I confess to being the producer/designer of the Mozart "Dissonant" Quartet
CD-ROM back in the day. Colin and my stays at Voyager overlapped for a time.
Robert Winter, the author of the program had the foresight to retain rights to
the content. I work with him at UCLA and we have been working to re-release the
programs as circumstances allow.
Another version of one, Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, has been out for a
while. I programmed it in iShell, and have intentions to convert it to RunRev:
http://www.artsinteractive.org
The issue of intellectual rights is a great discussion. It's important to note
that copyrights do expire at some point....
In our case the issues were a personal one that I can't get into, and the
difficulty with licensing the recorded music that is a critical part of the
program. We're happy to have now worked out a deal with major recording company
and are on a trajectory to bringing back this stuff to life.
Also, a major holdup with a lot of the material in the past was the difficulty
with distribution. Voyager was always bedeviled by it. Where did you sell these
physical products in the pre-Internet days? Software stores charged for shelf
space and no other brick and mortar really carried much. So sales were mostly
catalog/mail order to libraries, and individuals who happened to find out about
them.
Of course, that has all now changed.
And, I am happy to be now using RunRev to accomplish the cross-platform things
we couldn't do in the misty past, as well as entering the mobile world.
Peter Bogdanoff
UCLA
On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Somewhere in the Attic of my house in Scotland there is a voyager CD of
> something to do with music by Mozart, and as
> far as I remember, it was rather good stuff; and, luckily, in the attic there
> are 5 Macs that can cope with it - the best being
> a 5200 something; and, down the stairs there are 3 iMacs slot-loading all
> running Mac OS 9. I hope to get over there in the Summer
> and arrange for quite a bit of that stuff to be transported to Bulgaria
> (especially my dear BBC Master).
>
> Now, I don't know who produced the Mozart CD, but I would be quite prepared
> to buy a version that functioned on a contemporary OS,
> say Debian derivative linux!
>
> I really wonder if the chap who wrote the software and had the idea realises
> that with a small amount of effort s/he could
> re-jig the thing for the current market. However s/he doesn't stand a chance
> if some middle-man (publisher) is sitting on the
> thing and won't let her/him do that.
>
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