Electronic Music NewsWarner To YouTube: Stop The Music!
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- Warner To YouTube: Stop The Music!
- Mobile Music: Band Geeks Play iPhones Not Instruments
- SXSW: Lasting impressions in a down climate
- New album reimagines Nat King Cole songbook
Warner To YouTube: Stop The Music!
ChannelWeb
That deal neither grandfathers in existing content nor does it discern between a professionally produced music video and an amateur performance. So now YouTube’s Content ID tool is being used to censor the videos. Back in February the Electronic Frontier Foundation expressed its concern about the dangers of automated filtering systems like the Content ID system: “These systems are still primitive and unable to distinguish a tranformative remix from copyright infringement” wrote Fred von Lohmann. “So unless they leave lots of breathing room for remixed content these filters end up sideswiping lots of fair uses.
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Mobile Music: Band Geeks Play iPhones Not Instruments
Wired News
04) and is obsessed with making electronic music as mobile as possible. “The iPhone holds a lot of potential for what kind of music can be made and how it can be made” Wang says.
SXSW: Lasting impressions in a down climate
Los Angeles Times
The economic realities of 2009 were a relatively obvious topic but life for the many of the artists in Texas this week — a record-setting 1900 of them this year — has never exactly been easy. "During hard times I didn’t have much education or stuff like that to rely on" said the New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain reminding attendees at one of SXSW’s numerous panels that artists are comfortable with recession-time living even in flush decades. "I wanted to take a job where I could still do my performances or if I got drunk the night before I wouldn’t get fired. "There’s always been a class system among artists — a gap between the superstars who pack arenas and the unknowns who play somewhere between five and 10 mini-sets over the course of SXSW.
New album reimagines Nat King Cole songbook
MiamiHerald.com
The Roots the acclaimed Philadelphia hip-hop collective brings a twinkling quality to Walkin My Baby Back Home while funk auteur Amp Fiddler takes wild liberties with Anytime Anyday Anywhere. ”That one” Carole Cole said with a chuckle “I was hoping that maybe my dad’s fans wouldn’t have too big a problem with it. ”Remixes of classic songbooks are a familiar part of electronic music these days. There have been a half-dozen releases in the Verve Remixed series for instance where top DJs apply their sonic alchemy on tracks by Louis Armstrong Billie Holiday and others and of course the Cole family is quite familiar with the possibilities of posthumous music re-engineering after the success of Unforgettable: With Love the 1991 release that meshed the voices of Natalie Cole and her late father and won the Grammy for album of the year. A BIG CHANCEThat project was a musical valentine within the family but Carole Cole said this new venture is about the world taking possession of her father’s legacy. ”Bringing Dad together with these extraordinary musicians” she said “and giving them almost complete autonomy was a total leap of faith but we believed we could find something profound. ”The artists involved said they left the project with a deeper appreciation of Cole and his music.