Making a difference for human beings long before spoken and written language, music continues to be at the front lines of the battle for digital freedom and the real new economy. We are listening for voices, rhythms, and actions that value musicians for the leaders they are in our communities and our economy.
My song Destination Non-Specific has spread on Youtube mostly because users are forced to strip the copyrighted music from their videos (using YouTube's audioswap function), and are offered Creative Commons music like mine to replace it.
The first ones were pretty random, like the first, Thunder Bay Flyover.
Then, a few months ago, I got a pretty interesting one where user comments were upset cause the song was used on top of a popular video from one of their favorite artists. The users of course weren't that happy, but it was interesting to see some of the comments were positive about the song.
Then today I realized did a search and realized that the song had been used a lot, so did a search on youtube for "Destination Non-Specific" and it came up about 50 results on Youtube.
When I was browsing, I noticed a user named annamaisa had even made an actual music video for the song, and it's actually pretty beautiful (and viewed over 10,000 times). See here.
Overall, people continue to validate my belief that many of us are living in the emerging gift economy. While I still have not leveraged any my life long social capital for actual tangible cash capital, I think that day might be coming soon.
Thanks all for the collaboration. Let's keep building the new economy. Check out "350 Make a Choice" from MuskokaDreamscape, which uses an alionsonny remix of my CCmixter track Everyday Choices to promote 350.org's climate action campaign.
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Check an interview with yours truly over on the Creative Commons blog. Feels cool to be recognized by the folks over at CC. Thanks Cameron!
Colin Mutchler is one of the original CC success stories. Back in 2003, he posted his song, My Life, to Opsound under a CC BY-SA license. A month later a violinist name Nora Beth added a violin track, calling the new work My Life Changed. It was one of the first instances of CC facilitating unsolicited collaboration, laying the ground work for the amazing remix culture we have seen develop over the past 5 years. Mutchler has since expanded his resume, working on photography and media production as well as his music. We caught up with him recently to find more about what he has been up to since we last checked in - needless to say, it has been a while.
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Internet Dream is a song and video about my love and dreams for the internet. The words were written while I was teaching at Public School 7 (K-6th grade) in East Harlem. The images were gathered from some of my own photographs, as well as some public domain photos and screen shots of websites.
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I like this. They say we're dreamers, but we're not the only ones.
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Finally had my first live acoustic show in several years, also first in London, on Thursday night. My friend and coworker Tomas filmed most of the show on his Nokia N95 8GB. His note is below. It's actually pretty good quality considering it was on his phone. Check out the full youtube playlist of the show, or check the videos below.
From Tomas:
My phone’s camera decided to go on standby just as Colin started the Improv. I missed exactly the part where he sings about the office and work … so at least I’ll share Colin’s Facebook status from Wednesday evening:I want to leave the office.
I am not leaving the office.
My head feels like a computer.
This is why mobile is the way forward.
1.) Caste on a Hill
2.) Moist Lies
3.) God and America (tentative title, may change)
4.) Improv (part 2)
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