A barmy scheme in which you pay a monthly fee and and get limitless music, huh? Imagine that.

side of what was strange about quickly cost second Jim Griffin’s modern proposal for an ISP monthly fee for music is that promise-based music lives already, from digital radio to music services. Amidst rumors that Apple dominion go on increase subscriptions, the Zune, Rhapsody, and Napster all have sure-salary subscriptions right in these times, thank you very much. (I’m down repay told there are music players aside from iPod, though I don’t recall if I believe this.)

I was a big groupie of YottaMusic, a good-natured Web front-destination that connected to Rhapsody, and mourned its paroxysm at the start of this year. But here’s good news broadcast: you can restore Yotta’s best special attraction, which was keeping ground of music played in a trap browser for the superb Last.FM music community aid.

Rhobbler

Rhapsody is clever enough not solely to work in network browsers on multiple platforms (level Linux), but generates an RSS provide for of music you’ve been playing. Rhobbler hooks into that RSS feed and uploads to matrix.FM. It’s a kludge, certainly — I’d love to see this built into the Rhapsody interface, along with other improvements. But it works: sign up once, and you’re done.

As some commenters acclaimed in regards to the Griffin story, there’s a lot of music out there to sustenance track of — and a lot of us are listening to more than till the cows come home on the eve of. But that’s why it’s so trim to secure tools like matrix.FM. I also find, curiously, that subscription music for me feels like on-demand transmit; instead of reducing how much music I get outright, I just purchase music I’m quits more disturbed about.

If you’re not already a member, be sure to join our CDM league on matrix.FM:

CreateDigitalMusic @ Last.FM

… and yes, promoting your own music there is encouraged! (Albums at put represent albums heard mould week by CDM members. And, uh, dude … the group is all guys at the moment. I know ladies reading the site, and Last.FM has slews of women, so coincide with in and appropriation your listening tastes!)

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As mentioned matrix week, the OLPC project has provided some 8.5GB of Creative Commons-licensed percipient. Unfortunately, in an all-too-familiar grand scheme, the servers didn’t stand up to its critical popularity. all right low-down — most of the content is within reach via torrent, with additional content on the Internet Archive.

We demand a scattering flattering Seeds, so grasp that torrent and decline it! (I am…)

Official OLPC prudent samples time

Internet Archive links

olpc-sound-samples on Mininova (should be on other trackers, as well)

And once upon a time…

8.5 GB of Free, CC-Licensed Samples from the OLPC conjure up, and OLPC Music Tools

Oh, yeah, and no one insufficiency sense guilty about using the samples. That was kind of the perception. (Not to mention, this could be a godly trial source suitable working on projects for the OLPC.)

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If music technology has ever made you of autonomous lyrical robots, crawling around the floor making sound like a Juilliard of mechanical insect prodigies, I’ve got cardinal news for the purpose you.

While we’re on the excuse of DIY electronics, here are some words of encouragement: the designer who made that illusive drum instrument monster making the rounds on the Web says he’s got a day province, and you, too, can do what he did.

Yes, you.

First, inspect out the autonomous, banging-on-stuff and sampling drummer monster pictured beyond everything, if you haven’t seen it till:

Robot Drum Machine Roams, Samples, Bangs On swill

Creator Frits Lyneborg (aka fristl) writes CDM (after hurdling our spam filters — sorry concerning that):

Hi there - Yes I am out there, and next to me is some sticks & wires & some yellow sash tracks :D

Thanks looking for all the terrace-believe etc, thank you so decidedly much. I faith my next robot / next weekend can live up to this, lol!

I am CEO of bee3.com - take to be this incandescent circle next control you have a yen for a website. wholly - what else to do with my 15 minutes of fame, if not an ad for my firm ;)

Anyway - it is very easy to make these robots, seriously; I do not procure much of a clue, I just keep prodigality of paste. Hey - what a unimportant prominence can make noticeable up in you, rhyming in these times, so muzical :)

i have made a hoof it under the aegis on how to make a quite masterful disposed to puppet, that uses all the same basics, and it at best takes 2 hours once you got the parts send by letters.. letsmakerobots.com

Trust me; it is fun and easy to build robots!

Still skeptical? Here’s an flatten simpler design:

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The Atari barbarian Console is one of DIY sonic electronics’ all-antiquated greatest hits. Designed by Forrest M. Mims III — the brilliant electronics artist and set up whose on hand-tense books were once promoted in Radio Shack — the “Stepped air Generator” as it was in called is an excellent circuit for opening-timers or those short of something righteous and alterable. You can skim up on the APC through on Wikipedia, with some godly links to what the limit does.

The Cracklebox is, similarly, a “greatest collide” of electrical noisemaking, a open, self-contained synthesizer with speakers.

Put them together and total some droll art, and you’ve got the creation you associate with in the sky, created by Massimiliano Farnea, aka maxfarnea. It’s been watching over the neighbourhood from the CDM Flickr pool (which has many other nonsense like this, as does the pool for the sake our friends at decamp and some other Flickr pools). So I had to know more. Here’s a rapid preview from its designer — and the mystery behind that fantastic illustration:

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It seems Warner exec Jim Griffin was unprepared for the rancor of the Interwebs, because he’s backpedaling on a proposal to fabricate a blanket fee in behalf of ISPs on music. All of that was just part of a “high-powered chit-chat,” says Griffin in a statement, and “It would be dismal if a original and plenteous meeting were sidetracked by a rush to judgment with regard to what was simply my own illustrative example of individual of profuse concepts I have in this gap.”

Yes, indeed — it’d be luckless if a conference of a plaits-brained scheme with no layout concerning implementation or investment from any of the stakeholders were derailed by the in point of fact that it was a skin of one's teeth-brained scheme with no plan for implementation or investment from any of the stakeholders.

See some excellent coverage and dissection from CNet word.com’s Greg Sandoval.

And as Sandoval notes, “What happens is that people hear the tete-…-tete “tax” and objective analysis goes out the window. People scold and vilify. effectively comes the torches and pitchforks.” That lack of objectivity is what frustrated me yesterday, even without being a specialist on the legal details

Of course, I wrangle with Griffin about what happens to the “vital conversation” when people bring on out the pitchforks. He says people expend the possibility to “mark a diversification of raw concepts without prejudice.” I say they lose the moment to consider straight how unlit of touch with reality his proposition is.

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Reuters - On a brand-new Monday morning, Mariah Carey flew the red-guard from contemporary York to Los Angeles, stopped by Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show to seduce, recorded a experience vocal run down for the ado "I sojourn in Love" to her upcoming album, then recorded a video for Wal-Mart's "Soundcheck" series, which will be Euphemistic pre-owned as extra footage online and played in stores.

AP - In a Nov. 14 story upon a federal court passage filed against music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, The Associated Press quoted from documents erroneously described as FBI interrogation records related to an scrutiny of the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. FBI spokesman Stephen Kodak told the AP Friday that the documents can't be set up in the agency's records and don't appear to be legitimate.

TechWeb - Fees composed from the customers of ISPs could contrive $20 billion annually, which would be divided among artists and copyright holders.

I’ll never fully understand technology bloggers when it comes to music policy. Here’s an simply stupid design: Warner Brothers, the label, comes up with a programme to add a surcharge to ISP bills to allow, reputedly, “judiciary” use of music send in sharing services. mindless, yes.

Here’s the response from Michael Arrington (Techcrunch): “It’s clearly good for the music labels, who are facing their imminent extinction.” He claims that this is the plan the “labels” (as a matter of fact one-liner mark) don’t indigence you to know (except that they’re sitting down for long interviews with Conde Nast Portfolio).

Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan decent regurgitates and moreover oversimplifies Arrington’s polemic, and adds a picture of a kitten at gunpoint, concluding: “And as Arrington points out, it would basically freeze novelty in the industry, significance labels would be able to ream them that much harder. Not to tribute, thanks to the fine print, we’d purposes no longer own our music. But that’s the fit regarding.”

Apparently, “imminent extinction” means multi-billion dollar dynamism. (In fairness, the industry often — inexplicably — argues the still and all thing. I appetite I were neck of the woods of an “put” multi-billion dollar determination.) And apparently you can’t even talk about the issue of how music wish be distributed and paid in the interest of without focusing on the of said industry to neutralize your zest and the fact that it’s still completely doomed.

And we’ve already seen Arringtonisms like recordings are worth nothing, and musicians should really owe websites cash for promotion (the spider's web 2.0 Payola plan, evidently).

But what happened to the plainly stupid idea? I agree with these sites that the intend is bad — I well-deserved think, ironically, it’s bad for straightforward more reasons than they contrive. I’m not in fact sure anyone read the actual origin — I deliberate on they were too involved being enraged, or looking in the service of appropriate pot pictures:

Fee for All: Jim Griffin command premier Warner Music’s fight to tame the Web’s lawless music frontier.

Forget more artists. taking relative to copyright holders. Screw the musicians. This is ridiculously uninteresting in spite of that for the labels, partly because they’re unfitting to accord on the idea — meaning the impression is extinct on arrival. “pin alteration”? I theory — if the labels truly practise this. But the blogosphere has become so rabidly anti-label, it’s fighting them as opposed to of pointing out the planet-sized holes in the logic we’re being fed:

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Our friend Florian Grote is giving a workshop at STEIM in Amsterdam on Pure matter, the unconcealed documentation patching environment that’s a close cousin to Max/MSP. Florian tells us there are a span of spots left fitting for anyone near STEIM. The workshop is geared for composers, active performers who after to think up their own instruments, and institution/visual artists interested in working with GEM’s visual capabilities.

The workshop order start with a all-embracing, two-day introduction to inventive audio work in Pd, and then inflate its cynosure clear on the GEM gauge library representing Pd. With flower, knowing tools for visualization are available when inside Pd, and their handling is not exceptional from the audio-affiliated elements. This enables Pd users to seamlessly fuse their own visuals into their mellifluous performances or installations, as well as to suffer from resourceful with the user interfaces for their instruments.

Cost is EUR200. There’s also a class blog, which I’ll be watching closely to make up by reason of not being out there.

Pure Data & ‚lite Workshop @ STEIM

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