New Periodicals

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This semiannual column selectively lists newly issued periodicals; describes their objectives, formats, and contents; and provides information about special issues, title and format changes, mergers, and cessations. The following resources were frequently consulted when assembling this column: International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP; http://music.chadwyck.com/), Music Index (MI; http://www.hppmusicindex.com/), RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM; http://www.RILM.org/), OCLC WorldCat and Ulrich's Periodical Directory (http://www.ulrichsweb.com/ulrichsweb/). All Web sites were accessed on 23 November 2005 unless otherwise specified. New Titles Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO). Edited by D. Keith Wilson, US Army Cold Regions Research Laboratory. Acoustical Society of America. Quarterly. Vol. 1, no. 1 ( July 2000). Online format (PDF and PostScript). ISSN 1529-7853. Access: http://scitation.aip.org/ARLO/top.jsp. Subscription: Acoustical Society of America, Suite 1NO1, 2 Huntington Quadrangle, Melville, NY 11747-4502. E-mail: asa@aip.org. $150 institutions, free individuals. ARLO is the electronic journal of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), a society devoted to all aspects of acoustics. A rapid publication journal posting articles as they become available, ARLO articles are processed on "PeerXpress—a web-based manuscript management system, which includes peer review using many associate editors and reviewers of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ( JASA). ARLO articles are searchable and linkable through the Scitation platform of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), which publishes and archives articles for ASA" (http://scitation.aip.org/ARLO/). Multimedia content is accepted. A bimonthly CD-ROM, currently only available to subscribers of JASA includes recently published ARLO articles along with the current issue of JASA. From March 1999 to September 2000 ARLO was published as a section of JASA. Articles published during this period are also available online at http://scitation.aip.org/arlo/archives/articles.jsp (PDF). All issues are browsable and keyword searchable. The subject coverage of ARLO includes speech, music and noise. In addition, ASA has a Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics, which is particularly interested in the "physics of musical sound production, psychoacoustics of musical perception, music cognition, and analysis and synthesis of musical sounds and composition." For more information on the Acoustical Society of America's Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics see: http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/tcmu/. Chaise Magazine. Coedited by Bennett Barbakow, Michelle Higa, Noah Norman, and Chris Smith. Creative Arts Council, Brown University. Semiannual. Issue 1 (2004). DVD-ROM format. Subscription or inquires: Chaise Magazine, 97 N. 3rd St., No. 1F, Brooklyn, NY 11211. E-mail: info@chaisemagazine.org. Free (postage is required). For more information and specific postage amounts see the Chaise [End Page 769] Magazine Web site at: http://www.chaisemagazine.org/. Distributed free on DVD, Chaise Magazine is a collection of art and music featuring the work of artists, animators, filmmakers, computer programmers, and composers, particularly emerging artists. An interesting collaboration between art and technology, Chaise allows for the display of art and music without the traditional mediums of gallery spaces, concert halls and record stores. The companion Web site, http://www.chaisemagazine.org/, posts exhibitions, calls for artwork, tutorials and links to other art resources, and showcases artists from the magazine. The "patented CHAISE technology can support videos, films, music, radio plays, sound experiments, photography, digital stills, interactive text, paintings, performance/installation/sculpture documentation, 2D/3D animations, MAX/MSP/Jitter applications, Director/ Flash animations, Java applets and anything else that fits on a DVD/DVD-ROM." (http://www.chaisemagazine.org/about/). DOWN Magazine: Dedicated to Southern Hip-Hop Music and Culture. Down Enterprises. Bimonthly. No. 1 ( July 2005). ISSN 1554-8945. Print format; includes a compact disc. Subscription: Down, 124 Durham Ave., Metuchen NJ, 08840. $20. For more information see the magazine's Web site: http://www.downmagazine.com/. Jeremy Miller, a former Source: The Magazine of Hip-Hop Music, Culture & Politics executive, launched DOWN Magazine because "Southern artists are dominating the charts but are underrepresented on the newsstands." DOWN attempts to provide an alternative to what Miller calls an "East Coast" perspective in mainstream coverage of...