Fascinating mix of images : this is an archive of photographs coming from various p2p networks. Was the sharing of those intentional or not? One can meditate about it while looking at this enormous random selection.
Here is one to give you an idea.
(nice band-aid even if not sticky enough)
Just finished a second mix made only of creative commons tracks (and uploaded it for the radioswap stations, contact them if you’re a radio and you want to join 😉
What is in the playlist. Again Catalpa catalpa and Binärpilot (i’m very fond of those). Normal Music sounds a bit like unclean minimal techno, kind of pan-sonic under a cracking layer of dust, and is released on Autoplate. Autoplate is the sister label of Thinner, who released the elegant synth-dripping techno of Theodor Zox.
My favourite in this batch is Tree Wave. Here is an extract from the prop-text : “Instruments include an Atari 2600, a Commodore 64, a 286 luggable PC, and an Epson dot matrix printer, all reprogrammed as sound generators. In live shows, the Atari 2600 works double-duty as an hypnotic image projector.”
We also have here two tracks we could maybe describe as “amateur electropop”, very charming and effective, one from Brussels, Churchill, and the other from Vienna, Heirstyle.
Ilkae : Tin crow (Monotonik through archive.org) //
Tree wave : May banners (Observatory) //
Churchill : Target (electrobel) //
Binärpilot : Otosclerosis (microhertz through archive.org) //
Catalpa Catalpa : Mummy (opsound) //
Normal music : Migratory patterns of youth (Autoplate) //
Theodor Zox : Oker motion (download from Thinner) //
Heirstyle : Meisterwerk (Comfort Stand release page) //
/// all tracks licensed under creative commons, some rights reserved.
More coming soon.
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
if you happen to be in the neighbourhood, spend some time in the HOTEL…
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.
