“Radio” (Used 16 times)

Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) has a new article in the fantastic Wire Magazine series Collateral Damage, in which artists respond to the effects of the internet.

"In the early 2000s, increased bandwidth allowed recombinant artists to enter the gift economy. It’s a freedom we should defend at all costs, argues Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us" [Read the full article at The Wire Magazine]

In the article, Vicki observes that the abundance of music at our fingertips "shifts the way one listens, as the process becomes more like a ‘one-off’ experience of something that is ‘live’ or ‘unrepeatable’, almost like it was before the age of recording." But we should be wary of putting our faith in the cloud; "My main concern over the cloud is that this ‘automatic and effortless’ experience of access may be improved upon by eventually narrowing down results to only mainstream or sponsored content."

Vicki Bennett's 744-hour-long Radio Boredcast airs this month as part of AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible. Among the 100 slow music contributors are Mark Gergis (Porest/Sublime Frequencies), Radio Web MACBA, Jason Willett, Zach Layton (Issue Project Room), Andy Bayo (waxy.org), Chris & Cozey, Matmos, Ergo Phizmiz, Dylan Nyoukis, Jared Blum, Felix Kubin, Gudrun Gut, Irene Moon, DJ/rupture and a bunch of other WFMU DJs.

We are proud to host a collection of People Like Us recordings here on the Free Music Archive. A few selections are below, including "DO or DIY" from her 2003 John Peel session, "I'm Backwards" from Christian Marclay's Sounds of Christmas at Tate Modern, a re-working of Daphne Oram commissioned by the UK's Sonic Arts Network (now known as Sound And Music), and "Happy" from last year's This Is Light Music.

Previously:
>> Bob Ostertag in The Wire: "The Web Changes Our Understanding of Music" 
>> Liz B on People Like Us Reworks Daphne Oram: "Queens of Avant Garde Pop"

One of the 50+ projects to spring from this weekend's Music Hack Day, Free Music Archive Radio is essentially the template for a Creative Commons Pandora. Enter the name of any artist, and FMA Radio taps into the Echo Nest's musical brain to generate a similar playlist from the FMA's curated library of 40,000+ legal mp3s. Tweak your station further with Mood and Style parameters, and/or Creative Commons license filters.

Despite the fact that it's just a demo (works best on Chrome, not so well on Firefox) FMA Radio has already been written up in evolver.fm, the Dutch blog Muziek & de bibliotheek, and Germany's Progolog. Its awesomeness is enhanced by the fact that it's html5 (plays nice with iPhone/iPad), it's open source, and it was built over the course of 24-hours (whoa!). I spent much of the weekend hanging out with FMA Radio's creators Jeremy Sawruk, Robby Grodin (ConductiveIO) and Julie Vera, the Music Hack Day veterans whose previous projects include Sawruk's Feedtunes (turns Twitter trends into playlists based on song lyrics) and Grodin's Toscanini gestural interface. In addition to releasing open source code, Sawruk and Grodin are Creative Commons musicians, and they've really done an incredible service to the community via FMA Radio.

Music Hack Day is a series of music/tech gatherings fueled in large part by APIs. After the big news last month that FMA's API had been revamped and mapped to the Echo Nest's Rosetta Stone leading up to WFMU's Radiovision Festival, this weekend introduced the FMA to the mother of all music hacking events. It was fantastic to take part -- some highlights after the jump:

Radio Colorado College (KRCC / KCCS / KECC), the NPR member station for Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, has been doing a Song of the Day series since Sept 2010, entirely sourced from the Free Music Archive!

The series was founded by Noel Black, and Craig Richardson's been chipping in as well, they've both got great taste so I thought it would be cool to put a few of their picks into a mix. If you like these selections as much as I do, you can browse more KRCC Free Songs of the Days at http://radiocoloradocollege.org/category/free-song-of-the-day/

KRCC's isn't the only Song of the Day feature drawing on the FMA's pooled library. One that comes to mind is Belgrade's DJ Zoltán (aka Procedura) from Radio Net1zen, whose Neon Sun Mix (below) is featured on the FMA home page right now. Zoltán DJs this amazing Song of the Day-style tumblr since August 2010: http://zoltan.net1zen.com/. If you know of similar sites that we should check out, post a link in the comments!

Netaudio hero Lee Rosevere debuted his newest EP exclusively on the FMA, but it sure won't stay put here for long! These instrumental jams are too good not to share, and you are encouraged to do so -- you can even use them in your own work as long as you follow the terms of the EP's Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It's no wonder Lee's song "Do What You Can" has risen to the top of the FMA charts ever since it was first featured by Dan Misener of CBC Radio's tech/culture program Spark.

The new EP, Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, offers six more radio-friendly instrumentals (Lee works in radio during the day!) with a knack for funky-drumming and abstract-lounge/exotica.

Lee's been been making music since 1985, but only his post-1990 recordings survive. He started archiving his creative output online as soon as this became feasible, and he's produced quite a body of work. The FMA proudly hosts a baker's dozen albums feat Mr Rosevere, curated by the likes of WM_Recordings, Comfort Stand, Creative Commons, Oddio Overplay, and Lee's own netlabel; Happy Puppy Records. Remember the Music for Vampires compilation Oddio Overplay introduced us to back in November? Yeah, that's on Happy Puppy!

Radio Prisma e' il mio programma su Radio Pazza, la web radio no cost creata da Dj Bak e Dj Grex. Puoi ascoltare Radio Pazza su http://radiopazza.blogspot.com oppure su Myspace.Puoi scaricare ed ascoltare il file in formato mp3. Oppure clicca qui per ascoltarci col tuo player preferito.

Music(e)Scapes e' il mio nuovo programma, dedicato alla musica Creative Commons da tutto il mondo. Il primo episodio è ascoltabile qui: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioPazza/~3/kfrRIg2qibw/radio-prisma-musicescapes-1.html

Perche' Music(e)Scapes? Perche' per Sopra(v)Vivere in questo quotidiano bailamme che chiamiamo Vita si ha a volte bisogno di paesaggi musicali, fughe in avanti e Musica che scappa dagli hard disk e invade le nostre orecchie e la citta'.

Buon ascolto! Yuki AKA Dj Prisma TBFKA Museum

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MUSIC(e)SCAPES #1 - PLAYLIST:

CHENARD WALCKER - CONSTANTLY CHANGING

ANTOINE BÉDARD - SET ADRIFT A MEMORY OF YOU (PM DAWN COVER)

CUALQUIERA - ANTES DE NADA

BR’ER - I’M NOT A SCIENTIST

SWINGOLOGY - RADIOACTIVE BLOOD ?

BOMBAY LAUGHING CLUB - WORKIN’ BOY BLUES

BENJAMÍN Z - MY BEST FRIEND

BAKERS AT DAWN - BEHIND EVERY LIE IS A POWERFUL TRUTH

KARAOCAKE - WE'RE NOT SCARED OF GHOSTS

X.O.X. - WOULD YOU BE MY

JENNIFER PLUMMER - THIS VIBE

JASON FORREST - TELEPHONE BOX

JOANOFARKE - COSMIC INTERFERENCE