When you say "free lo-fi music by me", is that free as in I can use your music without remuneration to you?
Not trying to sound like a prick. I like your tunes and could find use for them in a few videos I have planned. David http://www.davidhowellstudios.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Adam Quirk, Wreck & Salvage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Back in town, re-reading the Podtech v. Bui thread. I just want to talk a > little more about copyright and the "ownership" of art, as I felt compelled > to scratch Mr. Rice's mosquito bite about being "trollish" ;) I don't mean > to start an argument here, I just need to understand how people feel about > the things they are making, and I want you all to understand how I feel. > > A friend of mine wrote an essay on music a couple years ago called The > History of What My Dog Can't Hear: > > http://www.geartekcorporation.com/texts/essay2.html > > The essay is about changing the way we perceive music, and accepting it as > something that is not ownable: > > The ownership or authorship of anything is a deception, surely. But I take > > no issue with the ownership of objects in the world, like a broom or a drum > > for example. Music however, is a thing not in the world, and the present > > deception of its ownability places limits on our consciousness. My > > motivation here is not to sell iPods. If this near biblical manifesto-mill > > can be accused of having any agenda at all, it is merely to assist an > > already rising consciousness. Neither are these paragraphs commandments or a > > bugle call to what we need to realize or do. We didn't need to be able to > > hear tone in music or need to be aware of its color - it's just the way > > music is happening to us, rising on a path like the moon. Some astronomers > > can predict the path of the moon, and surely artists are those astronomers. > > I understand those who are skeptical or scoff at this as pompous and > > irrelevant. After all, when you look at the moon, the moon looks still. > > > He feels the same way about music as I do about my videos, and at the end he > says, EXTRA CREDIT: Re-read this entire essay but replace the word "music" > with the word "images." > > Re-reading it I realized that I unconsciously lifted metaphor directly from > him. Blatant plagiarism! I've already informed him and a check is in the > mail. > > Because music is a matter of shifting consciousness and not worldly sound, a > > person can't claim to own or control music any more than they can claim to > > own or control a quadrant of mist over a lake. > > > PS. Here is a free album of amazing midi-synthesizer and home-made > electronic instrument music by the author of that essay: > http://www.geartekcorporation.com/slowdudes/slowdudes.html > > And some free lo-fi music by me: > http://standards.bullemhead.com/ > > -- > Adam Quirk > Wreck & Salvage > 551.208.4644 > Brooklyn, NY > http://wreckandsalvage.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
