Yes, we succumbed. Come looik at our
Facebook page. It should give us a way to put out information
quickly, without having to edit HTML. Who knows, maybe we'll start a
blog soon!
The web site has undergone a long-overdue update not only to its content, but also to its internals.
For a long time, web sites were at the mercy of whatever fonts the viewer happened to have installed. As a result, web pages either stuck to a safe list of likely fonts (with a backup of a generic category like "sans-serif" if even those aren't available) or put up graphics with text drawn on it. Good luck if you're blind.
Now, though, the @font-face construct lets style sheets refernce fonts that you have uploaded just as you upload web pages or graphics. We are making use of it to let you see the web site as we wish it seen. Unfortnately, Internet Explorer only accepts a proprietary file format for @font-face, so if you use it, you'll mot see the site as we intend. That and IE's notoriety for security issues and ongoing incompatibilities with web standards cause us to urge you to switch from Internet Explorer to another browser:
Speaking of fonts: we use the following here:
Here we are concerned with early music, not software, but... Concentio Agnorum uses Free and Open Source software exclusively, and when we saw a chance to help out in a very small way we took it.
There’s a visually breathtaking Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and called MoonOS. The available sources for download of the new version are slow, and we have disk space, so... you can retrieve the ISO file and MD5 file for MoonOS 3.0 (32-bit ISO and MD5, or 64-bit ISO and MD5).
Concentio Agnorum will perform on the first and last days of the
2010 Iowa State Fair, August 12 and 22. Watch for details of time and
place; we will add them as they become available.
This year will be our fourth at the State Fair, not a venue one would think of for early music. In 2007. our first year at the Fair, we had the privilege of performing with the famous Tubador. We played a Praetorius volta, and still hope that in the future we can perhaps play de la Torre's “Alta” or, if we can find a fourth to fill in, the “Gloria” from Dufay's Missa ad modum tubae, with the Tubador's assistance.
Concentio Agnorum now has a Frappr map. Come declare yourself to be a friend of Concentio Agnorum! As time goes on we will post to the blog and perhaps put up pictures. (Taking pictures of oneself while playing is kind of hard, and we can’t afford roadies or a photographer. If you have photos of us that you’d like to show off, let us know.)
Concentio Agnorum has the honor of being played on a fine audio stream.
BeOS Radio perhaps needs a bit of background. It started out as a way to promote the BeOS operating system by featuring performers who used it. Later, any performer or group whose works are original or in the public domain and not subject to the iron whim of the RIAA could send them music to play. More recently, they've “fine-tuned” their format, and no longer play pop or rock. Despite this, they still live up to their “Extreme Variety” tag, and, in foolscap’s personal opinion, are just about the perfect radio station. (This seems odd, since they’re not actually on radio, but...)
Concentio Agnorum has succumbed to the temptation to put silly things up for purchase at a Café Press store. At our store you can get bumper stickers and T-shirts, and we'll come up with more things, and more silly text to choose from for said things, as time goes on.
Concentio Agnorum has come out with its first CD, Five Early Pieces. The title is a bit of misnomer, as it also contains a sixth bonus track.
Also, Concentio Agnorum appears on Songs of the Faire, an anthology of artists who have appeared at the Siouxland Renaissance Festival.
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