Interview With a Cellonaut
Wolfram Huschke speaks out on his musical influences and talks about his instruments, mainly the E-Cellos. Another subject to be covered is that of composition.
27 May 2009
Category / Art & Content
Introducing “Cellonaut” Wolfram Huschke: Music Online Connects
He toured USA, South Africa and Europe and eventually charted in Belgium and Greece. Huschke supported Westernhagen, one of Germany's most acknowledged and successful rock acts during tour playing stadiums like Munich Olympic Stadium. Also, he collaborated with Peter Hamill and Marianne Faithfull on the Huschke solo album "Alien Diary" which was produced by Hector Zazou.
24 May 2009
Sing Me Any Song By Pete Doherty – Can You? (Gig Review)
I didn’t quite know what to expect when buying my ticket. I had the Babyshambles' Down In Albion and Shotter's Nation playing on iTunes every now and then. The ska/reggae bits I don't like that much, otherwise I was pleased (and curious) enough to check him out.
05 May 2009
Lawrence Lessig: An Endangered Species Called Culture
After publishing the most recent article on Dubber's pitch for Popkomm, I once more browsed Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 1.0 Generic License). Actually, I happened to find a metaphor he used that perfectly fits my comment on ContentSphere which I'd like you to think about.
28 April 2009
Popkomm’s arising: Dubber – Music, Culture, and an Industry Stifling Its Future
Andrew Dubber just recently pitched a topic to Popkomm - "Music As Culture". If you read the outline of this hopefully upcoming speech at New Music Strategies, you might recognise a bit of Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture". We've seen the USA extending copyright terms, and European countries suggesting to do so. Just yesterday, the European parliament voted in favour of a prolongation.
24 April 2009
GEMA vs. Jamendo et al. – Get Money for Nothing
You will remember my article on music distribution platform Jamendo going with Creative Commons. Today, I just read news from a week ago that they are about to integrate a new search tool. It supports promoters, agencies, movie makers and game manufacturers by providing search categories like mood, occasion, genre and language. Business customers of Jamendo who would like to make commercial use of tracks offered can purchase licenses within Jamendo PRO.
06 April 2009
Keep Culture Safe – Don’t You Dare to Touch It!
Michael Masnick had me checking out Richard Smith’s article on the issue of extending copyright. Richard Smith from London’s Guardian features the book "Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind" (free download under CreativeCommons license) by James Boyle, professor of law at Duke Law School, North Carolina. The books’ core statement is that "the world has made a colossal cultural mistake that shames our generation".
24 March 2009
Masnick on Reznor at Leadership Music Digital Summit 2009
Don't miss the chance to witness an updated version of his Trent Reznor case study. Yes, Trent did it again. Michael intends to refer to the latest online activities by Nine Inch Nails which started just two days ago at Twitter. Luckily enough, I just started running twhirl when Trent came up.
24 March 2009
Can artists make a living without ASCAP et al.? Jamendo says: “Yes!”
Jamendo is the world's first B2C music download service offering all tunes under the Creative Commons license. At least that is Jamendo's claim. Also, I do not know about any other one either. If there are small ones or large ones out there handling their business that way – please contact me. I really would be interested in your experience.
15 February 2009
Mike Masnick: Trent Reznor Paving Way for Future’s Music Business
At this year's Midem, Mike Masnick from Techdirt gave a presentation focused on how Trent Reznor/NIN is doing music business. It is worthwhile watching the video. Masnick's accompanying article can be found here. You will find additional comments there. Unsurprisingly, there are some issues mentioned which might be familiar if you read my previous articles on here.
06 February 2009