Steve_Savitzky / About_Bleeding_Time : CDROM

About Bleeding Time!

Well, it's About Bleeding Time that Steve Savitzky got his CD done, isn't it? Too bad this isn't it. What's spinning in your computer's CD drive right now is the bonus disk that you got for pre-ordering the real CD, Coffee, Computers, and Song!, for $20.

About Bleeding Time is a dual-session (CD-extra) disk. The audio portion contains about 30 minutes of music, taken from performances in 2006. The CDROM portion, which you're looking at now, contains my complete songbook (my songs plus a few in the public domain that I perform), some unpublished science fiction that provides additional backstory for "Demon Lover" and "Rambling Silver Rose", quite a lot of software (including all my Makefile templates and Perl scripts), and (if I can shoehorn it in) a concert video (the infamous "stunt capo" version of "Demon Lover" from Baycon 2006).

The preorder package is a signed limited edition of 256 copies of both disks, numbered (in hex, of course) from 00 to FF. 00 is reserved for the Interfilk auction at GAFilk, and will consist of four disks, including preliminary burns of ABT and CC&S and a unique hardcopy edition of the songbook. FF is reserved for the Interfilk auction at Consonance.

Note: in some cases you will find more things in here by examining the disk in a file browser rather than using a web browser.

CDROM Contents:

About_Bleeding_Time/

Simply a copy of the web directory for this album. No, it's not recursive -- there's a lot on this CDROM that isn't on the web. But it does have a lot of stuff, like the track list, that in a real album would be on the jewel-case inserts. It also has the .oggs and .mp3s copied over from the working directory; the link above points to the extended index. Not as clean as I'd like it to be; I got rushed a little.

Coffee_Computers_and_Song/

A copy of the web directory for Coffee, Computers, and Song! as of the time this disk was mastered. No guarantees about how long it will stay that way; what you're seeing is a snapshot. Again, the .oggs and .mp3s are copied over from the working directory and the link above points to the extended index.

Fiction/

There's not much in here, just a couple of rough drafts written a long time ago and badly in need of revision. Hacktown is the backstory behind "Demon Lover" and a number of other songs; Rosie was directly inspired by "Rambling Silver Rose" and a chance remark by Kathy Mar that I took as a challenge. Neither has ever been published.

Software/

The Audacity audio recording and editing program used in producing this CD (in versions suitable for use on Linux, Windows, and MacOS), and the makefiles used in maintaining my websites.

Songs/

This is probably the main reason for having this CDROM: it's essentially my entire songbook as of the day this disk was mastered. The only songs missing are the ones I didn't write (and aren't in the public domain) and the ones I haven't finished. A copy of the web directory.

Tools/

All of the shell scripts, perl scripts, and Makefile templates used in the production of this CD, and most of the ones used on my website. A copy of the web directory.

Licensing

This is filk. Basically, you can do whatever you like with my music except make money off it, and you can do that by paying the usual license fees. So, except as noted on the appropriate lyrics page (songs in the public domain, for example) all music and text are published under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike US license v3.0.

Except as noted (e.g. for third party applications and libraries), all software applications are published under the GPL version 2 or later; libraries, including Perl modules, Java classes, include files and make templates, are licensed under the LGPL version 2 or later.

Except as noted (e.g. for third-party software, traditional songs, etc.) it's all copyright by Stephen Savitzky and published by Stephen Savitzky doing business as HyperSpace Express.