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Remix Fight
Remix Fight: download cool remixes and read about ’em too. Thanks Jonathan.
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Online tools for vernacular creativity
DFILM is a software tool that enables you to create short animated films online…including writing your own dialogue, within four set narrative structures. Also, go play at NOISE_UP_THE_SUBURBS – thanks to cnwb, who has more thoughts on post-dance bedroom musicians at his blog.
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Art of the Mix
The Art of the Mix is a website dedicated to mix tapes, mixed cds and mp3 playlists. Am loving the titles, cover art (some NSFW), and taxonomy of the mixed tape.
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Full Steam Ahead for the Music Commons
New on the Opsound site: open source audio, i.e. many Opsound artists have offered to provide uncompressed source material for remixing. And Creative Commons has released their new Music Sharing License and the Get Content search engine, which allows you to search for remix-ready, sharable, or downloadable music.
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Magnatune blog and Creative Commons comp
John Buckman, who runs Creative Commons’ favourite “online music label” magnatune, now has a blog. I liked the transcription of a cute exchange between Buckman and a major label exec, who apparently doesn’t like being called evil. Speaking of CC, Seb’s Open Research points us to the winning video in the Creative Commons Moving Image…
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New on The Wire Website
The Wire’s shows on Resonance FM are now archived for approximately one month on The Wire website. Plus: New additions to the MP3 gallery plus new articles from the Wire vault in the Archive Section: BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Mark Sinker (from issue 150, February 92) Exotic Audio Research by Rob Young (from issue 139,…
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First Monday: Filesharing and Subculture
At First Monday: Digital music and subculture: Sharing files, sharing styles by Sean Ebare. Via hypergene mediablog.
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The GarageBand Controversy
I am just about ready to move on from the GarageBand thing – it will be one of my case studies, but any more consecutive posts on the topic and this will turn into some sort of Apple fansite. And I don’t even have a Mac. However… It seems quite a lot of people didn’t…
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GarageBand: Usability vs. Hackability
I don’t have a Mac, so I haven’t used GarageBand yet, but I’ve been following its release and its take-up by users very closely. To hear the fruits of this explosion of creativity, visit one of the many online distribution channels for GarageBand recordings that have already begun to appear: MacJukebox, iCompositions, or MacJams. As…
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Musical Amateurism and Technological Change
Two articles that problematize the cultural values attached to the modernist producer/consumer dichotomy, especially with regard to musical amateurism. From Antoine Hennion (whose work is all too rarely available in English), Music industry and music lovers, beyond Benjamin: The return of the amateur: […] the amateur could easily be reinstated at the centre of the…