Blog Link Roundup

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but here are a few good articles I came across recently:

Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM

The funkiest Cover Ever

Problems with CC attribution clauses

Ubuntu studio - Linux for multimedia creation

Link Roundup

Here is a gigantic link dump, can you tell that I'm cleaning out my RSS feed reader?



Record player made of paper

New Barenaked Ladies single as free, remixable multitracks

Coalition of Canadian Art Professionals Releases Open Letter on Copyright

Mathematical Proofs Set to Music

Roomba hacked into slightly cruddy musical instrument

Orphan works bill introduced: could give old creativity a new life

Historical Sounds in MP3 Format

Super-cool Fairlight CMI video on YouTube... mmm... old skool text mode step sequencer.

Negativland on copyfight -- video

Copyfighting Canadian musicians talk about Parliament meetings

Byrne/Eno's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" -- remix it yourself!

Canada's New Democratic Party embraces copyfighting musicians

Brazil's digital rights/open source -- MP3 of panel discussion

Freaknomics on Jane Siberry's pay-what-you-want music store

MP3 of flexidisc advertising old British holiday campst

The Clash on Fridays, 1980

Classic multi-ending MAD flexidisc MP3s

Free MP3: 1961 record of computer speaking and singing

Glitchdesk - couture circuit bending

Famous Sounds - Impressive catalog of famous samples and sound sources. (from the witness exchange)

Nerdcore artists to release nerd-rap compilation disc

Link Roundup

It looks like a bad case of "insanely busy in meatspace" has hit the whole PTR staff at the same time, apologies for the crazy lag in postings around here. We do have a couple good articles and reviews in the works, though, so stay tuned. In the meantime, check these rad links:



Stevie Wonder and Eighties electronics

Frank Zappa's anti-censorship letter

last night a dubplate saved my life

Free MP3: folk cover of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" - all kinds of whiteys covering hip hop tunes there...

Barenaked Ladies frontman on copyright reform

Free music: 1961 synthesized speech audio, remixed.

Sony screwing artists out of iTunes royalties, customers out of first-sale

Link Roundup

Studio One Love

How The THX Noise Was Created -- It wasn't as simple as you would have thought.

version a version wayne catalogs the journey of sample from bollywood to dub.

Intro Looper Make an audio looper for under $20

new source for samples (sample the the IRS Tax Code podcast)

Jamaica: The Most Homophobic Place on Earth? (from wayne&wax)

Archaeoacoustics - pipe dream or possibility?

Blog Link Roundup

The New Moog: More pics & my questions answered

Boss Bass Synth Watch

The State of Digital Music in 2006

More Music File-Sharing Lawsuits in Europe

Radiohead's "Fitter Happier": cool fan-made internet video

moron whiteness, more on whiteness

Sex Pistols perform Anarchy in the UK on TV in 1976

Blog Link Roundup

Byrne/Eno "Bush of Ghosts" tracks re-released under CC (2 tracks, not the whole thing)

Bragg changes Ledbelly's "Bourgeois Blues" to "Bush War Blues": free MP3

Canadian recording industry: P2P isn't bad for business

Algorithmic Political-Media-Mashup Vodcast

How to Prevent Hearing Loss

Audio scan of NYC FM band the night John Lennon was shot

Software turns human beatbox into close-match samples from videos

Wonderful hillbilly mouth sounds: Eephing

MPAA/RIAA/BSA: No breaking DRM, even if it's killing you (literally!)

Fight for your right to keitai: geeks in Japan protest anti-vintage-tech ban

Blog Link Roundup

Radiohead bootleg cover video: Just (graffitti animation)

Creative Commons License Upheld by Dutch Court

hamhocks and henanigans

Warner Music sponsors CC-licensed mashup contest

WB band "Fort Minor" does Creative Commons remix contest

Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market

Audio files of The Rolling Stones making "Their Satanic Majesties Request"

Greg Fleischut's teenage folktronica and bluegrass

Feds bust Ryan Adams fans for leaking pre-release tracks

Blog Link Roundup

The 60 Inch Subwoofer - The Biggest Subwoofer Ever Made

Mix your own Super Mario Bros tune

Electro Class: A Crunk Genealogy

Yahoo music exec: labels should try selling music without DRM

Free CC music on community WiFi network

Podzinger: search the full text of podcasts

Free music and movie trailer sound from SXSW:06

Playing the World From a Basement

Blog Link Roundup

Video: a DJ plays a streetscene like a turntable

Composing music with Electroplankton

Website for David Byrne/Fatboy Slim musical "Here Lies Love" now live

Laser turntable plays records like CDs

Tom Waits' High School yearbook for sale

120 Years of Electronic Music: Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990

Diss songs go back to the 1830s or longer

Malaysia bans metal as un-Islamic. For those about to rock: jail

Blog Link Roundup

Ok, so this week's "Blog Link Roundup" is basically a boingboing roundup, too many good stories there recently to pass up:



Video: rapper dressed like a jelly donut kicking ass (from boingboing)

Dot matrix printer music (from boingboing)

MP3s from 1960s LP about groupies (from boingboing)

Musician playing at Hollywood's MP fundraiser owes success to copying (from boingboing)

Joseph Goebbels's Nazi swing band (from boingboing)

Blog Link Roundup

Excel based drum machine (from hackaday)

5000 Early Wax Cylinder Recordings Placed Online (from /.)

Anti-teenager sound weapon (from boingboing)

David Byrne gets RIAA warning. Clearly he's just a pirate who doesnt care about artists... (from boingboing)

Band that released whole catalog as MP3s seeking donations (from boingboing)

American Idiot was mashed up ... then it was cease and desisted off the web... but you can still download it here