[cc-community] Strayform - where artists and fans connect tofund and distribute new creative works
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Sat May 19 22:38:53 EDT 2007
On Saturday 19 May 2007 09:52 pm, Christopher Budnick wrote:
> > Thank you so much for the info. Do you know if they have any funding
> > ideas / experiments going on? I would be happy to throw ideas around
> > along those lines.
>
> Essentially the way we're handling it now is with allowing the bands
> to handle a lot of the monetizing themselves. We release the music
> ourselves through multitude venues (local stores which play the music
> and give away or sell CDs, priority radio time set aside for free
> music by college stations, distributed through our website and on
> other review sites) and promote and hold shows for the bands under our
> label. We have a small amount of seed money from successful shows
> we've had and initial funding that I and a few others have provided.
> With that we're pressing limited runs of vinyl and cd-rs to give to
> the band for free. in turn, the band sells them at their shows and on
> their website and keeps all of the money from any sales with no
> obligation to pay us back. If they'd like more materials, we're happy
> to order them, and this is just the first sort of experiment in how to
> fund the creation of free music.
>
> The studio time is donated to us by college radio stations (they
> obviously have a vested interest, both in charter and
> self-preservation, in 'funding' free content) and the production is
> taken care of by the recording artist, a tech at the station, or an
> independent producer/company that has donated us time.
>
> We've been able to involve /a lot/ of larger named bands, partially as
> we're curating music to be distributed with the first shipments of
> OLPCs as part of their free content packages.
Thank you for this information. I will give it further thought.
>
> best
> Christopher (typically a lurker)
all the best,
drew
--
(da idea man)
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