Hand Delivered Radio

[JackSpratts]

What’s the opposite of “Broadcast”? Narrowcast? Well in this case, try microcast. The show is called Acts of Volition Radio. It’s all about obscure gems and it comes from Canada. Each program is prerecorded, then hosted from a server, not streamed, and available to you in however long it takes to download a 30 to 60 megabyte file. It’s yours to keep of course, although the CRIA may chime in with something to say about that, even if the new artists themselves are happy to be featured.

The host is Steven Garrity, a gentle musical elitist with a sweet sense of humor (he’s knows he's an elitist, but he’s from Canada so how superior can he be?)

This is a great way to do a show. I’d like to give it try myself. It’s both low tech and high tech and at the same time points up the folly of the RIAA’s policy of hyper control. It sounds like fun. If you do get one of his programs why not share it…

I am.

- js.