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Radiohead Open Sources Music Video
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.
JUST IMAGINE WHAT THIS MEANS!
Not country and western enough... fork!
Copyright issues on logos... fork!
Can't resize video screen... FORK!
Though I think in the music business they call them re-mixes / mashups.
3 Radiohead, they're like the anti-Metallica :)
Exactly. I can't stand country music, but for whatever reason some people continue to listen to it. I don't understand why they don't consult with me first so I can tell them what music is good and what's bad.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
They're just jealous because their videos aren't as good as those done by amateurs.
Constructive criticism FTW.
Found this:
"The CSV data files are released as follows:
* Copyright 2008 Radiohead.
* Some Rights Reserved: Data used to produce the House of Cards music video
* is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License"
Not open Source folks... at least not like the open source according to the OSD.
all the best,
drew
FreeMusicPush If you want to see more Free Music made, listen to Free
True right! It was only their first album that was any good. That one with Wonderwall on it!
http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
The video + making of + data explorer. Note, it can take a while for the data explorer to finish loading the video, but it's pretty fun to play with.
...between now and ten years ago.
Check out:
Kid A
Amnesiac
Hail to the Thief
In Rainbows
they're all excellent.
I suppose the double capitalisation in the first sentence balances the lack of initial caps in the second.
While I do agree that some bands, such as Nine Inch Nails, are more genuine in their efforts, that doesn't mean you should discount Radiohead. They are not "aging rockers", in the sense that they're not relevant anymore; they have a huge in-built fan base that would buy their records even if they come out on 8-track. It's a bit of a publicity stunt, but it's more progressive than what most major-label bands are doing.
I have one more pointer to add - MORE COWBELL!!
It's not like they have some purely altruistic, over-arching mission statement that forbids them to have any kind of publicity, do they? First and foremost, they want to make and sell music. Unlike many other artists, they also happen to express strong views on politics and economics, but those expressions wouldn't matter much without any amount of publicity. The way they distributed and marketed "In Rainbows" was INTENDED as a strong statement (a publicity stunt, if you will) on the business model of the big labels, a proof that success in this business is possible without them. Even if they don't repeat this exact method of distribution with their next album(s), I'd be truly shocked to learn that they want to rebuild the bridge they have nuked in word and deed.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
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.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
I was 15. And back then they called it the Spice Channel...
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.
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.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
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Wow!!
And how did you manage to type that?
When I type the same, it keeps showing as < . You seem to be always a step ahead. You are something, man.
Try starting with bluegrass. Any real music lover can appreciate the virtuosity and songcraft of Bill Monroe. Then broaden your horizons a bit, try some Jimmie Rodgers or Doc Watson. There's definitely good country, they just don't play it on the radio.
I think Waylon Jennings said "Garth Brooks did for country music what panty hose did for finger fucking."
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Unlike the Radiohead music our music is released via creative commons. Free even for commercial uses. http://www.politicsapocalypse.com/ I agree this is a cool thing to do but Radiohead charge people to download the sources to remix their album, they have said that the preferred way of listening is to buy the CD - not the mp3s, etc etc... Check out bands such as Nine Inch Nails to see a way of making $ while being nice to the fans.
It's a clear case of using open source as a buzz word to get publicity, and /. has fallen nicely for it.
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So let me get this straight: Radiohead sells 1 million albums and each member gets what? 200k? (How many members are there again?) 200k for a platinum-selling album? And assuming people were only paying $16 a CD the label grosses $15 million from that same album? Great Jebus that is lopsided. And here I thought indentured servitude had gone out of style.