2 posts tagged “artist insider”

A while back Jars of Clay released an interesting music video through their myspace, youtube, and other places where they had asked the people who attended their concert to video the concert and then send in the video. I posted about it a while back, but if you missed it you can see it here.

Jars of Clay Dead Man Mobile Mash-Up Video

Today I happened to hear on the radio that a band was releasing audio and encouraging people to remix the audio. Well, they teased this and a little later they said it was none other then Jars of Clay.

On the Official Jars of Clay Website they link to another site about a Remix Contest. Where they released multiple tracks of the same song in the video. I have now downloaded it and plan on putting some time, if my muse provides me the inspiration to create something new from these pieces of clay.

This will not be my first time editing audio, since I am podcasting a good bit where we record, edit, master, and release stuff  ... and it will not be the first time I have edited a song. There was a song a while back that I heard that artist talk about what the song ment to her and I did not like how the final CD song was ... so I ripped out some of the loud gutars and that is the version I now listen to.

The one odd thing that strikes me with the Jars page is it does not really tell what licence and all they are giving to people. There is no waver, or anything offered. They do mention that each individual track is copyrighted, which is true, anything that is original and created is copywritten under the current US Copyright Laws, but it just seems interesting. Like with Artist Insider (on vox), the individual podcasts are copywriten, but released to the public and in reality people both share the link and the files.

In the end, I am posting and will be promoting Jars of Clay more because of this then I would if I did not have access. I am more excited that more of the music industry is starting to get that you have to love, appreciate, and build your fanbase.

Michael Geoghegan posted a piece he titled Radio’s Future?. He shares his story of taking a trip to a new city and how he can see the radio industry changing with more people turning to “personal radio stations” my words, not his. 

I have two things that come to mind. One is the current interview at Artist Insider with a radio promoter Jennifer Blair. Jennifer really goes into depth of talking about the current radio world. Today is the first day of free segments, but from what I have heard, the switch to personal media chooses might occur sooner, rather then later.

Second, I look at the Twit.tv network that is larger then most radio stations, with next to nothing in overhead, and has better audio quality then most radio stations. Leo Laporte has basically built what TechTV was in the “good old days”, at least TWiT plus some other podcasts cover most of what they use to do.

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I know myself, I take audio podcasts and load them up on my cell phone, that has a decent speaker on it. While I drive, I will either listen to a radio program I want, or turn on a podcast, or audiobook, or just some music on my cell phone. The only thing I would rather have is a line in jack I could easily plug into and be able to play it over my car’s system. I don’t want Ipod controls. I basically want to be able to plug any CD player or MP3 player into it, and it looks like a headphone jack.

I expect there will always be radio, but it might be satellite radio where I can program it myself and tune to my personal channel.