“Netaudio” (Used 13 times)

BlocSonic is a gateway to some of the world's best free and legal music.

Alongside original releases and digital "maxi-singles", the netBloc series culls Creative Commons music from throughout the netaudio universe. 

The latest, netBloc Vol. 37, is entitled FIVE because BlocSonic's been at it for five years running!

Maybe you've heard about this crazy photo mikroblogging tool called Instagr.am. A few days ago, a group of artists started a project called "Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards". First they shot photos with an ambient background and shared them via Instagr.am. Then they composed a piece of ambient music inspired by a different artist's instagr.am photo. The project was organized by Marc Weidenbaum, who has run the ambient/electronic music website Disquiet.com since 1996. Here's a quote from the original post on disquiet:

"The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians? In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.”

All of the tracks were originally posted under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to the Internet Archive. There, you can also find a 58-page PDF with full-page reproductions of the images and additional information on all the participating musicians.  You can also find the whole album uploaded to the Free Music Archive, and check the german posting on  my german blog Progolog.de.

Hey sharks out there. Me and my team are releasing the first full lenght album of ZOE.LEELA.This nice n smooth piece of music will be marketed by MOTOR and find it´s ways to the market by ROUGH TRADE. Iam very excited how this joint will be burning. Keep it cool and stay informed. You never know:) Smile and hugs to my CC thugs. Yours truly ZOE.LEELA

Uh almost forgot. I will play and destroy at the ANTJE OKSELUND in Berlin Frierdichshain to warm a bit. September  the 23rd at Rigaer Strasse71 in 10247 BERLiN BÄNG BÄNG.

"Best of Breitband" is a monthly netaudio mix from Breitband's Netzmusik editors. The music has also been featured on the radio program Breitband ("Broadband") from Deutschlandradio Kultur, which adopts a "web-first" strategy powered by Creative Commons-licensed music.

Previous Best of Breitband mixes here and here // http://breitband.dradio.de

Please welcome Breitband, a weekly radio show about media and digital culture from German public broadcaster Deutschlandradio Kultur, to the Free Music Archive!

Kicking off what will become a monthly series, Best of Breitband Vol. 1 presents twelve tracks of Creative Commons (and some Public Domain) music that have all been featured on the Breitband radio program, which airs every Saturday from 2pm-3pm.

Breitband (engl Broadband) launched in October 2007 with a "web first strategy," meaning all content is published online before it airs over the radio. Breitband's forward-thinking approach to broadcast is more than just made possible by podsafe audio; Creative Commons music and netaudio (or netzmusik) are part of the focus, along with interviews and "behind the scenes" features on net music and web culture in general. "Breitband covers everything that is part of the digital culture and it's cultural environment," says team-member Christian Grasse.

This Saturday's Breitband program included a feature on the Free Music Archive, with FMA selections by The Jay Vons, Damscray, Spinnaface, The Rope River Blues Band, Sharitah Manush, AMANDA, Muhal Richard Abrams and Rat City Brass. There's also an interview with me, translated into German, stream it below and here's a link.

Best of Breitband Vol. 1 is a fantastic introductory mix that really reflects the bredth of the FMA library, ranging from Catalunyan space-hop by DjCode (aka Bitcode), to public domain classical recordings by the US Air Force Band and Felipe Sarro (already an FMA favorite). Quint Baker really bent my ear with what sounds like a lofi acoustic New Zealand version of Broadcast.

This mix was curated by Breitband host Martin Risel,   Vivian Perkovic, Christine Watty, and Christian Grasse. These four are at the heart of an incredibly vibrant German netaudio community. For example, Christian Grasse also does the FreeQuency podcast on ByteFM, and founded the netlabel Aaahh Records. Selections from Aaahh's catalog of "free and charming music" were recently featured on all2gethernow's 2010 Berlin Music Week compilation and we hope to hear more in the near future. In the meantime, enjoy this mix -- the first of a monthly Best of Breitband series: