Another weekend is here and the weather is really good here in Jakarta. Right now it is 32 degrees with a high of 34 degrees. 
I normally listen to the streaming service in the morning while I am working. This permits me to hear all of our series programs such as Artist of the Week. This week, we have Canary Burton as our artist and her music is really great. Contemporary music is not atonal anymore but really quite easy to listen to.
Each week, we received between 1 and 3 new CDs as well as compositions being transferred via the Internet.
Radio Arts Indonesia is one person operation taking about three hours a day. In order to exist in Indonesia, I had to move to computer programming as being a Personnel Manager was closed to expats. When we got involved in Radio Kasik in 1995, I decided that we would use the computer to do the programming. Back then we were using CDs on the air as well as DAT tapes. The announcing was live and we had to generate scripts for the announcers. So I developed a program to generated the music as well as the scripts. 
In 2005, we started to do classical music programming from Radio CNJ (Classical,News and Jazz). By that time, we had moved our music to the computer, So the computer came to my aid as it prepared the music and the scripts. In order to let our audience know what we were programming, Brian Everett and I started www.artsindonesia.com  and so we started publishing a weekly newsletter of the music played. The website also supported the Arts Activities in Jakarta and Indonesia. Our objective was to let people to know what was going on ahead of time and not afterwards as the local newspapers were doing.
Then with Tinette Soekardjo pushing, we started Radio Arts Indonesia. the computer returned again to make my life easier. Everything is done by the computer. It automatically selects the first 13 compositions for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th programming. After that I select the music for the rest of the time. However this is all done with the computer and it will not let me program a piece of music that has been played in the last 27 days in the same time period.. The programme listings that we email each week are all generated by the computer as well as the instructions for what compositions to play in the London computer. So computer has made my life much easier and very enjoyable.
Well one other item, I received the following from Betty Beath
I'm giving you a link to a new posting we have made to Youtube. It is just two little pieces under the title, Night Songs for Solo Alto and Solo Bass Recorder. David's illustrations accompany the six minute performance by Sabine Ambos, a German girl and accomplished, professional recorder player. I haven't met her but she was recently in touch requesting a copy of the score and then, to my surprise...within a week or so, she sent me this recording of her performance of Night Songs. I wrote the piece many years ago and I was interested, as well as surprised, to hear the pieces again. If you have six minutes to spare here is the link:
Night Songs 1 & 2 for solo alto and solo bass recorders

http://youtu.be/FzdaLMBCKM4

Please give a listen and have a good weekend

Chuck