KevOz "sees" the music within these images, and constructs it into song. The great thing about KevOz's music is that one song can spur different thoughts and feelings from person to person. For instance, one listener may think about wheat fields swaying in a breeze while another may envision a lighthouse blinking on a starry night. This is the kind of music KevOz creates. The colorful textures and smooth soundscapes evoke feeling.
Tune in and listen for some of KevOz's interesting musical stylings, now playing in the BeOSRADIO playlist!


New "what's playing" page... Thanks to Tori "BeGirl" Anderson for the great new web-based "What's Playing" page! Tori, who's a talented coder, volunteered her efforts, and they are greatly appreciated. From now on, you can use the link, http://www.beosradio.com/cgi-bin/playlister.pl to find out what's playing, and a new feature, what's next!


A listener says thanks... John Beal II, a Network Engineer for Orcom Solutions, Inc., writes:

"Just had to comment on the great site. I've listened to many (Spinner and Radio Paradise to name a few) and your selections are best able to get me through a tough day. I also love the fact that I can listen to BeOSRadio over a dial up in my motel when I'm on the road. Must be a great OS... "

Thanks, John, it is! BeOSRADIO presently broadcasts from a very standard PC with just 64 MB of RAM, and streams out not one, not two, but three different stream bandwidths for people to connect to, all while doing other tasks in the background. BeOS is indeed a very great OS!

For those who are interested in seeing what we use for software, check out the TuneTracker web site.


New to our playlist:
Tony Cox... BeOSRADIO welcomes the classy, jazzy guitar stylings of Tony Cox to our lineup.

We are now heavily featuring music from "China", the guitar maestro's fourth album which was released in January 2002. China "presents an amazing all star cast and big sound. The album has something for everybody, from the typical Tony sound as heard on the title track China, to something for blues fans in Karoosin', an amazing song with world appeal in Wintersong, featuring a beautiful vocal performance by Wambali from Malawi."

We love his stuff, and we know you will too! To tune in and enjoy BeOSRADIO, click on one of the links in the left column of this page.


How you make us even more extreme... BeOSRADIO's "Extreme Variety" music mix caters to people who like interesting, creative music, regardless of genre. For that reason, it is not uncommon to hear rock, jazz, blues, house, acoustic guitar, world beat, and baroque, all in the same hour. It's a whole 'nother way to do radio, and our listeners seem to really like it.

We aim to provide extreme variety in other ways besides genre. We also want an extreme variety of artists and titles. So it behooves us to continue recruiting new music constantly. That's where you come in.

BeOSRADIO has a unique policy for the submission of music.. All must be original material, or songs that are in the public domain, and they must have been created by our BeOS users and listeners, or their friends and associates. We do NOT require that they have been created using the Be Operating System. All BeOS users, BeOSRADIO listeners, and their friends are welcome to submit. We just need an e-mailed note from the music's creator, giving us permission to use the material.

We can accept songs from you on CD or mini disk, off an FTP site or web server, or through the BeShare chat client. We can even accept DAT and reel-to-reel submissions. Just write to us and we'll make arrangements to get the music from you.

Thanks to everyone for helping make BeOSRADIO's "Extreme Variety" even more extreme!

New to our playlist: Gito Baloi...

BeOSRADIO has just added a unique world beat / jazz artist its playlist: Mozambiquan-born but resident of Johannesburg, South Africa, Gito Baloi. This has been made possible courtesy of BeOS user Helmar Rudolph. The songs are from his album "Na Ku Randza". The publication, Amuzine gives us some highlights:

"Having first achieved respect and recognition as an integral member of Tananas, Bass player Gito here presents his second solo album engineered by the highly regarded Peter Pearlson. Most of the songs are composed and arranged by Baloi who also plays Bass, Acoustic Guitar and handles most of the vocals.

"The album, whose title means "I love you" recalls traces of his days with Tananas except with a more pronounced Latin feel as on the track 'Liberdade'. The band comprising George Lee, Bruce Cassidy, and Vaughan Tromp excel throughout adding tightness, texture and feeling to Baloi's compositions. Chude Mondlane assists on vocals with a mixture of sensitivity and power."

Remember that if you are a musician, or have friends or associates who have produced music, and you can obtain their permission, please submit it to us! We love to continually add new and creative music to our playlist.

BeOSRADIO back on high octane...

Following a six day stint on oxygen, while our stream provider, Live365 found a new server home, BeOSRADIO is back to streaming three different bandwidths for your listening pleasure. Use the usual links on the left to tune us in!

Happy birthday to us...

BeOSRADIO is celebrating our 1st anniversary during November with special interviews, features, greetings, and a birthday month contest. Tune in to BeOSRADIO and enjoy the celebration! See the left column for information on how to listen.

To help make the celebration more festive, BeOS user and graphic artist "Keelr" has designed a BeOSRADIO 1st Anniversary comemorative desktop wallpaper, featuring a quote from right here on the web site.

Help yourself to the resolution of your choice: 800x600  1024x768  1280x1024.

Your music is our music...

As our listeners know, BeOSRADIO is committed to broadcasting only music created by BeOS users and their friends. The music need not have been created using BeOS, as long as it is completely original material. We run a format called "Extreme Variety," meaning we will play music from a very broad variety of genres, including rock, electronica, trance, alternative, house, ethnic, acoustic, even classical and jazz. The result is a wonderful ecclectic mix our listeners seem to really enjoy.

If you have created original music, or have friends and associates who have, please write to us and we'll make arrangements to get your music and review it for possible airing. Contact us today!

News Neil...

Here's a webcam grab of our newsguy, Neil Morris, reporting BeOS Radio News from his digs near London. We would be lost without this guy!

BeOSRADIO lands near the left coast...

Thanks to our friends at Benton R.E.A., BeOSRADIO is now happily resituated in Washington state, U.S.A., right on top of an Internet backbone! We are now providing our signal 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on three simultaneous bandwidths: 56k stereo, 32k mono, and 24k mono. Take your pick, and enjoy. Thanks so much to Ben Raymond at Benton R.E.A. for all his amazing help as both an advocate and maintainer of BeOSRADIO!

BeTips series launches...

In the past, we had BeTips on BeOSRADIO, but only a couple, and they burned out in a hurry, because we didn't have time to do more. Well thanks to Chris Simmons ("Technix" on BeShare), we now have whole bunches of new ones, beautifully-voiced by Beth Gould. Enjoy them every other hour at about :45 minutes past the hour on BeOSRADIO. Thanks to Scot Hacker for the written content that forms the basis of our audio BeTips. All the original material can be found at www.betips.net.

Tripling your pleasure...

Thanks to a tip from Marco Nelissen, creator of SoundPlay, BeOSRADIO has begun broadcasting THREE SIMULTANEOUS signals, to accommodate the needs of people with various Internet connection speeds.

You can now listen at 24k mono, 32k mono, or 56k stereo. With multiple bandwidths, you can select the speed that works best with your modem.

Thank you, Benews!

A major THANK YOU to the gang at BeNews for adding a beautiful new "Listen" button to their home page. What a nice thing to do! We want them to know we really appreciate it! This is what it looks like.

TuneTracker now shipping, and has its own web site...

There is now a web site devoted completely to the subject of the BRS TuneTracker™ System mentioned below. The TuneTracker™ site contains more details about the capabilities of the system. Look under "Interface" to see a screen shot. There are links to the order page and to the full documentation for the system on the site as well. You can also read more about TuneTracker™ on this site, just below.

New BeOSRADIO client...

"Pahtz" has written up a cool little application which, when run, displays the currently-playing artist and song title on your BeOS desktop! You can get "Probe for BeOSRADIO" from BeBits. Meanwhile, BeOSRADIO is also developing a desktop client with some additional features which will be available for download later.

The amazing El Mobo contributes his collection...

El Mobo, formerly known to many in the gaming community as "Moby," and creator of scores of "scores" for popular games on a number of platforms, including the Amiga, has submitted much of his wonderful library of music to BeOSRADIO. Be listening for some of his famous MOD format songs. Thanks, El Mobo!

Be sure to visit our artist page to see the complete listing of musicians whose music is heard on BeOSRADIO.

Know what's playing on BeOSRADIO...

You can now click on this link to bring up a little web page which shows the current song playing on BeOSRADIO. It's a temporary solution, but it works! We're working on better approaches even now.

Calling all BUGS...

BUG_Br, a highly active "Be User Group" located in Brazil, is sponsoring an ongoing "BugWatch" feature on BeOSRADIO. "BugWatch" will report all the upcoming events, "community calendar" style. But in this case, it's the "global community!" If you are a member of a BUG, please contact Bruno to make arrangements to provide BugWatch with regular event information. We need to hear from everybody asap! Thanks.

Set your watches!

You'll be able to set your watch by BeOSRADIO, anywhere in the world. At the top and bottom of the hour, we will announce the current time in Greenwich Mean Time format (GMT). John Mundy, a BBC radio voice, has done our time announces for us.

Adam Joseph to feature on BeOSRADIO

We're throwing shrimp on the barbie to welcome one of Australia's finest voices as the station promo voice for BeOSRADIO. Adam Joseph is the voice you'll hear on messages promoting the various offerings on BeOSRADIO. An established voice in Melbourne, Australia, Adam is heard on radio and TV commercials and narrations. His clients include Ford, Motor Company. He did voice-overs for the 'Prisoner' TV series, and "a swag of others." He has also done local talk radio on Melbourne's top talk station.

BeOSRADIO image voice by John Mundy

In keeping with the international flavor of BeOSRADIO, we are pleased to welcome highly-regarded voice-over talent John Mundy of Great Britain as our image voice. The former anchor of BBC Television's 'Northwest Tonight,' John has also been heard doing Station Identification "Sweepers" for four BBC Radio channels (Kent, Nottingham, Lancashire & Devon), as well as commercials for Mercedes, Ford, BMW, Christian Dior, and many, many others. We are honored to have him. Thank you so much, John, for being a part of BeOSRADIO!

Ryan Christianson named Producer for Interview Programming

Long-time BeOS advocate Ryan Christianson, a.k.a. "NorseLord" is our official Producer for interview programming. He is already hard-at-work, lining up interviews. If you have ideas for good guests, please drop him an e-mail. Great to have you, Ryan!

BeOS musicians - get yourself on air!

Whether you're a BeOS musician, or just a BeOS enthusiast who has created some music, submit it for possible inclusion on BeOSRADIO! Friends of BeOS enthusiasts are also welcome to submit their music. E-mail us for simple submission details! We need LOTS of music to provide the degree of variety we desire to offer on BeOSRADIO!

Features of BeOSRADIO published

Features coming to this site include "station promos" of upcoming radio programs, links to the web sites of participating musicians, and as we get closer to launch, instructions on how you can tune in!
Thanks to Beoscentral for playing host to BeOSRADIO.com!