The other day I emailed a netlabel to ask if I could rehost their album art. They didn’t have a version of it online for me to include using a direct link, and it wasn’t under a permissive license that would permit me to redistribute it.
Then yesterday I emailed a fellow who had put [...]
Here are David Porter’s calculations on the health of webcasting as a business:
Internet radio revenues, however, were estimated at a mere $92,000,000 — not so impressive. A quick bit of math is revealing: $92m/4.85bn = $0.0190 per hour. That is to say, revenue/hour was just shy of 2 cents. Unfortunately, the [...]
Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article):
If every user who had a cracked copy of Windows had a legitimate version of Linux instead, what would the percentage of computers running Linux be? More than there are now, that’s for sure.
That’s also true for music.
Unauthorized distribution is bad for open media.
gurdonark:
This whole technological revolution is useless [...]
Ad-Supported Music Central: The Times is a Great Textbook
In any industry the low-cost producer of substitutable goods will always win (whether recorded music is substitutable is open to debate but I would argue that it is, sicne listeners have virtually unlimited choice in what to spend their time listening to). It seems like the recorded [...]
Per NPR
Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a Rolling Stones song.
Culture relies on shared references. [...]
This post is a short, jittery, very loose, and slightly overdriven acoustic guitar version of a tune called “Anna Waltz” which was composed by a guy named D.E. Jannon and published in 1854. I learned it from sheet music at the Library of Congress web site.
MP3: Lucas Gonze — Amy Waltz (1:36)
This recording is [...]
This post is one of my acoustic guitar recordings. It is a tune called “Carrie Waltz” which was composed by a guy named D.E. Jannon and published in 1854. I learned it from sheet music at the Library of Congress web site.
Lucas Gonze — Carrie Waltz
I’m only publishing an MP3, not an [...]
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This is an experiment I’m doing with Jay Dedman. He made the video, I made the music.
Jay Dedman hooked up my 2 spirit of gods music with his crazy arms videoblog entry. In the posting that started the thread, he had a licensing problem with music:
After posting my video today for Videoblogging [...]
This is two guitar instrumental versions of the Mormon hymn “Spirit of God.” Neither has much of a godly spirit to it. I like them for the phrasing.
For more information on this hymn see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_God_Like_a_Fire_Is_Burning. I learned the tune from sheet music at Mutopia. I blogged a previous version of [...]
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Monday 856 AM (ogg)
Monday 856 AM (mp3)
This post is a recording of my own music. The song is an instrumental on acoustic guitar. It is one track played live with no overdubs or edits.
The tune is entitled “Monday 856 AM.” I wrote and recorded it before work on 3/19.
The song, including [...]