Special Announcement - Student Call-In Line — (949) 273-0923

Attention all Acappella University students and faculty members — our new internet voicemail box is armed and fully op-a-ra-tion-al, so call at will!

Give us a ring at 949-273-0923 and make a song request, leave a comment, hum a few bars, whatever. We’ll play some of what you tell us on Ep. 17. This is a VOICEMAIL ONLY line, so don’t be insulted when no one answers! We set this up through Skype, so if you’d like to look us up on there the user id is acappellau (duh). If you have no idea what Skype is, forget you read the last sentance. And this one too. I mean, the one before this one; well, you know what I mean.

Episode 15 - Our first videocast, live from NYC!

We said we’d do it all the way back in episode one, and we HAVE delivered. Please email me, acappellau@mac.com, or better yet, post in the forums on our website www.acappellau.com, and tell me what you think!!

Although we weren’t able to record the actual competition as I had hoped, I think everyone will enjoy the show we put together. Thanks again to Paul Huffman and Cheryl Chiou for all the help (more on you two next episode), and to all the goups who came on the show as well as the entire team from Varsity Vocals.

The show is not going to become a videocast only, this is just a special occasion because of the ICCAs. We will, however, have much more video in the future - I’m thinking of calling it the Acappella U Video Minute . . . . but more on that later. I will post an mp3 version of the show like I always do, but to answer this question before it even gets asked, the answer is no, I will not post the show in another video format, it’s mpeg 4 or bust.

Actually, we will have another video installment soon - there’s a new romantic comedy making the festival rounds right now called Shut Up and Sing which is about a collegiate a cappella group’s ‘reunion’ of sorts at a friend’s wedding. We’re going to have Bruce Leddy, the film’s writer/director, come on the show ,talk about the movie and show us some clips, so be on the lookout for that in the coming weeks.

A couple of technical notes: before starting, I would reccomend going in to your iTunes preferances and, under ‘Playback’, select play videos in a separate window. Usually I can just click on the little album art window to make that happen, but for some reason I couln’t with this video. If you’re simply using quicktime, then it doesn’t matter.

Also, there are chapter markers in this episode, but they’re only visible when you view the show in an expanded window as described above, or in Quicktime. If you’re having technical issues, please just start a thread in the forums so others can see your issue and the resolution.

Enjoy the show!!

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Episode 15 Teaser

Just a taste of the video goodness we got in NYC at the ICCA finals. Check out USC Reverse Osmosis with FOB’s Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down. Oh, and don’t mind those chimes in the background. They’re for. . . . effect. Uh, yeah.

USC Reverse Osmosis Clip