The Maine music scene…is it ready for Creative Commons Licensing?
Music — mGee @ 1:16 pm
An article I wrote, extolling the virtues of Creative Commons licensing has just been published on the Portland Press Herald’s NXT blog. Here’s an excerpt:
Each month when preparing the next compilation for the website I run, I scour the internet for shining examples of music that’s released under a Creative Commons license. I always find plenty of excellent music from all over the world that meets that criteria. Each time I look for these musical gems, I quietly hope that one of the artists I discover will be from my home state of Maine (there’s nothing I’d love to do more than to promote bands from here). Alas, after 18 of these compilations, I’ve yet to find one Maine music artist utilizing this important tool that’s so easily at their disposal.
blocSonic and Nine Inch Nails projects
Music, Video, blocSonic, nvzion — Tags: blocSonic, creative commons, flac, industrial, military, mp3, music video, netbloc, nine inch nails, php, remix, rock, united states — mGee @ 11:34 am
Over the past couple months I’ve been using my spare time to port my site blocSonic.com from Ruby On Rails to PHP in order to help loading time and site stability. I’m still in the process of porting the administrative back-end. Probably another month will be required to complete that. After a short break, I’m resuming the release of monthly collections of free net audio gems. Currently you can find 13 releases at blocSonic.com and 2 more are in the works. They should be released within the next couple weeks.
Besides blocSonic projects, I’ve been keeping myself busy with Nine Inch Nails related creations. First, I’ve been taking part in the Nine Inch Nails “Ghosts Film Festival”. Below is my video ‘EMPIRE’ which features three “Ghosts” tracks. Please go to the youtube page and vote for it. If you’d like to download it in HD quality, you can do so via the vimeo page.
EMPIRE (Featuring music from Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Ghosts I-IV’) from Michael Gregoire on Vimeo.
Secondly, I’ve been participating in NIN’s remix project and produced a remix of their most recent single “Discipline”. You can listen and vote here. If you enjoy it, download it via the links below in your preferred format:
192kbs MP3 format: Nine Inch Nails - Discipline (Borderline Obsessive Compulsive Remix)
320kbs MP3 format: Nine Inch Nails - Discipline (Borderline Obsessive Compulsive Remix)
Lossless FLAC format: Nine Inch Nails - Discipline (Borderline Obsessive Compulsive Remix)