Sunday, September 2, 2012

Copyright, Fair Use & ReMix Culture-some resources

A big topic for anyone using, re-using, re-contextualizing, remixing found materials.  Learn the difference between work that is copyrighted, is within the Fair Use Doctrine, or is in Public Domain.
Electronic Frontier Foundation's FANTASTIC course: Teaching Copyright
Some useful shortcuts from their site:
Copyright FAQ
Fair Use FAQ
Public Domain FAQ
"Digital History – Owning the Past: A Brief History of Copyright" by Daniel J. Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig

(an essay)
Illegal Art by Derek Slater, 2005

Chart: Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States--January 2012
  Center for Social Media

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video



AUDIO SITES - radio, online, performative, storytelling

Radio and audio practitioners have reinvented the sonic experience.  Check 'em out.

Third Coast International Audio Festival - festival from Chicago
This American Life - Great weekly themed radio
programs (STORY TELLING at its best) out of WBEZ-Chicago. Excellent!
Storycorps-Traveling audio booth that lets ordinary people record stories w/friends & family
This I Believe- radio series of people writing, sharing, and discussing the core values and beliefs that guide their daily lives
The Moth Radio Hour--there's one in Detroit! and Ann Arbor!
Transom--Showcase and workshop for new public radio produced by Jay Allison. Includes archive of audio programs and technical resources, discussion
Turbulence.org - Specializes in showcasing networked art and audio projects
New Radio and Performing Arts - experimental radio and sound arts
Somewhere.org --Full length works --check out and listen

Sound art resources

(Reposted info courtesy of Stephanie Rowden)
For sound pieces about PLACE check out:


Michigan Radio + Art&Design's project: Sounds of the State. 22 seconds each! Peepers and Geese, Michelle Folkman; Prairie, Greg Laman (scroll under "Curated for Broadcast" to find these.)

 (miniature audio essay in a place) B-Flat Stairs from the Sonic ID project, WCAI-Radio, Atlantic Public Media (sounds and interviews that capture the rhythms of a place)

Adam Kampe, Crown the King, Red takes Black 

(musique concrete) Pierre Schaeffer, Etude aux chemins fers (2:54) Schaeffer is considered the originator of musique concrète – a form of musical composition in which sounds of natural origin – animate and inanimate– are recorded, manipulated and combined. This piece was created in 1948 out of recorded sounds of trains.

 The UBU.com site is a great compendium of experimental audio works, including work by artists.

Luigi Russolo & "The Art of Noise"

Media Art Net has some nice recordings and other info about Russolo's Futurist Manifesto, "The Art of Noise" from 1913, as does the wonderful UBUWEB. The manifesto text is here.