built and maintains ArtistServer. Named one of the best music hosting services

by Time Magazine, ArtistServer is a leading music-hosting site that empowers

independent and unsigned musicians with the ability to host, stream, blog, podcast,

and offer ringtones of their music that site members can download for free.

In Part 1 of the interview, Marken discusses the inspiration for creating ArtistServer

and his personal commitment to keeping the focus on the artists. In addition

to talking about how the site works and the unique services it offers both musicians

and music fans of all genres, Marken offers tips and ideas on using the tools

ArtistServer provides to help artists build recognition and a larger fan base.

During Part 2 of the interview, Marken discusses the elements of electronic music,

how most electronic music is produced (using sequencers, samplers, synthesizers)

and its expansion into movies and commercials. Artists interested in new ideas

for music will want to hear what Marken says about using data such as weather

and/or stock market patterns, RSS feeds and found media on the Web to create

fractal music. Marken describes fractal music as usually being created by assigning

musical rules and attributes to some form of data or numerical process to generate

music.

About the MusiciansCast Podcast Station

Professional musician Jonn Savannah, mixing and recording legend Shelly Yakus

and communications insider Peter Bowman team up to hammer out the real and controversial

issues currently facing the music industry.

About ArtistServer

Launched in 2001, ArtistServer provides extensive RSS feed support, podcasting

and blog services that are used by nearly 5.000 artists of all genres to host

and promote their music. Typically, the site is accessed by more than 20,000

music fans, plus a host of unique visitors, each month. Traffic continues to

increase as new artists, content and services are introduced.

Consistently first to offer innovative features, IndieMobile.com, the site’s

Ringtone Section and Service, is unique to ArtistServer. With IndieMobile, artists

can upload an MP3 ringtone along with every song hosted on the site. The site

provides a ‘transfer tool’ to assist visitors in downloading the free ringtone

or sending it to their phone. Music Map, a “Mashup” of Yahoo! Maps and the music

on ArtistServer, allows visitors to select a musical genre, view its distribution

on a map, zoom in, click on artists, and listen to their music. The site also

offers ArtistJukebox.com, a playlist generator that pulls music from ArtistServer’s

enormous catalog of independent breakbeat, new age, indie, techno, grunge and

other music genres.