The Totnes town council have requested that we hold off giving the local library copies of the recording until we have dealt with issues of
will the public be free to borrow these CD's?
there is a concern about the copyright
A local paper ran an article in which a councillor expressed worries that Soundart Radio would produce and sell CDs (good, lord, at a loss as who would want them?!?!?) and there seems to be a issue with the idea of there being a 'publicly available record', which is what the minutes should be anyway, and personal accountability, which is interesting form the point of public meetings and public speaking....so more meetings there for the sake of protocol.... and just to make sure we all agree on common sense :-)
Copyright, plagiarism and creative commons are all part of my investigation. the vulnerability i feel when publishing this blog can be seen as a result of this- I say I value transparency, but fear misrepresentation, I yearn for expression, but fret about being judged.... I have adjusted the settings to this blog so that it does not appear on search engines, (at one point, if you entered,"art is not a mirror its a fucking hammer" on google, i was the top 10 of the hit list ;-) and added a 'adult content' disclaimer before any readers could view it- these steps gave me a little more confidence. I saw that one reason i am attracted to radio is the (optional) unaccountability of producers- listeners do not need to know a producers' name, whereabouts, qualifications, family history etc and cannot interrupt or shout down the work- though of course if it is not to their liking, they are fully able to turn off or tune out. Broadcasting in Totnes has been very challenging- it has made me more aware of my ties to propriety, responsibility, my own ideologies, and how i wish to work- in what capacities, in what mode and where- . And for whom- I do not doubt that my work (audio outreach specifically) is not to every ones taste- but hope that it is enjoyed somewhere.
This is interesting to me - it seems the other side of individual arts practices is community activity- they are kind of indivisible- there is a responsibility for arts to be public, and to engage on a street level as well as a theoretical or conceptual level... if you wish to produce work 'for everyone' work that is public, approachable, open, anti-exclusive, is there a cut off point which art/radio should not pass, or should a producer honour there muse and make work that is not necessarily for everyones' taste?? what is the responsibility of the listener in this equation? ie,"I just listened to the whole of Kenny Rodgers' back catalogue and now feel sick, depressed and like committing a violence upon my teddy bear." Maybe you should have turned off when you first became discomforted? Kenny can't be blamed- he is just doing his thing, and as Bob says- "you can't please all the people all the time".
Outside of the academic environment criticism is often given unconstructively -squinteyes across a full room/a sneer/ a flippant comment made to insult - thrown to disarm, to hurt, but there lies my own chance to choose how to process it- maybe what challenges has the greatest worth. I am not given to agitation, but not prepared to shut up either. :-)
will the public be free to borrow these CD's?
there is a concern about the copyright
A local paper ran an article in which a councillor expressed worries that Soundart Radio would produce and sell CDs (good, lord, at a loss as who would want them?!?!?) and there seems to be a issue with the idea of there being a 'publicly available record', which is what the minutes should be anyway, and personal accountability, which is interesting form the point of public meetings and public speaking....so more meetings there for the sake of protocol.... and just to make sure we all agree on common sense :-)
Copyright, plagiarism and creative commons are all part of my investigation. the vulnerability i feel when publishing this blog can be seen as a result of this- I say I value transparency, but fear misrepresentation, I yearn for expression, but fret about being judged.... I have adjusted the settings to this blog so that it does not appear on search engines, (at one point, if you entered,"art is not a mirror its a fucking hammer" on google, i was the top 10 of the hit list ;-) and added a 'adult content' disclaimer before any readers could view it- these steps gave me a little more confidence. I saw that one reason i am attracted to radio is the (optional) unaccountability of producers- listeners do not need to know a producers' name, whereabouts, qualifications, family history etc and cannot interrupt or shout down the work- though of course if it is not to their liking, they are fully able to turn off or tune out. Broadcasting in Totnes has been very challenging- it has made me more aware of my ties to propriety, responsibility, my own ideologies, and how i wish to work- in what capacities, in what mode and where- . And for whom- I do not doubt that my work (audio outreach specifically) is not to every ones taste- but hope that it is enjoyed somewhere.
This is interesting to me - it seems the other side of individual arts practices is community activity- they are kind of indivisible- there is a responsibility for arts to be public, and to engage on a street level as well as a theoretical or conceptual level... if you wish to produce work 'for everyone' work that is public, approachable, open, anti-exclusive, is there a cut off point which art/radio should not pass, or should a producer honour there muse and make work that is not necessarily for everyones' taste?? what is the responsibility of the listener in this equation? ie,"I just listened to the whole of Kenny Rodgers' back catalogue and now feel sick, depressed and like committing a violence upon my teddy bear." Maybe you should have turned off when you first became discomforted? Kenny can't be blamed- he is just doing his thing, and as Bob says- "you can't please all the people all the time".
Outside of the academic environment criticism is often given unconstructively -squinteyes across a full room/a sneer/ a flippant comment made to insult - thrown to disarm, to hurt, but there lies my own chance to choose how to process it- maybe what challenges has the greatest worth. I am not given to agitation, but not prepared to shut up either. :-)
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