which are linked to an index of record company websites and email addresses where you can get the audio goodies -- and, best of all, you can listen to complete, two hour broadcasts. If you're in a playful mood, try the graffiti page, where about 200 anonymous buttons will take you to music, photos, commentary, essays, graphics, and other interesting artistic objects on the web (to which you're welcome to contribute). The Best of the Bazaar offers sound mixes and splices culled from our shows and worked into Damian's unique audio art objects, and you can read his introductory essays to the show or order show cassettes. Finally, since we're on the ground in beautiful rural Vermont, we give some space to our sponsors, the Vermont Composers Consortium, their clever newsletter Consorting, the talented Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Goddard College.
Where can I hear the Bazaar?
The Bazaar is broadcast live every Saturday afternoon from 2:30 to 4:30 (1830 to 2030 GMT) on WGDR in Central Vermont on 91.1 FM and via our live cybercast.You can hear our most recent shows on AudioNet a month after our live broadcast, and a complete archive is here on KalvoNet. Check out our homepage for regular announcements as archived shows are posted. We can also be heard on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and other radio stations will also be carrying the Bazaar in the next year.
What Support is Sought?
Support requested for Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar includes financing of special projects. Among them:
Monetary support, new recordings, and in-kind supplies and labor (PC equipment, CDRs, DATs, etc.) are invited. Contributions are made to the Kalvos & Damian Program Fund of the 501(c)3 tax-exempt VCME. Contributions can be forwarded directly to Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar, 176 Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA, made out to "VCME/Kalvos & Damian". Contact Contact Form for information.
Outcomes: The K&D Goals
Many media projects -- especially those on the web -- are 'hobby' projects or fan sites. Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar is a serious effort to create a live and archived look at composers and music composition at the end of the century. We measure our effectiveness by the volume of email we exchange, the quality of the email, honest site 'numbers', and valuable acknowledgments of our work.
Both the New York Times and the Village Voice have noted K&D's resources; the Times devoted a sidebar to the K&D show on Conlon Nancarrow. We have won the site of the week award from Klassik Online (December 15, 1997) and a four-star award from Luckman's Best of the Web (August 19, 1997). Our site is accessible by W3C standards.
The K&D counter is not a so-called "hit counter". We record only one visit per host -- no matter how many pages, graphics, or sounds are used from the site. Our counter only records a single visit as people browse our pages. We use statistics to provide a better picture than counters. For example, statistics show (for August 17) that 838 'hits' were logged to files on just one of our four default homepages (formerly http://maltedmedia.com/kalvos/, http://maltedmedia.com/kalvos/kalvos.html, http://www.goddard.edu/wgdr/kalvos/, http://www.goddard.edu/wgdr/kalvos/kalvos.html, and http://sun.goddard.edu/students/wgdr/kalvos/kalvos.html), but fewer than 100 true visits were recorded for the day.
Measurement by Site Size, August 20, 1998 |
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| Audio files (music, interview clips, and archived shows) | 627 |
| Control files for audio | 559 |
| Text files ("pages") | 476 |
| Graphics files (images with "content") | 304 |
| Graphics files (design graphics, icons, and navigation) | 152 |
| Program files | 12 |
| Scores | 5 |
| Videos | 1 |
| TOTAL | 2,136 |
| Total Bytes | 2,434,905,409 (2.27GB) | Measurement by Website Visitors, April 1, 1997-August 20, 1998 |
| Unique Visitors | 46,689 | Measurement by Email, November 25, 1996-August 20, 1998 |
| Guests | 6,197 |
| Email/web resource submissions (ca. 40/month, not filed) | 1,440 |
| Between Kalvos and Damian (excludes forwarded mail) | 1,078 |
| Mentoring project (other than composer correspondence) | 1,058 |
| General visitor support (short exchanges) | 534 |
| Extended visitor support (long threads) | 426 |
| Link/information/materials submissions | 376 |
| Planning and publicity | 289 |
| Distribution of information | 152 |
| Uncategorized general email | 123 |
| Technical Issues | 87 |
| AmsterDramm cybercast | 82 |
| Mail in queue for answering | 66 |
| Archiving crisis (March 1998) | 61 |
| Labels/Presenters | 40 |
| SEAMUS cybercast | 32 |
| TOTAL | 12,041 |
AmsterDramm Project Sponsors
AmsterDramm is a trans-Atlantic project and worldwide cybercast with assistance from:
Europe: Gaudeamus - STEIM - VuurWerk - Donemus
USA: MaltedMedia - WGDR - Goddard
The AmsterDramm Project is funded by
Kalvos & Damian's Advisory Board