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Radiohead Open Sources Music Video

Posted by kdawson on from the look-ma-no-cameras dept.

ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again pushing forward with trying to innovate in an industry that has typically innovated with lawsuits alone. Radiohead has now decided to open source a music video. According to the article, 'Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license.'" The article links a making-of video on YouTube. 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.

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  1. Big Ideas (don't get any) by pzs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They're just jealous because their videos aren't as good as those done by amateurs.

  2. Oh you must have missed some albums that came out by jaypaulw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...between now and ten years ago.

    Check out:

    Kid A
    Amnesiac
    Hail to the Thief
    In Rainbows

    they're all excellent.

  3. Re:Very innovative by X0563511 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which is funny, because this is only the video parts of it. You can put your own music to this. Take their data, models, etc and go do something completely unrelated with it if you want. It's art, man.

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  4. CASHMusic by rjpierson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check out http://cashmusic.org/ It was founded by Kristin Hersh from the Throwing Muses. It's a pretty good concept for a site where artists can share their work in an open source way.

  5. Re:The moderation is going to hurt on this comment by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this may refer to Radiohead's extreme aversion to doing anything that could be considered remotely "popular."

    For some reason, they were upset by the success of OK Computer, and dove off the edge, into stranger, more experimental territory, where the music has to be more "appreciated" than "enjoyed."

    This is a shame, because they're amazing in their moments of brilliance, and incredibly talented musicians. However, their latest stuff just seems a bit too pretentious to be palatable.

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