Issue02
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February 96
welcome to the second Station Rose News Letter! The first issue
was a flashback on Station Rose`s activities during the last 12 months and
provided you with a general outlook on what Gary Danner and Elisa Rose have
in mind in 1996. This issue will take a closer look at some of their recent
activities. So dive into these digital news and enjoy ...
THIS MONTH`S HEADLINES (details below):
THIS MONTH`S NEWS IN DETAIL
Towards a virtual company (I): Pino Grzybowsky new manager of
Station Rose´s "Gunafa" label
Pino Grzybowsky is new manager of Station Rose`s "Gunafa" label.
According to Rose/Danner`s plan to cooperate with strong partners he is
looking for independent and major companies ready for entering the field
of hypermedia.
Companies interested in working together with Station Rose have two possibilities:
they can either invest in the "Gunafa" label and make use of Station
Rose`s hypermedia knowhow (transfer of information), or directly sign the
act "Station Rose" for one or more hypermedia publications.
Background: Danner & Rose know that sooner or later the typical music
business strategies of "signing bands", "making records"
and "selling popstars" via entertainment-CD-ROMs worked out by
hired multimedia experts will become obsolete. They are sure the time is
right for creative collaborations between music companies and true hypermedia
artists. Majors across the Atlantic seem to have recognized the sign of
the times and are looking for artists equipped with the multimedia knowhow
that helps them taking the necessary step into the next millenium. SONY
USA signing Mark Canter`s "Media Band", which is not a "band"
in the rock sense of the word but a sound & vision project publishing
CD-ROMs, is a good example. For Rose & Danner it is the right time for
open-minded music companies in Europe to take similar steps.
Grzybowsky`s task is to make these companies acquainted with the new possibilities
of Station Rose and their "Gunafa" label - a more than visionary
label which handles all formats ranging from vinyl, audio-CD to CD-ROM and
CD-plus.
Being a renowned musician, producer and label-owner himself, Grzybowsky
is equipped with a lot of technical knowhow, business experience and personal
connections. His various excursions into the field of electronic music include
successful solo projects like "Durst 20", "T minus 20 sec",
"Muehls" and "Rubbersmell Recordings" as well as collaborations
like "Cracked", "Infrarot", "O/P" and "Hollywood
Sound Machine". His labels are called "Gala", "Lobotone"
and "Marshall".
With Pino Grzybowsky as their new label manager Station Rose have taken
another step towards the realization of their idea of a virtual company.
Grzybowsky is operating from his Frankfurt office/studio and can be reached
via e-mail:
pino@frankfurt.netsurf.de
Towards a virtual company (II): Freddy Hahne new US manager of
Station Rose
The virtual Station Rose company is beginning to show its contures. With
Freddy Hahne Danner & Rose bid another team member welcome. Living in
San Francisco, Hahne seems to be the perfect choice for the job of Station
Rose`s US manager. Being part of the multimedia scene around Howard Rheingold
he is personally linked with some legendary activists of the Sixties - one
of the reasons why his credits as an artist include stage designs and multimedia
environments for the last concerts of cult rock band The Grateful Dead.
Freddy Hahne is the American counterpart of Alexander Wild, who works as
German manager of Station Rose. Like Wild and Pino Grzybowsky he can be
reached via e-mail. People who are interested in the "Gunafa"
label or want to book Gary Danner & Elisa Rose for gigs and lectures
in America can send their messages to the following adress: really@well.com
Let`s do it again: Danner & Rose "working on their new
CDextra- album"
Making fun of the rock business, especially of rock star behaviour, is one
of the favourite leisure time activities of Station Rose. Therefore, the
official announcement that Danner & Rose have started "working
on their new album" cannot be taken too seriously.
Yes, it is true that Station Rose "are in the studio". But what
they do is miles away from what Aerosmith do when they are "in the
studio": Instead of recording songs for an audio CD within a certain
amount of time, they are comfortably sitting in their multimedia homestudio
working on sounds & images for their new CD-extra.
Like "Icons, Morphs & Samples" the next CD-extra by Station
Rose will contain several audio-tracks and interactive material. Yet it
will be very different from "Icons, Morphs & Samples" - due
to several technical innovations. One of these innovations makes it possible
to establish a direct link between the CD-extra and the "Station Rose
Homepage" on the server of "The Well". Which means, that
the two basic ways of hypermedia art production - Internet art and CD-ROM
art - can be connected directly. Another step forward will be the extended
use of full-scale animations.
For Station Rose "working on their new CD-extra album" means exploring
a new dimension of switching permanently between
a) Internet art within the World Wide Web, and
b) CD-ROM art: A lot of the material they are now developing will make its
way to their "Homepage" at "The Well", showing new possibilities
for Internet creatives. The complete work of art, however, the final complex
oeuvre, will be published on CD-extra, which again is equipped with direct
links to the Internet page. After several phases of learning and experimenting
with multimedia Danner & Rose now begin to mix the various techniques
they have acquired during the last years.
Animating the internet: "Shockwave"
technology used on Station Rose´s renowned Homepage
The constant search for technological innovation and new means of artistic
expression has called Station Rose`s attention to "Shockwave",
a technology developed by "Macromedia". It is the first technology
that makes it possible to establish full-scale animations on a www page.
Station Rose are using "Shockwave" on their Homepage at "The
Well", thereby making an important contribution to the animation of
the Internet: After non-interactive small-scale quicktime movies these new
interactive full-scale animations equipped with buttons for further internet
surfing carry a lot of additional movement into the World Wide Web.
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