The Art of Noises
by Luigi Russolo
What's GNUsic.net? The objective of GNUsic.net project is to open the process of making music by being able to use/modify/redistribute its material freely. Until now, many creative musicians have made interesting music/sounds collaboratively using the Internet. However, it is almost impossible for us to obtain their evolutional prototypes and reuse them for our own productions. This is because the musical material and prototypes are not free and copylefted.
If this is not your ideal vision of the World Wide Web of the future, you can help by participating in the struggle against the ever growing copyright hysteria that exists on today's Web. Only with education and understanding can we keep the web and prevent the dull gray you see when you stare into a broken computer monitor from becoming a long lasting harsh reality!
This has become a pressing problem for creativity now because the creative technique of appropriation has jumped from the mediums in which it first appeared (principally in the visual fine arts of painting, printmaking, and sculpture) to popular, electronic mass distributed mediums such as photography, recorded music, and multimedia. The appearance of appropriation techniques in these more recent mass mediums have occasioned a huge increase in owner litigations of such appropriation based works because the commercial entrepenours who now own and operate mass culture are apparently intent on oblitering all distinctions between the needs of art and the needs of commerce. These owners of mass produced cultural material claim that similarly mass produced works of appropriation are a new and devastating threat to their total control over the exclusive profits which their properties might produce in the same mass marketplace. They claim that, art or not, an unauthorized appropriation of any kind can not be allowed to directly compete in the appropriated material's avenue of commerce, as if they were equal in content, and equal in intent. The degree to which the unique nature and needs of art practice do not play any part in this thinking is more than slightly insane.
http://www.negativland.com/changing_copyright.htmlhttp://www.negativland.com/riaa/tenets.html
http://www.negativland.com/fairuse.html
Visit the MP3 lab
We will set up a sound lab where you can fish for
interesting sounds to add to your compositions. Take part in the definitive
funeral march for copyrights. You can drop sounds for others to download, pick
up the droppings of others.
shoot, ride, talk later!
anti-copyright
anti-industry
anti-commercial
mpeg3 initiatives for the
unconventional and creative
What is the Free Music Philosophy (FMP)?
It is an anarchistic grass-roots,
but high-tech, system of spreading music: the idea that creating, copying, and
distributing music must be as unrestricted as breathing air, plucking a blade of
grass, or basking in the rays of the sun.
Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?
How Rating and Blocking
Proposals May Torch Free Speech on the Internet
"No genius has any right to lock up in one difficult and costly-accessible corner of the world, a work of supreme art, even his own. Great Art is universal. It should not be made the monopoly of a few." -Kaikhosru Sorabji, letter to Philip Heseltine, 1913.
The Tape-beatles
What's it all about? Coming approximately once each 3
years, the combined recorded and performed works of The Tape-beatles and Public
Works follow consistent conceptual threads. Among these are an interest in
making music without the use of conventional musical instruments; using
recording technology itself as a creative, expressive medium with unique
capabilities; Plagiarism¨, or the notion that recontextualization of previously
'finished' works can be done ethically and can in itself constitute authorship;
and making use of contemporary media to critique culture and social milieux.
MACOS is a non-profit organization constructing an international network of musicians whose opinions of sampling and the use of sampling technology oppose the copyrighting of samples. Allowing the general public to sample from MACOS material freely, without incurring any legal ramifications. By including the MACOS logo on your product, you demonstrates your commitment towards sampling, authorizing that your product can be used as a sampling source. Sampling is the 21st century.
In short, patent and copyright laws are very good for the owners, and very bad for everyone else. These laws turn ideas into just another product to be bought and sold on the market, whether it is a work of art or science, which doesn't benefit the innovator, but instead further fills the pockets of the owner. The very things that have made civilization great are viewed as commodities with a market value. Like everything associated with the market, it cheapens and destroys what it touches by putting a price tag on creation and innovation.
http://members.aol.com/Renoitseuq/private/essays/patent.html
Looking for the WTO site? Visit http://www.gatt.org/. If that doesn't work,
click here: http://www.rtmark.com/wto
¨TMark supports the informative alteration of corporate products, from dolls
and children's learning tools to electronic action games, by channelling funds
from investors to workers. On our site you can find current ¨TMark projects, as
well as a few past successes. For those interested in investing in ¨TMark
itself, materials for publication and broadcast are available as well.
Our lawyers have gone over this show with a fine tooth comb. That's because we're going to use fragments of contested music and other sounds. Copyright in the digital age. I'm Jude Thilman and this is "The Communications Revolution."