RASO or *osar are projects completed in 1999 and 2000 before I swore off
ever again using non-Free software to play with sounds. The tools used 
were my PowerMac 7500 (upgraded to G3 300MHz w/96M RAM) running MacOS 8
and a paid-for and registered copy of a shareware 8 track audio editor 
and mixer app called soundsculptorII. 

The source material came from 4 cassette tapes recorded from the mac's
audio outputs into the aux ins of my wife's (then fiancee's) bookshelf 
stereo system. The tapes were then recorded back into the mac from the
stereo's headphone out. Tape one includes recordings of the first 10 or
so megim pieces and the audio presented here as iosar.mp3. 

iosar and tapes two through four (presented here as 
t[2-3](a|b)[1-4].mp3) are recordings of me playing (via qwerty and 
mouse) a record-disabled demo version of an analogue modeling soft 
synth. The mixosars and scraposars were created and mixed down to stereo
aiff in soundsculptorII and encoded to mp3 with a paid-for and 
registered copy of an encoder (whose name escapes me) put out by Casady
and Greene. I believe it used the evil codec. 

I only had 2G of disk space at the time and I was publishing on iuma
and mp3.com, both of which only accepted mp3s. I didn't yet know about
ogg vorbis. Neither did I know anything about the patent issue with 
the mp3 format that is one of the main reasons for vorbis' existence.
While I still have the original cassettes, the mixosar and scraposar mp3s
are all I had space for at the time so they are the only versions there 
will ever be. Transcoding would be interesting, but probably not for 
more than a few listens.

-Eric Dantan Rzewnicki