May 2010
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$5 or less album sale! →
All records are $5 or less (or more if you choose to)!!
Records by bands like Tera Melos, This Town Needs Guns, Rx Bandits, Omar Rodriguez Lopez…
I could go on, but I’m gonna go check it out now. :P
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TEDx: Johanna Blakley-Lessons from fashion's free... →
Johanna Blakley talks about the fashion world’s lack of copyright protections and discusses how the other art/creative mediums can learn from this.
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The Swinger →
A product of Music Hack Day, this piece of Python code will apply ‘swing’ to any piece of music. How does it do it, you ask? Well, it alternatively ‘extends’ and ‘compresses’ (time-wise) the beats of a song, giving it that ‘daa-ts daa-ts’; or, swung note, if you’re more musically inclined.
I suppose this wouldn’t quite work with a band...
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End of the song →
Have you ever seen that Monty Python skit where two mafia guys try to extort some protection money from an army base general?
Strangely (sadly?), this story (and a few others that I’ve heard of) makes me think of that skit. You open a nice little coffee shop and things are good. Shortly after, an ASCAP rep comes to your door ramming this ‘copyright infringement insurance’...
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Music score notation in the browser →
This has got to be one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments!
With the magic of <canvas> and some Javascript (thank you HTML5!!), Mohit Muthanna has managed to make pretty sheet music for the browser. The code seems to be inspired directly from Lilypond. I’ll be eagerly checking in on its progress often, I’m sure.
Kudos Mr. Muthanna, a stroke of...
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German Unemployed Get a Boost Through Music →
Music brings the unemployed together in a city in Germany.
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Shirky: Napster tapped into our primate instincts →
FTA:
“Back in the old days we used to have something called a CD collection,” Shirky said facetiously. “It was something like keeping the box that the Amazon books came in, but you kept the container the music was in all the time…If somebody else came over to my house and said, ‘That Vanilla Ice track is slammin’! Can I have that?’ No! This is my copy...
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Copyright law must be simplified →
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The digital economy bill is driven by incompetence, not malice. Ably assisted by a three-line whip. And what justified incompetence! The copyright situation in this country is utterly confusing. Parts of the bill that have solid commercial sense behind them, such as clause 43, interact with so many other laws and precedents that it will be impossible to find a solution to the orphan works...