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Hi! A few months ago I started with a friend of mine a musical project that has particular similarities to the philosophy of free software. I would like to tell you about it in this post and I'd love to read your feedback.
With our band John Option[1] we published our first single My monkey some week ago. Of course the song is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA) and it's completely produced only with free software: Ardour, Hydrogen, Jack, Qsynth, CALF, and many other great free audio software that we used under a GNU/Linux system.
But with the project of John Option we have done a little more in the direction of freedom. As for the free software the source code is accessible for the users, we decided to do the same thing for our music. So we published the single recording tracks of the song My monkey and the complete Ardour session. All this material is published in our official website[1] under the CC-BY-SA license so that anyone can use our tracks to produce a remix of our song or even a new song that have to be published under the same license.
I hope that you like our choice of freedom. If you feel like I'd love to read your feedback, because the encouragement of the people who listen to us and appreciate the philosophy of our project is a fuel for us to continue.
Ciao, Max-B
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On 08.06.2014 16:39, Massimo Barbieri wrote:
Hi! A few months ago I started with a friend of mine a musical project that has particular similarities to the philosophy of free software. I would like to tell you about it in this post and I'd love to read your feedback.
With our band John Option[1] we published our first single My monkey some week ago. Of course the song is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA) and it's completely produced only with free software: Ardour, Hydrogen, Jack, Qsynth, CALF, and many other great free audio software that we used under a GNU/Linux system.
But with the project of John Option we have done a little more in the direction of freedom. As for the free software the source code is accessible for the users, we decided to do the same thing for our music. So we published the single recording tracks of the song My monkey and the complete Ardour session. All this material is published in our official website[1] under the CC-BY-SA license so that anyone can use our tracks to produce a remix of our song or even a new song that have to be published under the same license.
I hope that you like our choice of freedom. If you feel like I'd love to read your feedback, because the encouragement of the people who listen to us and appreciate the philosophy of our project is a fuel for us to continue.
Ciao, Max-B
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Hello Massimo, Some years ago I discovered a VOCALOID[1] which is nonfree software, and I started writing a free as in freedom replacement. Then there is UTAU[2] which is nonfree, but I found out that someone else in Japan had written a free software replacement that I had to port to GNU/Linux.
I also compose my own songs using LMMS, Rosegarden, MMA+Linuxband and eCantorix[3] to create singing in a non-Japanese language. I also do workshops at Anime conventions where I introduce people how to use the free programs. I also work on my first con-album which I will sell physically (as a burned CD) at those anime conventions when the work is finished. Free does not have to be gratis.
For LMMS there is a sharing platform where you can upload your songs in source code format. But I had no time to use that platform yet. In the case of my free software virtual singer, I use my private instance of GNU Mediagoblin the publish both the ogg file and the source code. I release the source code of my music under the GPL and/or CC-BY-SA license. However I do not know if the copyleft of the GPL can be applied to music.
Tobias
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau [3] https://github.com/divVerent/ecantorix
Il 08/06/2014 21:10, Tobias Platen ha scritto:
Hello Massimo,
Hi Tobias!
Some years ago I discovered a VOCALOID[1] which is nonfree software, and I started writing a free as in freedom replacement.
Thanks for developing free software!
I also compose my own songs using LMMS, Rosegarden, MMA+Linuxband and eCantorix[3] to create singing in a non-Japanese language. I also do workshops at Anime conventions where I introduce people how to use the
That's cool! Because we have published also the Ardour session of our song some people wrote me that they found it useful in order to understand how to use Ardour and how to apply plugins to the single tracks.
I release the source code of my music under the GPL and/or CC-BY-SA license. However I do not know if the copyleft of the GPL can be applied to music.
I think that the CC-BY-SA is the license that is closer to the principles of the GPL.
Ciao, Massimo
Hi,
Not personally a music producer or that knowledgeable in relation to music formats, but I haven't heard much noise regarding open source formats for it. Sounds like an interesting and worthwhile project.
Good luck!
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On 9 June 2014 14:09, Massimo Barbieri massimo@fsfe.org wrote:
Il 08/06/2014 21:10, Tobias Platen ha scritto:
Hello Massimo,
Hi Tobias!
Some years ago I discovered a VOCALOID[1] which is nonfree software, and I started writing a free as in freedom replacement.
Thanks for developing free software!
I also compose my own songs using LMMS, Rosegarden, MMA+Linuxband and eCantorix[3] to create singing in a non-Japanese language. I also do workshops at Anime conventions where I introduce people how to use the
That's cool! Because we have published also the Ardour session of our song some people wrote me that they found it useful in order to understand how to use Ardour and how to apply plugins to the single tracks.
I release the source code of my music under the GPL and/or CC-BY-SA license. However I do not know if the copyleft of the GPL can be applied to music.
I think that the CC-BY-SA is the license that is closer to the principles of the GPL.
Ciao, Massimo
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On 09.06.2014 15:09, Massimo Barbieri wrote:
Il 08/06/2014 21:10, Tobias Platen ha scritto:
Hello Massimo,
Hi Tobias!
Some years ago I discovered a VOCALOID[1] which is nonfree software, and I started writing a free as in freedom replacement.
Thanks for developing free software!
I also compose my own songs using LMMS, Rosegarden, MMA+Linuxband and eCantorix[3] to create singing in a non-Japanese language. I also do workshops at Anime conventions where I introduce people how to use the
That's cool! Because we have published also the Ardour session of our song some people wrote me that they found it useful in order to understand how to use Ardour and how to apply plugins to the single tracks.
I release the source code of my music under the GPL and/or CC-BY-SA license. However I do not know if the copyleft of the GPL can be applied to music.
I think that the CC-BY-SA is the license that is closer to the principles of the GPL.
Ciao, Massimo
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Hello
The GPL requires you to release the source code, but the CC licences do not afaik. I also found out that the wesnoth sountrack is released under the GPL, so it is possible to use the GPL for music. For sheet music one could use the GFDL which is designed for written works. Selling GFDL'ed sheet music without offering the corresponding lilypond source code might not be permitted.
I also tried to download the music from soundcloud, but soundcloud uses nonfree javascript, so I had to use a shell script which does the download.
Tobias
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Hi!
Il 09/06/2014 19:14, Tobias Platen ha scritto:
The GPL requires you to release the source code, but the CC licences do not afaik. I also found out that the wesnoth sountrack is released under the GPL, so it is possible to use the GPL for music. For sheet music one could use the GFDL which is designed for written works. Selling GFDL'ed sheet music without offering the corresponding lilypond source code might not be permitted.
Requiring the usere to release the source code of derivative works could be an important key point. I will try to collect more information about the use of a GPL like license to my music.
I also tried to download the music from soundcloud, but soundcloud uses nonfree javascript, so I had to use a shell script which does the download.
Thanks for telling me, we will move our tracks to another server very soon.
Ciao, Max-B
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On 06/09/2014 03:09 PM, Massimo Barbieri wrote:
Because we have published also the Ardour session of our song some people wrote me that they found it useful in order to understand how to use Ardour and how to apply plugins to the single tracks.
Really cool thing that you've published your ardour sessions! btw: Have you found a way to share your LADSPA/LV2 presets, so they can easily be re-used on different setups?
Regards, Peter B.