Intro to Media Studies BBS


Message from: seppo helava (helava@lucien.mit.edu)
About: Welcome to our minds

Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:28:23 -0500 (EST)

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    http://www.bitstream.net/psykosonik/psykohome.html

    This is the official homepage of a band called Psykosonik, maintained by
    Paul Sebastien, one of the band's members. What makes this page
    particularly interesting is this: while most bands reach out to their
    audience through their music, on CD, or in magazine articles, television
    appearances, etc., Psykosonik is able to express themselves in a manner
    not traditionally associated with most bands. For instance, recently I
    recieved an e-mail from Psykosonik notifying me that a new "interactive
    world" was now up of their web page for downloading. On the webpage are
    various band-related pages of artwork, song samples, several of the
    aforementioned "interactive worlds", video clips, articles, audio
    interviews, and much more. What makes this page interesting is that it is
    a way for this band to express themselves in a multitude of very distinct
    styles, which is something that is generally not possible with
    traditional audio CDs. The fact that the web page is maintained by one of
    the band members, and not some hired third party is interesting, as well.
    The effect is very different, as the continuity of the body of work
    that's presented is very good, and the "feel" from the web page to the
    music to the various artwork is uniform, and not discontinuous like many
    'third-party' web pages.

    seppo



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