Le Cochon Bleu. BLUE PIG CHANNEL

1. Trying, however (very) slowly and (so far very) modestly, to grapple with HOME FILM PRODUCTION. In 5 yrs time will this be a world of people with the know-how & skills, the easy ability, to go & produce any fully 'professional' quality video on request within days? A music video accompaniment, a product commercial ad, an artistic short film, a community society presentation? (More likely 25 yrs time before I'd count myself having such skills!) Camcorder & home editing culture surely means, because of persons' interest & hobby, the world has many who could easily replace those who make film we see on TV. An easy availability of technology & the new age in communications mean the world is changing beyond recognition. 25 years ago, a 'western' country called United Kingdom had 4 channels and, for nearly everyone, film media choice was the same. In all aspects of what was / can be broadcast, from social + political comment to cultural activity to comedy, news, movies. A bygone era. While those 4 channels keep a significant stranglehold (still typical in many countries) it's strange for me to find that quality & choice of their programmes has declined substantially within those 25 years, the very time when the channels' monopoly of film media viewing began to disappear. Many hope that broader choice in film media can lead to better quality & greater integrity in professional broadcasting. While yesterday (June '10) I find Stephen Fry's admirable comments that The BBC years ago ceased producing nearly any decent drama for adults + often screens nothing adult at all in the evenings.

2. SHARING RARE / OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE RECORDINGS that mean a lot to me where possible. And PROMOTING CERTAIN SPECIAL INTEREST RECORDINGS that are available.

PARTICULAR INTERESTS:
House / Club dance music, & what people call Classical Music but which I prefer to call Art Music. Also independent & artistic film making. And using film to communicate in social, political and cultural ways (as the black print of magazines and papers did, does & of course always will do even with great new media).

Blue Pig Channel laments the fact that modern, serious art music is so little heard, while is so extremely hard to promote or share. I guess much of this music will still be in copyright by when I die. This area of contemporary sound arts has so few people making listening to it a part of their lives It's a vicious circle: Music makers need copyri