Music Campaign Spring 06

The following is from an email from Ben M. Everyone, of course, is welcome to edit this page as our goals become clearer.

The theme is: Listen, Share, Create.

Listen:

Plenty of free, legal music is already out there. Both independent and well-known bands give their music out under a less-restricted license. Music fans should definitely know about the places to get such music. The websites I'll include in the promotion are:

http://archive.org/audio

http://creativecommons.org

http://last.fm

http://www.jamendo.com/en/

http://amiestreet.com/

http://magnatune.com/

http://etree.org

http://thecoversproject.org/

Podcasts and Streaming Radio:

http://shoutcast.com

http://wsrnfm.org

How are we going to get the word out? Some time in February, we'll have display windows at Underhill. I'd also like to make flyers/ pamphlets and put them inside all the libraries/prime locations. I'd REALLY like help on these things, if someone wants to volunteer for some basic production/distribution with me.

Share:

There are student groups already on campus. They want to get their material out there. We want to enable this. I'm not sure exactly what we want to do here. The iTunes U idea has fallen through, so we either have to set up our own server (hard), or just let musicians find their own hosts (plenty out there, plus SCCS)). If we do the latter, we'd need information about the websites/resources that we can send people to.

Create:

This is the long-term aspect. Someone has to get involved in the creation of the recording studio at wsrn. I'd like to be kept up-to- date on that. But that's going to take a while. If we can get the mysterious "$400 box" for Olde Club, we can offer recording to student groups in the near future.

So, we need to create an SBC proposal. Whoever did the research for this, please send me the technical information about the purchase, where you'd purchase it, what it would do, etc., and I'll write up a proposal.

Pamphlets/flyers/Underhill won't be able to give all the information about each of these things, so I'm going to write up pages for each of these in our Wiki, and we'll be sending people to these pages for more information.