Damn, I wish we could give Thanks in this forum.

Thanks, nwerneck! I'll have to look up your thesis - maybe I can make the students in my Research Methods course find it (I teach, part-time, at a faculty of music). I completely agree with you, especially when it comes to quiet recording spaces. I've actually been adding some carefully selected noise to recordings lately, to mask little problems in the audio chain. The best advice I've heard is "do an amazing performence", in which case no one will notice the recording quality!

Thanks, Texrat! I haven't listened to the new song, but will do so today. I certainly agree with you on the sound of MP3s - I bought new studio monitor speakers last year (Genelec), and now most of my music collection sounds like crap... unless I play the original, non-MP3 files.

And Thanks, Fontus! I love singing early music, especially trying to stay true to the original tuning. If you're interested in alternative scales and tuning systems, check out Scala <http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/>. Powerful stuff!

I love that there are so many skilled, capable musicians involved in Maemo. It's a (barely) hidden strength of the project.

I'll have to give the Byzantine music a listen in a few minutes, when this MASSIVE thunderstorm goes past. Same for the new hillbilly music - can't miss that! (hmm, that's an interesting mix...)

I've been working on some multitracked vocal music lately (just like Qole, I'm a choir guy), but it's far from done. Too busy with my other recording project, creating audio lectures for work (in Cultural Enterprise, or the business of culture). Anyway, I'll post the vocal stuff this autumn, if/when I find time to get it done.