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So RMF files allow surfers to listen to music, noises, or "soundtracks" while they're online. Whereas MP3 is a downloadable format - effectively, a form of distribution - RMF files are so tiny that they don't need to be downloaded to be heard. Beatnik's RMF complements MP3 nicely, in that it performs a very different sonic function online.
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Web music has been in the news ever since the great MP3 panic, during which record companies had conniptions and unsigned bands were elated to discover that the MP3 digital audio format would allow users to download music to their computers or MP3 players and listen to it without ever going to a record store.Īs far as Robertson is concerned, MP3 makes perfect sense - it's an example of how web music can serve the interests of artists, even relatively unknown ones. It's very much the same situation on the web today, where artists are driving the medium forward by taking hold of it and building their own websites."
"I was always a visual artist," he notes, "and after my first brush with music videos, I basically learned to do them myself. Robertson explains that ironically, his hit songs like "She Blinded Me with Science" didn't get radio play until they had come into heavy rotation on MTV. Like film, the web is about to undergo a revolutionary process as sound is integrated into every aspect of its structure, from noises that accompany "nav bars" (places where you click to navigate a site), to soundtracks associated with pages or pictures.įor Robertson, it's like the early days of MTV all over again, when his and other artists' groundbreaking music videos brought visuals into a previously aural medium.
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Or consider how humorless a Marx Brothers movie would be without the goofy accents and verbal puns. Imagine, for example, the movie Halloween without its famous soundtrack. Sound needs to become a first-class citizen on the web," Robertson decrees.Īlthough most people don't focus on the meaning of sound outside the music industry, it's a crucial part of most visual media. "At this point, entertainment and high tech need to collaborate on sound. But while Beatnik's recently appointed CEO Lorraine Hariton strategizes about the company's revenue plans, Robertson is still most interested in the marriage of music and science. Robertson is talking shop in the Silicon Valley offices of Beatnik, whose recent accumulation of venture capital is likely to send the company into a growth spurt.
Nobody is really sure what to do with it yet," says Robertson, looking like a slightly funked-out geek sitting next to a giant web display in his black beret. "On the web, it's as if we're living in 1929, the point when sound began to get used in movies. With the Beatnik Audio Engine and Rich Music Format (RMF), Robertson's company is making the mostly silent Internet into something that can talk or play music without interminable download times or memory-intensive streaming audio.
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In 1994, Robertson founded a company that eventually became Beatnik ( which has recently released a series of tools and digital audio formats for "sonifying," or bringing sound, to the web. Seventeen years later, under the name Thomas Dolby Robertson, this MTV pioneer is still living in a cybernetic world. The song was called "Europa," and the musician's name was Thomas Dolby - a kind of cyborg name, as if he were the spawn of a speaker system instead of a person. Over thickly textured synths, this charismatic madman wandered through a kinetic, surreal landscape, singing about a girl he met during wartime when he was 14. Done in sepia tones reminiscent of late-19th-century photographs, it featured a young man who looked like a mad scientist. One transfixing video we saw that night burned itself into my adolescent memory, because it fully embodied the peculiar and seductive new aesthetic of music video-ness.
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IT WAS 1982 and I was discovering MTV at a slumber party full of my chocolate-dosed and hormone-addled 13-year-old girlfriends.
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