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This was an experiment in audioblogging a live music performance. The music you hear is from a performance by Uprock at Digital Mix, a benefit for EFF.

I don’t think that bands need to worry too much any time soon about people bootlegging shows this way, although my setup was by no means ideal.

1. I wasn’t getting a strong signal from inside the performance space
2. I have a 3+ year-old Sanyo SCP-4000 cellphone
3. The acoustics in the performance space were not that great
4. I could definitely have picked a better spot from which to take the recording

and, of course, there’s the roughly 4 KHz bandpass filter imposed by the telephone network. Nonetheless, I think this was a very promising experiment. Most importantly, I think it is a good justification for investing in a newer, better cellphone.