Re: [microsound] State of Music

[guiver ben <benreviug@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello all,

er another post: i'm doing a sound installation for my
art exhibition in january in london. i need to find
out how formal the copyright thing is if i use, say,
an autechre track in the sound installation (which
would obviously be credited). 

whats the copyright position? do i need to get some
kind of special licence? or what? people play records
in clubs and no-one gets busted-well i never did in a
multitude of places that i'm pretty certain didn't pay
$ to the Performing Rights Commision (uk). 

anyway: i'd be grateful ofr any help and advice. 

best

ben guiver 

ps: if anyone would like to come to the exhibition, or
wants more info, email me and i'll send you a poster,
press release. 
--- Julian Knowles <julianknowles@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, November 25, 2004, at 05:20  AM, Peter
> Price wrote:
> 
> > listen to a pop song from a thousand years ago
> 
> Via what means? A time tunnel? All we have are
> modern interpretations 
> of incomplete sources.... most of the notated
> material is sacred music 
> (as the church had the means to production), very
> few 'hard facts' 
> exist of the secular repertoire to which I assume
> you are alluding 
> (jongleurs, troubadors etc...). There is enough
> disagreement about what 
> actually went on in this music to feed an entire
> academic community... 
> For a start, durational notation didn't come in
> until much later... so 
> how are you proposing we interpret the rhythmic
> aspects of the work? 
> Are you a 'rhythmic modes' subscriber? What metrical
> structure do you 
> propose? The recordings you hear are interpretations
> which a fair 
> amount of guesswork. Educated guessing is part and
> parcel of the early 
> music scholar's work...
> 
> >  and what do you hear...a melody using a seven
> note scale organized 
> > around a central pitch unfolding rhythmically in a
> regular pulse (from 
> > the tempo of a slow walk to that of a fast
> heartbeat) in a duble or 
> > triple meter...likely moving through on average 3
> harmonic areas (i.e 
> > chords)
> 
> this is conjecture (see above), but I think you are
> a rhythmic modes 
> person!!!
> 
> > listen today...same thing
> 
> to what? Again, this is so loose I can't get a hold
> of what you are 
> saying....
> 
> Mainstream chart music? Prog rock, microsound?
> breakcore? minimal 
> techno?
> 
> > that scale...not even imagine you were an alien
> from another planet 
> > scale...simple musically literate scale.
> 
> tell that to nasenbluten
> 
> > Consider the biggest chart topper of the middle
> ages "L'omme 
> > arme"...no one would bat an eye if Bjork sang that
> song.
> 
> At least this example has a manuscript!
> 
> 'bjork-ised', or according to the best knowledge of
> the performance 
> practice of the renaissance - not middle ages -  (in
> a church service)? 
> Or are you suggesting that production and
> performance practice are 
> 'superficial' stylistic details and the production
> process and 
> performance would have no bearing on how it was
> received?
> 
> > Have we lost the ability to think past superficial
> style?
> 
> this makes no sense to me.... It might be the
> brevity of your posts, 
> but your argument feels like a serious of
> unqualified sweeping 
> statements which pass over a lot of the critical
> detail.. I think its a 
> lot more complicated than you are trying to suggest.
> 
> 
> 
>
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