Category Archives: DJ Community

Ogg Vorbis = Community

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MusicBrainz’ Robert Kaye is mouthing off again. (And making sense, as usual.)
The bottom line is that Ogg Vorbis is the only format we can really trust to be patent and royalty-free.

What exactly can we expect from an open platform? Does that mean that they will offer Ogg/Vorbis downloads? Ogg/Vorbis is just about the only truly free codec that is available — everything else is encumbered by patents or other crazy royalty schemes.
Even classic MP3 doesn’t fit this anymore since FHG/Thomson have started collecting royalties. So, Echo, if you are listening, please make your content available in Ogg/Vorbis format! I can’t think of a better way to get geeks to buy your music.

(Reminds me that I’m pretty lame for not making my music files available as Oggs yet….Tsk. Tsk. Time to look for a good encoder for OSX. Any suggestions?)

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Robert Kaye On Endless Community Jukebox In The Sky

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Wireless == great jukebox in the sky?

While aggregated wireless music collections won’t provide everything to everyone everywhere, they do have some interesting qualities that are worth exploring.
If the community around you has the music, do you need to download all of the music to your machine? Better get another bigger harddrive, because the community will have more music than you have harddrive space. So, I hope that people will truely start sharing their collections instead of actually copying them as the current file sharing networks do. And if we’re just sharing and not copying does that fall under fair use? (Never mind that fair use has been erradicated in the last few years).

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MP3s Of DJ Spooky’s Talk and Performance At The Creative Commons Launch

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I’ve made MP3 files of DJ Spooky’s preview of his Birth of a Nation Remix (Edited exactly at the beginning and end of the music track that was played along side of his interactive visual presentation so it can be segued accordingly.)
and
The speaking portion of DJ Spooky’s presentation (This is slightly incomplete in that I don’t have him saying ‘thank you’ and making a few comments that he made at the end of the visual part of the presentation.)

DJ Spooky At The Creative Commons Launch

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Here is DJ Spooky’s presentation at the Creative Commons Launch last Monday night.
I know these are big files guys, but I’ll be posting some lower-quality versions a little later today. (These are up now on my index at: http://www.lisarein.com/videoindex.html#spooky.)
(DV experts — please email me directly at lisarein@finetuning.com with suggestions about how to compress these files smaller — I’m committed to perfecting my technique for this stuff!)
I’ll be releasing an MP3 of the music too (from the Birth of a Nation Remix). — And yes, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) gave me his permission to redistribute all of this stuff into the public domain, so no worries there!
So remember – don’t try to play these in your browser — right click (pd) or click and hold (mac) to download these files to your hard drive and play them from there.


First part of DJ Spooky’s Presentation
Second part of DJ Spooky’s Presentation
Birth of a Nation Remix w/ DJ Spooky talk afterwards

DJ Spooky Holding Up The “AdBusters” Flag

Analysis of RAVE by Drug Policy Alliance

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Update June 24, 2003. The RAVE Act passed earlier this year when it was attached to the AMBER alert bill. Here’s an explanation about how the bill passed and what’s taken place as a result since then from the Drug Policy Alliance.
Here’s a summary
and further analysis of the RAVE Bill by the Drug Policy Alliance.
Yikes! It’s even worse than I thought!
The language of this RAVE Bill would make any citizen throwing a party liable for any drug use an ambiguously-defined general vacinity. We’re talking jail time here for someone else’s illegal activity that you had no knowledge of whatsoever.
It basically puts RAVEs under the juristiction of crack houses. As if, by definition, they were places used for the sale and manufacture of drugs.
Just the fact that “chill rooms” are cause for suspicion at a dancing venue is quite disturbing. What’s suspicious about getting hot and wanting to sit down and “chill” for a while after dancing to some great music. Dancing is a healthy activity that should be encouraged, not persecuted.

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Text of RAVE Bill

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Here’s the full text of the Bill for S 2633, as painfully obtained eventually from Thomas.loc.gov.
This bill is so totally confused about RAVE culture and what it represents, I won’t even try to defend it here. RAVE culture is the newest of the music communities and so, easier to pick on. But don’t be fooled. Any music community could be next — this law could be used to disrupt any music event, not just RAVEs.

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Right to Peaceably Assemble Jeopardized by RAVE Bill

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You’ve heard me rant before about the Right to Peaceably Assemble and this importance of this right in any kind of free society.
Well, that right is coming under attack again. This time in the name of the war on drugs. Take a look at: S 2633 the “Reducing America’s Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002”.
There are some petitions (C.A.R.A. – Citizens Against the R.A.V.E. Act and A.A.R.A. – Americans Against the R.A.V.E. Act) and there will be a huge nation-wide demonstration (NY, LA, DC) on demonstrations on September 6, 2002.

The R.A.V.E. Act was introduced in the Senate on June 18th and passed the Senate Judiciary Committee a week later, without a public hearing or recorded vote. It has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar and could come up for a full Senate vote in September. A number of organizations including civil liberties groups, business associations, and groups associated with the rave community, are working to defeat the RAVE Act or amend it to better protect innocent business owners, free speech, and public health. Tens of thousands of voters have signed petitions, and faxed or called their Senators to oppose this Act. Protests in opposition to the RAVE Act will be held simultaneously in cities around the country, including a rave and protest on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on September 6th.

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