There are of course other radio people looking for free and open audio and doing programs with it, such as tHe SiJis SHow (thanks, Benoit!) on Resonance fm, London.
On their website, you can download the archived programs and also find links to the sites where the individual tracks are available.
I did a first 30minutes-mix of tracks under creative commons, here is the playlist. Maybe will make it available through constantvzw one of these days. In the meanwhile, all those tracks are freely downloadable.
Paranerd : extract from Little Shames (one.dot9.ca) //
Yosuke Hayashi : BrunovsMasaki (opsound) //
Lullatone : Resound (observatory) //
Symphonic Stereo : I hope (camomille) //
Vim : Thin strips of you (monotonik through archive.org) //
Text Adventure : If it could talk it wouldn’t say anything (observatory) //
Catalpa catalpa : Putty in your paws (opsound) //
Binärpilot : Tjaere igjen (microhertz through archive.org) //
Alosyus : Play more with claymore (alosyus on electrobel)
/// all tracks licensed under creative commons, some rights reserved,
If you like folky guitars drowning in lo-fi bleepy sounds, with some fragile voice in the mix, Text Adventure is for you. Particularly suitable for sad indie shoegazers, but also really enjoyable for the rest of the world. Released under creative commons by observatory, one of the numerous netlabels you can find on archive.org.
Download ogg files here (mp3’s available also).
Or where I start searching the Internet for good free music : things that are copyleft, or public domain, or creative commons, or watherver.
Why would I do that? I work for a radio station called campus and for a project called radioswap. The first is a non-commercial, independent radio station (you should listen to it, it’s rather good ^_-), the second is an exchange platform for, again, non-commercial radio stations.
Some months ago, I was at a meeting organised by the crid (centre de recherche informatique et droit). Around the table, lawyers, university people, radio people and people from the music industry : two from a society collecting royalties for authors and composers, one from a society representing the record producers (major companies as well as a good deal of the independents). And these were very fast to say that it was absolutely impossible to make radio without using their “catalogue” or “repertoire” (as they see it, it is clear they represent the owners of at least 90% of what’s broadcast on any radio, and it would be impossible for things to be different).
Around the same time, the amount of money the radio stations have to pay for copyright went through the roof, for various belgian reasons (won’t go into details here).
And so, here I am, trying to see if it would be possible, or even interesting, to make radio with only content that is free to use with a non-commercial purpose.
The answer seems to be yes. I started looking yesterday, already found loads of stuff. I will post on a regular basis about the results.
Part of constant is in Mallorca, at Sa Taronja, to take part in the Ping festival. Here are some photographs, more will follow.
lemons
the floor of Laurent Thurin’s exhibition
and his desk
walkie talkie, later used during opening performance
wendy and contact mike
unfortunately empty
Very interesting (french) article about the region locking of game consoles, and the artificial confusion between different things : unlocking the machines to play games from other regions and/or to play pirate copies, and some worrying trends in the Australian and German courts under Sony (and other’s) pressure.
Went there :
“misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It’s a celebration of women’s contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women’s contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the computing field.”
full of good stuff.
clicking and clicking, i got there. Selected this :
“I don’t play as much as I used to; these days I’m more likely to demand that moriarty6 buy a title and play it for me than hit the keyboard myself. I prefer to spectate while sitting in bed with a glass of wine and some popcorn. I love it. I’d rather watch him play Silent Hill 3 again than go to the movies. At a theater, if you scream, “DON’T GO IN THERE!” you get pelted in the back of the head with chocolate-covered peanuts. Also, you get ignored by the people in the story, who will merrily go about making the sorts of suicidal decisions that make me want to pistol-whip the writers. But if I’m sitting at home, with all the lights out, and waves of mystical shit are driving that video card into a frenzy … should I call out, “DON’T GO IN THERE!” Jym says, “Hmmm, maybe you’re right. Let’s try another approach, or at least arm-up and check our health levels before we open that door.” But I say all that to say this: how am I not a target market? How come it is, that when people talk about games for women, they are inevitably talking about the Sims? Or Everquest? While I realize that many women (it would seem) really enjoy the community aspects of MMORPG, there are plenty of us out here who scan the racks at EB looking for good single-player action and/or survival horror. ”
It’s part of a reaction to this, which is a rather fun report from a “Women in Games” panel with only men talking.
Not so long ago, Bruce Sterling gave a lecture at Microsoft (gosh, how completely shocking ;-). If you wonder what it was about there is a complete transcript
there.
