Alban’s blog

For 4 years, Radio Esperanzah! capture about 30 hours of live each year for the Esperanzah! festival. Until the 2007 edition, we used various recorders (from Archos Gemini to Tascam Compact Flash recorder). But recording something like 20 concerts with a mobile device consumes a lot of time. Lives at Esperanzah! are performed sequentially on two stages. You need to plug and unplug everything 80 minutes and move the capture system to the other stage. It’s painful.

For this 2007 edition, we betted on a new system : install a computer on each stage for the whole festival. The idea is simple : each “satellite” records continuously and recorded files are retrieved periodically by our NAS server via wifi. No (or less) useless movement, the same setup installed for the three days of festival, no cable to plug/unplug, …

A great idea … but it required a lot of preparation. Here are some of the problems we had to solve.

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Massilia Sound System vient mettre le Oai du côté de la Porte de Versailles (vu la m…. qu’on se tape d’habitude dans le quartier, ca fait du bien !!). Vendredi 20 mai à la Porte de Versailles, c’est 3 heures de bon temps qui nous attendent Et histoire de nous nettoyer les cages à miel, y a plein d’autres choses dans le cadre du festival 100 Pur Son.

Mais y pas que le conos de la capitale qui pourront en profiter: les dates de la tournée du Massilia “La Comedia Provençala”.

This evening, we went to the Bataclan. The first guest was the John Butler Trio. And that sounds beautiful !!! These three guys are terrific. The official site makes available audio in flac format. Visit the french official site for more details about the french tour.