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the travelers' guide to unusual musics: about

Purpose

The idea for the Travelers' Guide to Unusual Musics came from occasional posts on the oddmusic mailing list, in which traveling musical enthusiasts would inquire about interesting places and activities in various destinations, exotic or otherwise. The remarkable wealth of material published in the Experimental Instrument Journal over the years made it clear that there were many such places to visit, but a search for resources on the World Wide Web turned up very little outside of lists of relatively large museum collections. This Guide is intended to address this lack by offering a wide range of sites, and by allowing visitors to enter new sites and comments.

Technology

The Travelers' Guide to Unusual Musics is developed and operated entirely with freely available open source software, with one exception noted below.

The web application is written in the Perl programming language. It consists of a cgi script and associated set of class modules. The data is currently stored in DBM files, using David Winter's Persistent package -- I plan to migrate to a MySQL database once the project gets going. The primary development environment is the Emacs editor from the GNU project.

The site runs on the Apache web server under the Linux operating system.

What little artwork there is was developed using Adobe Photoshop.