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• 05.08.09
  Matthew Lovett Researchers | (0)

  Matthew Lovett is an improvising musician based at the University of Wales, Newport. After training with Keith Tippett, he worked for a number of years as an improviser and composer performing at the Sonic Arts Network Expo, the Venn Festival as well as touring with a number of musical projects in the UK, Ireland and America. Having studied critical theory and philosophy under Terence Hawkes and Catherine Belsey, he has subsequently combined his interests in improvised music with a rigorous analytical approach, publishing a poststructuralist critique of improvised music practice in the Journal of the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory ...
• 05.08.09
  Young People “would give up sex for music” Blog | (1)

  This report, commissioned by Marrakesh Records from media consultancy Human Capital, makes chilling reading for businesses which generate revenue by selling recorded music: "we find that the majority would even sacrifice sex for music. And yet music is increasingly becoming a commodity for which young people do not expect to pay." I came across it whilst doing some work  for the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property which has recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into consumer attitudes and behaviours to IP in the online environment from a team at UCL. One of their major findings is that all the serious surveys into how ...
• 05.07.09
  Florian Koempel Participants | (0)

  Legal Counsel, European Affairs UK Music UK Music is a new umbrella organisation representing the collective interests of the UK’s commercial music industry, from artists, musicians, songwriters and composers, to major and independent record labels, managers, music publishers, studio producers and collecting societies. Florian Loempel’s Responsibilities cover: Analysis of any relevant public policy, regulatory or legislative material at national, European and international level Developing and implementing British Music Rights’ lobbying strategy in coordination with UK Music member organisations and other right holders’ organisations (e.g. British Copyright Council, the Alliance Against IP Theft, Digital Content Forum) UK Music’s Rights Committee: setting agendas, and drafting legal submissions Representation ...
• 05.07.09
  Adam Hoyle FML2 Participants, Participants | (1)

  Adam is a game designer, musician and computer programmer who works extensively in the arts and has worked collaboratively with a wide range of artists from different disciplines. As a key member of seminal 90s interactive art collective audioRom, he began creating interactive music systems, both online and within gallery and club spaces. During his career, he has earned two British Academy awards (one for audioRom's enhanced CD "shiftControl" and the other for "Antarctic Waves", a collaboration with Braunarts and the British Antarctic Survey), additional he has a D&AD silver pencil for "Caffeine Society" with Mario Cavalli. Recent arts projects ...
• 05.07.09
  Full text of the Lawrence Lessig book “Remix” Blog | (4)

  Carl Morris, your fellow participant here. I'm looking forward to our discussion. Here's a warm up I'd like to share. Lawrence Lessig is a law professor and activist with some (perhaps) provocative views about the future of copyright and content. Lessig is probably best known as the founder of Creative Commons, an organisation which advocates the use of copyright licences which allow a certain amount of sharing and re-adaptation - in other words, releasing copyrighted material with "some rights reserved". Fittingly he's managed to persuade his publisher to make his latest book Remix available as a free PDF. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm I'm still reading and I'd like ...
• 05.06.09
  Wil Stevens FML2 Participants, Participants | (0)

  Wil Stephens is founder and CEO of Cube, an interactive production company specialising in broadband and cross-platform productions. He has worked extensively with S4C, C4 and BBC. Credits include Doctor Who spin-off Department Six, Freesports on 4 and Contact High.
Last year, Wil won a Bafta Cymru award for S4C's online kids service Cyw and a Celtic Media Festival award for Interactivity.
• 05.06.09
  Ged Day FML2 Participants, Participants | (0)

  Ged Day is founder and CEO of People's Music Store, a music download service which combines the forces of social discovery, e-commerce and viral marketing, enabling music fans to create and promote their own personal music store. Launched in February this year, the service currently has a licensed catalogue of over 600,000 tracks from labels including Universal, Beggars, Domino, Warp and Ninja Tune. Starting out as a DJ in 1987, Ged has enjoyed a long and varied career within the music industry, always striving to combine his love of music and technology. Prior to People's Music Store, Ged spent 7 years ...
• 05.06.09
  Neil Cocker FML2 Participants, Participants | (0)

  Occasionally known as “Neil Raygun”, Neil was a co-founder of Wales’ all-time most successful electronic music label, Plastic Raygun, and ran its Marketing and A&R for 5 years. He helped steer the label to many awards, plenty of underground smashes and a Top Ten hit. On top of this he's performed live on BBC Radio One, at countless clubs and events (Glastonbury, The Big Chill etc etc) in over 30 other countries across Europe, Asia, Australia and America. He is currently setting up Dizzyjam, a new project which will be a "merchandising solution" for the music industry, and is also the ...
• 05.06.09
  Blog | (0)

  Forum between the industry and the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) or Ofcom becoming the Digital Rights Police??? Lord Carter thinks “It is a waste of time telling young people that swapping music is illegal”…… Why don’t we just pay more tax to build file sharing prisons for young offenders.
• 05.06.09
  Matthew Cheetham FML2 Participants, Participants | (0)

  Matthew Cheetham is co-founder and content director at samurai.fm, a curated online music platform that presents shows from an eclectic range of contributing artists, labels, festivals and organisations to an international audience of music fans. Started in Tokyo 6 years ago it was one of the first sites in Japan to offer on-demand programming and is still one of the few Japanese language sites to provide an unbiased guide to electronic and cutting edge musical forms, although now it's userbase now extends around the world. Matt is involved in the non-developmental side of the station setting up partnerships with content providers, ...

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