Oggy Live Today

We’ll have a Christmas Live Party next time 12/24 (Fri) 18:30 – 23:00 on Facebook Live! Please join if you have some time!

https://fb.me/e/1k68ZV50x

This site has been minor renewed, for the first time in these 14 years. The new design, though not a complete rebuild, went through the repeated trials so should be able to be better read and navigated, while preserving the existing concept.  The site is now “Oggy Live Today”, named after the live streaming. The menu structures and the other various parts are also improved.  The past articles are still accessible. I hope you like it! Please let me know if you find any bugs or issues

Oggy, krystalcube, along with other artists, are featured in the IMCJ special page for TIMM ONLINE (2020/11/4～11/6)!

Krystalcube, bringing one of the cutest female vocal tastes and the acoustic guitar sound, joined Oggy Live Today on 11/4 and 11/5, during the TIMM ONLINE.

Oggy Live Today also plans to welcome a special guest (11/6).

About TIMM, IMCJ and IRMA

TIMM, Tokyo International Music Market, is an event to showcase Japanese music for listeners worldwide, and held online during 11/4 – 11/6 this year.

IMCJ, Independent Music Coalition Japan, is a cross industrial organization for indies community, which holds “IMCJ digital week”, as well as the above special page during TIMM period.

IRMA, Specified Nonprofit Corporation Independent Records and Musicians Association, is a body for indies music scene, and one of the founding members of IMCJ. This time, Oggy and krystalcube, has been listed in the IMCJ page for TIMM, entering through IRMA, with which Scaleout has a contact.

So stay tuned!

I released another video.

Oggy talks about the overall picture of his various activities with Parallel Entrepreneurship.

Overall picture of activities with Parallel Entrepreneurship

Go to the video page

Two videos of Oggy Live Today 100th have been uploaded.

• Greetings from 100th Oggy Live Today
• Reviewing 100 times of Oggy Live Today
  Oggy talks about his music and reviews the 100 times of the online live.

Go to the video page

Enjoy the jazzy guitar and songs 

Topics

• 100th Live
• What’s up today

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Dear friends,
How are you doing under the COVID-19 situation?
I hope everyone’s health and safety.
Oggy is doing online live everyday.

Date: & Time: Everyday

• Japan: 22:30 – 23:00 (JST)
• California: 6:30 – 7:00 (PDT)
• Chicago: 8:30 – 9:00 (CDT)
• NewYork: 9:30 – 10:00 (EDT)
• London: 14:30 – 15:00 (BST)
• As long as online, other regions should be OK. (ネットが繋がっていればその他の地域も可能)

Place: Eveywhere (Online) 

• Oggy Facebook Page
• And/or other media

Oggy has been performing music at online live show since I need to refrain from physical show due to the emergency declaration in Japan.
Actually I have been doing the online live everyday since April 4th, so I just would like to officially? announce about it here.
Please join at your convenience. Guest performance is always welcomed! A few people kindly joined already.
I may show up some media besides Facebook, too, which I will announce too.

This web site is currently cooled down. Will be warmed up again some time later!

oggy

As a deep music-lover, I spent my time rebuilding my computer environment for music today.

• Purchased “Cliffs of Dover”, a guitar instrumental tune by Eric Johnson, at iTunes for $0.99. This is probably a long-tail kind of song picked up by not so many people, but it is a great one.
• Played Miles Davis at an online radio station I ‘created’ at Pandora.com. This is what I couldn’t try in Japan because of the area restriction for the sake of content copyrights.
• Visited and played with Dotomi.com. This is a cool music recognition technology.
• Renewed my account at Playlog.jp (an online music society in Japan), and installed its  iTunes plug-in, which keeps track of song list I play on PC and shares the list in the community.
• Created song list (i.e., a playlist) of jazz guitar tunes to share at the community of Mixi.jp, the largest SNS in Japan. Installed “Mixistation” software, which, again, keeps track of songs I play on the PC.
• Played with Last.fm, a large online music society that also distributes its own music player software.
• Installed two applications (Pandora and iLike) on Facebook. It seems that iLike is more broadly used than Pandora in the Facebook community.
• Backed up my 25,000 iPod-songs onto the PC. The PC hard drive that contained the songs had been dead. So I ran CopyTrans (a shareware) to restore all the songs in my old iPod back to my PC, after trying three other freewares, all of which failed. I found CopyTrans a easy-to-use and reliable s/w! (e.g. The other freewares collapsed the Japanese song names imported from the iPod.)

I have been familiar with most of these online music services or software for long time, but recently I could not allocate my time to enjoy music deeply and to catch up the latest tech scene of what is going on in this area. So it has been a good chance for me to revive my hands-on spirit and refresh my mind in this kind. All of these services are very cool and most of the functions are much more easy to use and reliable than before. At the same time, using these is still somewhat time-consuming and inanimate to me though.

In particular, this April I had a chance to join the speaker event of the founder of Pandora, Tim Westergren, the event hosted by the Entrepreneurship Club at Kellogg. He said Pandora is (and will be) focusing on the internet radio and its competitor is Clear Channel, the largest radio network in the US. (I will talk about the club some time later.)

So, it’s summer… I can spend some of my energies to try things that I wanted to but couldn’t when I was busy. I also have time to write things here in more detail than I used to. Well, all I wanted to do today is to use social bookmark…(The Internet-savvy people, that’s right. I’m way behind!) I am not interested in sharing bookmarks with others but I want to share my own bookmark between my own (or maybe public) PC and cell phone. Unfortunately, none of the following sites has worked as I desired.

• del.icio.us: It cannot correctly display Japanese text in bookmarks imported from IE.
• Hatena (Social Bookmark service well-known in Japan): It does not even have import functionality! This is amazing to me since I thought this kind of function is supposed to be developed in the very first stage.
• Yahoo.com: Same problem with del.icio.us. It also produces a simple error message like: “There is a problem processing your bookmark. Please try again later.”…

Probably there is something wrong with the character encoding in the bookmark file I am trying to import to the services. The encoding system which is used in the export file does not match the one used in the services. The bookmark file, exported from my Internet Explorer, contains lots of Japanese characters. I am using standard Japanese input/output methods built in Windows XP system of my laptop.

Guys, please fix the problem if you are involved in any of these sites! This is something you can do quickly to differentiate your service. 🙂