Log On, Plug In and Start Making Music -- MC2 Launches mc2mag.com; Site Features Wide Range of Streaming Content and Free Music Software.Entertainment Editors SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 13, 2000 With its debut issue on newsstands, MC2 (music/computers/culture) has launched its companion Web site, mc2mag.com. Like the magazine, mc2mag.com is designed to inform and inspire young musicians who are using computer and Internet technologies to make, manipulate and share music. Part of MusicPlayer.com, the super site for musicians, mc2mag.com provides easy access to content uniquely created to benefit today's 15 to 25-year-old music makers. The new site functions as far more than an online version of MC2. As it evolves, mc2mag.com will bring dynamic "added-value" content to the magazine's coverage of music and computers, including streaming music and video previews, demos and tutorials, shareware downloads, rant rooms, webcasts, the chance to ask questions, plus online gear giveaways and extended versions of artist interviews appearing in MC2. In conjunction with MC2's premiere issue, mc2mag.com is currently featuring a Web-only photo album of DJ Skribble at the WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. restaurant in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , plus an exclusive video of Skribble performing in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Other items include streaming MP3s of DJ Atomix and MC2 editor Kent Carmical in a remix match on the grooveboxes from Korg, Roland and Yamaha that are reviewed in the magazine; a more comprehensive version of the magazine's interview, complete with an extensive gear list, with British remix stars Apollo 440; plus plenty of links for the latest Mac and PC shareware. Coming up is new content including Flash animations and streaming videos that show artists using the newest music-making technologies. MC2 editor Kent Carmical said, "We're using the website to bring our audience the sounds, sights and experience of making music with computers that you just can't put on printed pages. Now, with MC2 and mc2mag.com, you can read it, see it, hear it, and do it. There's no excuse not to get plugged in and start making your own groove!" MC2 publisher GPI (Graphical Programming Interface) A graphics language in OS/2 Presentation Manager. It is a derivative of the GDDM mainframe interface and includes Bezier curves. Music Group's MusicPlayer.com includes sites for other GPI publications Guitar Player, Keyboard, Bass Player and Gig, in addition to mc2mag.com. A division of Miller Freeman An earlier subsidiary of United News & Media (www.unm.com). Miller Freeman was a leading trade show organizer and publisher serving a variety of industries. In 1996, it acquired the Blenheim Group, producers of the popular PC EXPO trade show, and in 1999, it acquired the CMP PSN (Packet-Switched Network) A communications network that uses packet switching technology. PSN - Packet Switch Node , GPI is the leading publisher of musician magazines in the world. For more information about MC2, contact publisher Valerie Pippin Pippin. For Frankish rulers thus named, use Pepin. A multimedia game and Internet machine from Apple that used the PowerPC architecture and a limited version of the Mac OS. at 650/513-4340 or at vpippin@mfi.com. MC2 is the only resource specifically designed to reach the young musicians who are increasingly drawn to the computer as a primary creative tool. MC2 presents tutorials, columns on shareware music apps, DJing, and hard-disk recording, as well as reviews of games and music every month. The magazine's Web site, MC2mag.com, also includes product demos, shareware audio, Web and video apps, previews of new music, videos, and animation-plus promotions and giveaways. The GPI Music Group publishes GUITAR PLAYER, KEYBOARD, BASS PLAYER, GIG, MC2, the MUSIC TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, the GUITAR & BASS BUYER'S GUIDE MUSIC GEAR ONLINE (www.musicgearonline.com), EXTREME GROOVE.COM, and along with MusicPlayer.com (www.musicplayer.com), is part of The Music Player Network, a division of Miller Freeman PSN, Inc. The Miller Freeman PSN Entertainment Technology Group manages magazines, web sites and tradeshows for the professional music, audio, video, and installation industries including PRO SOUND NEWS, EQ, SURROUND PROFESSIONAL, RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS, MUSIC WEEK, MUSIC BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL, FONO, STUDIO SOUND, VIDEOGRAPHY vid·e·og·ra·phy n. The art or practice of using a video camera. vid  e·og , CONTENT CREATION EUROPE, INSTALLATION EUROPE, AUTOMEDIA, CARSOUND, GOVERNMENT VIDEO, TELEVISION BROADCAST, TVB TVB Television BureauTVB Ti Voglio Bene (Italian: I Love You) TVB Television Bureau of Advertising TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (Hong Kong) TVB Top Vs. EUROPE, ONE-TO-ONE, SYSTEMS CONTRACTOR NEWS, MEDIALINE, GOVERNMENT VIDEO EXPO, SURROUND 2000, and DOTMUSIC.COM, the number one music web site in the UK. Miller Freeman PSN is an operating division of Miller Freeman UK, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of the United News & Media, plc, one of the world's largest publishers and tradeshow organizers. With divisions in Europe, Asia and the U.S., Miller Freeman produces more than 290 publications and 380 events worldwide. |
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