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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Todays Bands Use Tech To Their Advantage

We have come a long way from those days when we used to look forward to our favorite bands LP album covers. Remember how there were two sides to the album filled with song tracks and yet only a few were worth listening to? And eventually there would always be those darn scratches that appeared and added there own mix to the songs no matter how carefully you handled the records. Some of us were fortunate enough to see our favorite bands perform live on stage. That was about as much involvement we had back then.

"After having a go with a Name-Your-Price album and an open-source video,
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070930/214524.shtml
http://ostatic.com/blog/radiohead-open-sources-a-music-video
Radiohead is again breaking new ground, this time with a fan-based initiative. A group of fans went to one of the band's shows in Prague, each shooting the show from a different angle. By editing it all together and adding audio from the original masters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/01/radiohead-fan-made-live-film
 provided by the band, they have created a video of the show that is 'Strictly not for sale — By the fans for the fans,' adding, 'Please share and enjoy.'
http://radiohead-prague.nataly.fr/Main.html
Can this be the future of live show videos?"

The music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/17/opensource.google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQoTGdQywY

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