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Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up) Live at the Rivoli Ballroom
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The XX vs Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot - Silicone Shelter - King Unique
Read more . . . →I've been listening to this for a long time now, and I really love this song. Here's proof that our future is not becoming less free.
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Read more . . . →Now we should be forwarding to feedburner for posts
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Class 9: Culture Creators
Read more . . . →Watch: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) Reading: 1) Higgins, John M. "MPAA Cuts Deal with BitTorrent." Broadcasting & Cable. 135.50 (2005): 31-34. Print. 2) Imfeld, Cassandra. "PLAYING FAIR WITH FAIR USE? THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT’S IMPACT ON ENCRYPTION RESEARCHERS AND ACADEMICIANS." Communication Law and Policy. 111.144 (2003): 122-136. Print. My next week looks into the hegemonic rule that so called “culture creators” hold. I wanted to contrast RiP!: A Remix Manifesto’s philosophy about free media with the current role that organizations such as the MPAA and RIAA have in enforcing laws and lobbying for harsher penalties. The...
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D. Ramirez Gear Review: Episode 1 DSI Prophet 8
Read more . . . →A great UK House Producer, D. Ramirez reviews a piece of Dave Smith gear in his studio in this video. About the video: "He asked us if he could send us a load of videos of him fiddling about with sexy new kit - and so here we are. The first episode sees him get his hands on the new DSI Prophet 8 keyboard synth - especially interesting for those producers out there who have never seen an outboard synth working up close." DT-TV: D.Ramirez's Gear Review #1 from Ben Gomori on Vimeo.
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New Feature: Gear Reviews
Starting next month coldplaysucks.com will have a new feature of special interest to computer musicians; gear review. This will be a combination of reposts from other streams that I follow in the music industry as well as a place to post my own experiences with the hardware that I'm using.Read more . . . → -
Lady Gaga & Elton John's Performance @ The Grammy Awards 2010
Read more . . . →Lady Gaga and Elton John's Performance! Awesome!
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Henry Jenkins on Transmedia
The major shift has been from spectatorial media where we participate one way, and participatory media where we can all collaborate and contribute. ... This had social media links which allowed official and participatory media to be uploaded on youtube and seen by everyone giving a way to new perspectives.Read more . . . → -
What the iPad means for music
Look at what has been happening with the JazzMutant Lemur as a malleable music controller and what has already been happening with iPhone music apps, and it’s clear that music developers are going to have fun with the Apple iPad. ... Apple iPad Features: 9.7″ Full capacitive multitouch screen .5″ thick 1 GHz Apple A4 processor 16GB-GB Flash storage Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR WiFi 802.11n Built-in speaker, microphone, 30-pin connectors Accelerometer Compass 10 hour battery life in use Runs all iPhone apps 3G wireless options, with a $30/month unlimited plan, with international options by the summer.Read more . . . → -
Is our future becoming less free? A course on recent audio-visual history
Learning Objectives: -Examine and utilize a variety of information/media exchange systems (bit torrent, social media, file sharing, forums) -Examine audience trends with pirate media or non-standard distribution systems (legal torrents, YouTube trends) -Understand and explore the impacts of the legal systems surrounding copyright -Develop an understanding of new technologies and their relationship to the multimedia they create -Have an understanding of the synergistic relationship between content creators and consumers and the idea of the “prosumer” Class 1: Avatars and Simulacrum 1 Watch: Surrogates (Mostow, 2009) Read: 1) Weisbuch, Max, Zorana Ivcevic, and Nalini Ambady. ... "RIAA, MPAA, and the Digital Piracy Issue: Comparing Public Relations Strategies and Effectiveness" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Sheraton New York, New York City, NY, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p14465_index.html Week 11: Copyright, copyleft Watch: Good Copy, Bad Copy (Johnson, Christensen, Moltke 2007) Read: Pouwelse, J., P.Read more . . . →