[cc-community] [Cc-icommons] CC bands exchange Netherlands <-> Japan?

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Tue Nov 7 04:26:45 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:06 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> Ahoy,
> 
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 08:24, Bjorn Wijers wrote:
> > One of the things is adding a feature to Simuze where people can easily
> > contact another artists and invite them for an exchange of music and ideas.
> 
> Remix Commons, and probably ccMixter, have a similar feature.
> 
> 
> > Actually another thing which I find a bit more important right now is to
> > gain a better understanding about touring and the way these are
> > organised. This particular band (We Vs Death) has been doing split EP's
> > with a Belgium French band and when the EP was finished they toured in
> > Belgium and France. They did a split EP with a Danish band and hence
> > another tour was born. So perhaps this feature I was talking about
> > should incorporate this idea of crossing borders and as such should be
> > available for a multitude of platforms (e.g. Jamendo <--> ccMixter <-->
> > Simuze <--> etc). What do you think?
> 
> That's an interesting idea, but I think it might make more sense if we had a 
> separate web site where people could say "we're a band interested in free 
> culture, we're on tour in these countries between these dates so come and see 
> us, and we're open to new dates for free culture gigs, so contact us". 
> Incorporating the idea of joint tours (also for supporting acts that travel, 
> and for supporting acts in each locality) and possibly tying entries in with 
> downloads available elsewhere would also be really nice.
> 
> If this info could then be picked up by Jamendo, ccMixter, Simuze, Remix 
> Commons, FreeCulture.org(.uk) and so on then that would be an added bonus.

Agree...all the pieces are already there to do this, its just a matter
of social protocol and setting up how to do. If you made a site around,
it might just be to provide this social path to achieving this along
with relevant links to current endeavours.

Jon

> What do you think about that?
> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
> 
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