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The Social Politics of MP3 Blogs, in Real Time: Extended comments section to a blog post, in which sound artist Hans Peter Kuhn has it out with a blogger who had posted MP3s of his recordings: 433rpm.blogspot.com (via twitter.com/robinrimbaud). Here’s a very brief condensation: Kuhn: “I am one of the two copyright owner I know [...]
There must be a third round coming. These things come in threes, don’t they, like celebrity deaths and blockbuster movie franchises? The “thing” in this case is the mass popularity of — the sudden mass consciousness of — what, generally speaking, is a matter of sonic composition relegated deep in left field, in the outer [...]
Ever since ASCAP, the performing-rights organization, sent out a fundraising letter to its members in which it singled out Creative Commons as a underminer of copyright, the subject of the business of the creative process has sparked yet another round of online discourse. I was invited by the websbite weallmakemusic.com to summarize the arguments in [...]
Sampling puts an interesting spin on the old axiom about how if you’re going to steal, then steal from the best. As Mystified shows with his Adventures of Plunderman album, available for free download at mystified.bandcamp.com, much can be made with goofy retro pop. He describes the five-track collection as “a plunderphonic wonder uniting samples [...]
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere: Just a reminder that this coming Sunday, July 18, will be World Listening Day: worldlisteningproject.org. The date was selected because it is the birthday of composer and sound ecologist R. Murray Schafer. … Peter Kirn at createdigitalmusic.com looks into whether, and if so to what extent, Apple’s iOS [...]
The Internet allows for varieties of atemporality, some of them semi-intended consequences (such as the manner in which Jorge Luis Borges’ Infinite Library seems within reach thanks to vast databases of culture), many of them unintended (for example how glitchy technology can summon of items from the past with no clear curatorial intention). Speaking of [...]
If “vuvuzela” isn’t the Word of the Year, expect to hear a lot of Bronx cheers. Past winners, which are determined by the American Dialect Society, have included “tweet” (2009), “subprime” (2007), and “y2k” (1999). It’s certainly difficult to recall a single sound as widely discussed as the “vuvuzela.” The word refers to the long, [...]