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Antina Michels

Netlabels- soziale Netze on- und offline

In ihrer ethnologischen Studie über das Phänomen Netaudio untersucht die Ethnologin Antina Michels, Co-Organisatorin des Netaudio Festivals 2009, auf welche Art und Weise Netaudio produziert werden, wie deren Akteure in lokalen und transnationalen Netzwerken kooperieren und auf welche Weise alternative Modelle zur konventionellen Musikindustrie entstehen können.

Durch die zahlreichen in dieser Pionierarbeit enthaltenen Interview-Passagen, Bilder und Beschreibungen bekommt der Leser einen authentischen Einblick in die Motive und Handlungsweisen der Akteure. Als eine der ersten wissenschaftlich fundierten Studien zum ‘Phänomen Netaudio’ kann dieses Buch als Fundament für weiterführende Untersuchungen im Themenbereich Netlabels und Netaudio empfohlen werden.

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Antina Michels (ed./ Hg.)

Reviewing Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009

Collection of articles and reports in partly German and English language – divided in four categories: Personal Festival Reports – with contributions from: Fernando Fonseca (PublicSpaces Lab Barcelona), David Domingo (netaudio.es), Marco Donnarumma (University of Edinburgh), and Vinilette (Femelek Festival Barcelona); Ideas around netaudio – with contributions from: Raimund Reintjes (Netaudio Berlin), Bastian Thüne (De:Bug), Andi Studer & Matt Spendlove (Netaudio London), Magali Rossi (LibreCommeLair Montpellier), Jenz Steiner (Blogger and netaudio artist from Berlin) and Konrad Behr (notheen, phonocake, DIY 2.0-Festival Dresden). Academic Articles come from: Patryk Galuszka (Università Di Bologna) and Antina Michels (Netaudio Berlin). Interview Podcasts by netwaves (Podcasting Crew from Leuve).

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Jasper Nijsmans

Some Rights Reserved:
Creative Commons in de Belgische muzieksector

After just seven years, Creative Commons is known and used all over the world. The Belgian music scene also has some examples of the adoption of Creative Commons. This paper intends to take a look at the past and present of copyright issues in music, including the birth and development of Creative Commons, with a strong focus on the Belgian musical scene. By linking the history of copyright in music to the case of the Belgian music and netaudio scene through research and interviews, a clear look on the present is intended to be given and some possibilities for the future are uncovered. The paper is Jasper Nijsmans’ dissertation and written in Dutch.

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Your text doesn’t have to necessarily be about the festival directly, you can also compile your thoughts about sub-themes around netaudio or free music, that are important to you and that can be interesting to others as well.

We hope that you can still remember and if possible can write them down in English. Just let Antina (antina (at) netaudioberlin.de) know if you want to contribute, but maybe do not feel so confident with your English as we are sure, we can find a solution (with small messages or an interview if that is all you can put forward).

Drafts should be ready by the end of June 2010.

Now actually, we are working on the publication.

You can read the draft of the table of contents already and you will find the texts shortly under www.netaudioberlin.de/publications

Live and with love,

The Netaudio Berlin Team

Netaudio London will host a conference about

‘The future of music’

at the upcoming Future Everything Festival, this week in Manchester. On 13 May, our London partners present their latest research into current user behaviour and evaluate what is coming next in the field of music facilitated by digital media.

The panel, set up by Netaudio London, consisting of leading practitioners, academics and industry professionals with web, music and public funding backgrounds are presented to comment on the research findings and share their own personal experience on how they use the Internet for making and enjoying music.

Alex McLean, producer of the London nodes of Le Placard and Dorkbot will share his wide ranging experience with technology enabled practitioners and personal insights as a Live Coding artist and computational technology researcher.

John Matthias will reflect on his recent success with the New Music Award winning Fragmented Orchestra project and present current research from the Computer Music Research Centre in Plymouth.

Rachel Baker will comment on how recent developments are reflected by the the Arts Council Digital Opportunity Programme and share her long-standing experience as successful media art practitioner.

Thorsten Sideboard brings first hand insight into all aspects of digital music distribution through his job managing the extensive Last.fm catalog and his experience running the revered Highpoint Lowlife record label.

The panel takes place as part of the FutureEverything conference in Manchester on 13 May 2010, 4pm. It is hosted by Matt Spendlove and Andi Studer of Netaudio London with an introduction given by David Rogerson of Sound and Music. Produced by Cenatus CIC in partnership with Sound and Music, funded by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.

Find out more by following the highlighted links – and most important: join’m there! Prompt start at 4 pm.

The Netaudio crew

+ a flat share of 40% of all licensing-money coming in goes directly to the artists and labels ? we have no sympathy for intransparent or disproportionate allocation-keys.

+ Supporting PRIMA.fm is fully compatible with the use of Creative Commons licenses. You only transfer the non-exclusive music-rights for the use for commercial purposes to PRIMA.fm. Therefore, you can still license your music to third parties or give it away for free for non-commercial purposes (i.e. CC BY/NC/ND).

+ Besides an opportunity to earn money with music, PRIMA.fm also offers musicians and labels a chance to promote and spread their music throughout the world within non-web contexts.

You might follow the link to www.prima.fm to obtain more information on how to create your own account at PRIMA.fm and to upload your music.

PRIMA Information
info@prima.fm
www.prima.fm

PRIMA.fm - Play it smart.

Dabei sind (DnB)Tonmischer, seines Zeichens Resident der Berliner DrumFlakes Parties mit Drum’n'Bass sowie Janoshi, Mitorganisatorin der Audio Massive Veranstaltungen. Sie blickt auf einen langen Weg vom Drum’n'Bass zum Dubstep – und ist trotzdem nicht gefeit, ihr Herz an das Berliner Netlabel  Crazy Language zu verlieren. Den Liveact des Abends liefert Dubstep-Master Pisu vom Musica Vermella Netlabel aus Barcelona. Im Anschluss folgt gegen 04 Uhr Kid Atari vom Stealth Departement mit einer härteren Mischung aus Dubstep & Drum’n'Bass – mit sicherlich so manchem Ausflug in benachbarte Gefilde. Den Abschluss macht Flowpro, seines Zeichens Mastermind des Pionier-Netlabels Plainaudio.

Für die Veranstaltungen haben wir  5 Freitickets: Wer vorbeikommen will, schickt eine Mail an netaudio@raw-tempel.de mit einem selbstgewähltem Nickname und dem Veranstaltungsnamen. Ihr erfahrt dann, ob ihr kostenlos dabei sein könnt…

EEG pres. Netaudio Broken Beats

Im September 2009 veranstaltete die Essential Existence Gallery @ Westwerk, kurz EEG, die erste Netaudio Nacht in Leipzig. Auf einer Podiumsdiskussion wurde das Thema Creative Commons von drei Referenten behandelt, die Vor- und Nachteile erläutert, diskutiert und ein Blick in die Zukunft gewagt. Danach stellten diverse Künstler ihr musikalisches Repertoire aus verschiedenen musikalischen Bereichen der Netlabels auf 2 Floors vor.

Am 27. März ist nun wieder Westpaket in Plagwitz und die EEG nimmt dies und die erfolgreiche erste Ausgabe der Netaudio Nacht zum Anlass, um die Reihe fortzusetzen. Die zweite Ausgabe wird komplett den Broken Beats gewidmet und dazu wurden Künstler aus Berlin, Rostock, Chemnitz und Leipzig verpflichtet. Die Chemnitzer lax-o-mat konnten bereits bei der ersten Ausgabe mit einem fullminanten Live-Act in Bademänteln überzeugen und sind somit auch gleich wieder mit von der Partie. Ihr Sound kann man als experimentelle Broken Beats zwischen Dubstep, Techno, Industrial und Drum & Bass beschreiben. Die BPM-Zahl ist für sie marginal, es kommt ihnen auf die Sounds an, welche sie bereits auf dem Leipziger Netlabel Moods Plateau veröffentlicht haben.

Der Rostocker micronaut ist nicht nur unter dem Pseudonym Sterngucker als DnB-DJ aktiv, sondern schraubt eben auch experimentelle Live-Acts, die neben den abstrakten Beats von viel Flächen aber auch von viel Knarz leben. Seine Tracks veröffentlicht er auf dem Netlabel No Response.

Flowpro aus Berlin repräsentiert das Netlabel Plainaudio, auf dem so namhafte Künstler, wie Martsman oder Macc vornehmlich DnB der Spielart Drumfunk veröffentlichen. Als DJ hat er schon mit den namhaftesten Künstlern der DnB-Szene und in zig Clubs aufgelegt. An Erfahrung mangelt es ihm jedenfalls nicht.

Die beiden Leipziger Wintermute und audite runden den Abend musikalisch ab. Wintermute veröffentlicht seine Tracks auf dem Netlabel digitalGEWITTER und hat damit 2009 nicht nur Leipzig, sondern die ganze DnB- und Dubstepszene bereichert. audite, Boundless Beatz Aktivist und Mitveranstalter der Netaudio-Nächte, lässt es sich diesmal nicht nehmen sein eigenes Repertoire aus diversen DnB und Dubstep Netlabels vorzustellen.

Die DJs werden von zwei VJs unterstützt, die mit audioreaktiven Live-Visuals die Gäste zusätzlich in ihren Bann ziehen werden.
Da das Thema ja Netaudio ist, wird der komplette Abend natürlich vom lokalen Internetradio www.mottt.fm ins World Wide Web übertragen.

LINEUP:
lax-o-mat LIVE! (Moods Plateau, Chemnitz)
micronaut LIVE! (No Response / Free Sample, Rostock)
Flowpro (Plainaudio / Juju, Berlin)
Wintermute (digitalGEWITTER, Leipzig)
audite (Boundless Beatz, Leipzig)

Audioreaktive Live Visuals by:
Marcus Nebe (Leipzig)
Johannes Timpernagel (Halle)

Beginn: 22 Uhr

Unkostenbeitrag: 5?

Ort: Westwerk (EEG)
Karl-Heine-Str. 93 / Tor B
Leipzig

Links:
http://www.eexistence.de
http://www.lax-o-mat.de
http://www.myspace.com/themicronaut
http://www.myspace.com/djflowpro
http://www.myspace.com/wintermutednb
http://www.myspace.com/artistaudite
http://moodsplateau.net
http://www.plainaudio.com
http://www.digitalgewitter.de
http://www.timpernagel.com
http://www.mottt.fm

Hi Folks,

the Barcelona-Berlin netlabel música vermella has announced three days of condensed netlabel activity @ Rauchhaus – a former squat and now alternative housing project in Berlin Kreuzberg. On Thursday 11-02 at 19h there will be a Dubstep Masterclass, Friday 20-02 a circuit bending workshop (same time).

On Saturday a netlabel meeting is announced to connect the Berlin netlabels, to discuss strategies of common promotion, the setup of a new event series (after the first and very successful netlag party circus…) and think about future forms of co-operation. Netaudio Berlin will be attending and not only support this event but also introduce some further netaudio persectives for 2010.

From 23h there’s a Electro / Dubstep / IDM party organised with a decent linup:

Raza Roja live [audio-visual project/ Barcelona]
Yarkovy live [abstract Dub/ France]
Madame live [IDM/ Breakcore/ Barcelona]
Pisu live [Dubstep/ Berlin & Barcelona]
Wermonster live [Psydub/ Berlin]
4 Cantons [IDM/ abstract HIP HOP/ Berlin & Barcelona]

For further infos check the flyer!

Excellent start for the netaudio movement in 2010! After the announcement of the Netaudio Festival in Lisbon end of the year another European country launnched its platform: netaudio.fr is now supporting the netaudio affairs in France! After Netaudio London and Netaudio Berlin, the Spanish netaudio.es, nettare in Italy, Netaudio Russia resp. Moscow and Netaudio Poland two more initiatives will now extend the European network of netaudio groups.

Netaudio France is initially driven by the country’s most active netlabel Fresh Poulp Records. Geoffrey Marchand, labelhead and event organizor gave the initial impulses for the new forum. His label has been focussing on Dub, Oriental Grooves, Hiphop, Dubstep, Downbeat and Fusion sounds. Amongst their artists are names like Normaa, Roots Ista Posse, I-Massive, Rafiralfiro, Dubosmium and many more excellent musicians.

Until now, three more acteurs joined the platform: Al Dente Rec., a techno and minimal (and a little dub influenced) label promoting artists like Eggbox, Tsunami Wazahari, Focus, Funkatone, Blair’Baxter and more.

AntiBlues is concentrating on HipHop, Ambient and Electro, featuring artists like Volfoniq, Aide auditive, Altf4, Autoctone, Vernon Lenoir and others. Finally, netaudio.fr today announces their fourth partner joining the platform: Original Dub Gathering, a French netlabel strictly dedicated to Dub! Releases from Ondubground, Vlastur, U Stone, Dawa HiFi, Panda Dub and more.

Hopefully, more French netlabels will join this promising network to even increase the dynamic development of the free music scene in France. Doubtless it has loads of excellent tunes to spread – so give netaudio.fr a try!

well – posting these words on a rainy late morning, just a couple of hours ahead of the Netaudio Festival. Maybe some of you can imagine what a festival like this does to the people who are organizing it. Every kind of experience in life is pressed into one year of preparation, every mood, every feeling. It all started with the successful request to the Hauptstadtkulturfonds?

The experiences of 2007, when we did the first issue of Netaudio Berlin Festival, left no other option than do some serious fundraising in the forefield of a follow-up. Two years ago the festival worked out only because the artists abandoned the idea of any payment ? often even paying for travel costs and organizing accommodation by themselves. We squatted a devastated building on a former railway construction site in order to have enough space for three different floors ? but we did not pay enough attention on organising a diversified musical programme to justify these three floors. We simply wanted to include everyone who asked to participate. In 2007 we were deeply involved in the electronic music scene in Berlin ? and also in the field of netaudio ? as an outcome of the netlag party series at RAW.tempel. Therefore 90% of the music programme was techno, minimal and techhouse. And beside the fact, that we had to bring literally everything into the squatted premises ? from electricity, toilets, bar, equipment – to all items related to light and sound (not to forget the audience?) we soon got in to trouble. One of our soundsystems collapsed just when we wanted to start the Saturday night. We had to organize a new PA, ringing our supplier in the middle of the night ? without any idea where the extra-money would come from. Artists were disorientated about when or if they were playing and some VJs left the scene with the idea that there would be no more programme on that floor. In the end, all of us were paying more money than we could personally afford. But we also had so much excitement about all the other things which had worked: the highly recognized day programme with workshops, lectures and discussions, the internet stream with more than 1.300 request from 28 different countries, the stuffed-to-intimate Friday night with so many old and new friends, two floors full of excellent musicians on the Saturday, with invitations to radio shows and a wonderful atmosphere at the Sunday brunch ? as well as a excessive after hour with horrible pictures and mistakes last committed at the age of 17? We simply had to do it again?

So – after we celebrated the positive answer from the Hauptstadtkulturfond we experienced the past beautiful months of dreams, ideas and enthusiastic planning. New faces were showing up with fresh input and diversity of styles, with manpower and creativity. A promising spirit knocked on the door from our partnership with netaudio London ? who we are playing netaudio ping pong with (their excellent game also presented on the festival daytime programme on Saturday) and who we hand over the responsibility of organising the festival to on alternate years. We were invited to Bologna to join ?nettare? ? the first Italian Netaudio Festival ? and even to Moscow who referred to the Netaudio Berlin Festival when announcing their activities of bringing some netaudio artists on stage.

After we closed the Call for Entries in June we faced the first serious challenges: How to say ?no? to so many brilliant and beautiful projects? To netaudio enthusiasts and top-level musicians? Suddenly the clouds began to cover our sunny dreams while feeling all the disappointment, the sad and short replies or the cold silence of non-communication?

On the other side the first shapes of a programme appeared with an incredible follow-up of so many artists we have always wanted to invite. Amongst them some big names ? and also some artists who had never before been given the chance to play at such an event ? because their sound and music was not meant for the dancefloor ? or they simply live somewhere in the wilderness where once a week a fourwheeler is delivering the post… So we packed as many artists in our schedule, extended the night programme of the festival to a third day and the day programme to a second. But with this load of artists ? even more than most of the ?big? commercial festivals ? we imported a brutal task of dealing with all the needs of the artists ? and all the different ideas of how communication should be done. We saw the need to set up a temporary office ? but finding cheap office space in Berlin is like discovering Aladin?s magic lamp in your living room? When we finally got a suitable space there was the constant lottery of a stable internet connection and other difficult circumstances? Two members had to find a new flat during the summer, while one of us was delivered the joyous news of becoming a father ? with all these personal circumstances in the forefield it seemed like such a major change in life. Three of us lost their regular jobs, while one of our members spent some nights in prison. We had excesses at friend?s festivals, tears of joy, sadness and confusion. Last but not least we?ve been facing unknown dimensions of challenges to deal with in the form of German embassies abroad, in order to solve the visa issues for our non-EU artists. In fact even hours before the festival start there are still some visas missing ? and with the refusal of Dubosmium’s visa from German embassy in Morocco a sad shadow was already thrown over our effords…

Beside all this: Especially in the last weeks and days we really have had so much positive feedback and enthusiastic announcements from fans, artists and also the media. All of us are really trying to do everything necessary to prepare the festival as well as we can. So we hope you can enjoy these Netaudio days and nights, add some remarks to the discussions and take some new ideas back home. We hope you find new friends and get inspiration for whatever you are into. Within the idea of creative commons, creativity is something to share ? but also common activities and common sense are the assumption for creativity. If you feel inspired by anything ? just let the person(s) know! If you have suggestions for further development ? just bring them into discussions! If you need hints or help or external advice on any aspect related to Netaudio ? you should be aware of all the humans around you, open minded and free thinking ? maybe just waiting for someone like you? With your help and interaction we can continue doing things like this?

Live and with love.

Netaudio Berlin Crew

for those of you who can’t wait for the Festival, for those of you who haven’t decided yet and need some help for the decision making process AND for those of you who lost some teardrops already because they cannot participate: we have thrown together some decent tunes from quite a bunch of our artists. So in fact we would like to draw your attention on the following samplers full with creative commons tunes! Click cover at the end of the page to download .zip-file!

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 X-Compilation by netaudioberlin

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 E-Compilation by netaudioberlin

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 X-Compilation

01: Iambic – These Lights
02: Dubosmium – Treeeternity
03: Gosprom – Lazy
04: Niteffect – Naked Swords
05: Rafiralfiro – Istanbul Engloutie (Rafiralfiro Trio Version)
06: Normaa – The Void Night
07: 6.R.M.E – Desoriental
08: D’incise – Connerie De Mythes Part1
09: Strad – Lust
10: Ne:o – Parte
11: Spatial – 80723
12: Zengineers – Passage To India
13: Jimmy Behan – Box Of Broken Things

Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009 E-Compilation

01: Scaff – Dubbun
02: Raganova – Myth & music
03: Pheek – Arc Tella Mahonara
04: Audio Dependent – Painted Bricks
05: Juno6 – Uretic Urgent
06: Das Blaue Monster – Kümmern
07: Apoll – Precious Sweet Friday
08: Marko Fürstenberg – Offener Tisch
09: Peak – A train to roots (2.20pm)
10: Dubatech aka Cold Form – Windless Dub (Havantepe’s Breeze)