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[ADMIN] GNO server maintenance

lawrence — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:23:10 +0000

Our server maintenance will start in two hours, so will Mini MIDI 2007, I wonder if it’s coincidental.

Anyway, here are the maintenance dates/times as sent to us by the hosting company:

First window: Monday, April 30th 2007 11:00 PM - Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 2:30 AM PDT

Second window: Thursday, May 3rd 2007 11:00 PM - Friday, May 4th 2007, 2:30 AM PDT

Rest assure that it’s not another server breakdown if you can’t access GNO in the above timeframe.

[Admin] Upgrade completed

lawrence — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:26:19 +0000

Wordpress 2.1.3 running on GNO.

[Admin] Upgrade

lawrence — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:41:39 +0000

I’m going to upgrade the back end program of GNO today and there is going to be a short period of outage.

[Admin] GNO back to China

lawrence — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:09:38 +0000

With our effort, Chinese New Ear/GNO is now accessible again in mainland China.

[Admin] GNO GFWed?

lawrence — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 16:31:25 +0000

GNO is currently inaccessible from mainland China without a
proxy. We’re investigating the problem. All the rest of the recordings
of 2pi Festival 2006 will be pending.

GNO bloggers at work, Nov 3, 2006

lawrence — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:33:09 +0000

Venue courtesy of Jing Lei.

GNO turned one!

lawrence — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:13:43 +0000

Today is the first anniversary of GNO (Global Noise Online), click here to read some posts from one year ago.

Admin note

lawrence — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:51:59 +0000

13:49, Oct 27, 2006. Beijing Internet Status Report (ISP: Wang Tong)

Can access: New York Times, Guardian, Google.cn, tor.eff.org, Skype, and of course all Chinese sites.

Can’t access: Gmail, Google.com, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, and GNO.

So the loads of photos of MusicAcoustica ‘06 have to stay on our harddisks for a while……

It’s been a year

lawrence — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:53:32 +0000

GNO is turning one at the end of this month! We’ll have a surprise for you very soon, and together with our host site Chinese New Ear, we’ll participate in the MusicAcoustica 2006 conference presented by the Electroacoustic Music Association of China (EMAC) and the China Electronic Music Center (CEMC). The conference runs from Oct. 22 to 29 in Beijing. Notable participant includes Curtis Roads, the author of Computer Music Tutorial which is regarded as the bible of computer music textbooks, and Microsound. A simplified-Chinese version of CMT is expected to hit the shelves in March, 2007. It’s impossible to exhaust Mr Roads’ contribution to the academic world of computer music here, but if you need something you can relate to in a Chinese context, he’s the tutor of Prof. Kenneth Fields - who performed at Sounding Beijing 2003 and is a significant figure in the Chinese academic system of computer / electroacoustic music, and Stefanie Ku, who played at Get It Louder ‘05 in Shanghai.

Btw, I’ve added a “Support GNO” page at the top of this page, go and take a look (and action) if you like the blog. No I’m not asking you for money, well, sort of not. ^_^

Long time no posts, so here’s one

lawrence — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:39:09 +0000

Sorry for the hiatus of posts, I’ve been busy translating a lot of sound art-related texts, for instance Justin Zhong Minjie’s artist’s statement for his Phonography project with D-Fuse, the articles and lecture transcriptions which will be published by British Council China as a book documenting their Sound and the City project last year (the book is edited by Yan Jun). In the meantime I have to keep track of the Battersea thing too, speaking of which, it turned out that the deserted power station is being strictly protected to the point that you can’t even hang a poster on the walls inside, and no audience will be admitted to Turbine Hall B, which we thought could be used for our Chinese sound art survey exhibition. Well actually it _is_ for that purpose but since you can’t get in and the space is huge (30 * 80 metres, with a height of around 25 metres), there’s no point in placing the PA system inside and having audience listening outside. So we ended up putting the loudspeakers on the 30 * 15 metres platform in front of the entrance. Not an ideal scenario but I think the double-CD compilation that we planned to release as a document of the exhibition weighs more.

Ok, end of transmission and back to the temporary blog-free zone……