[Pdr] Music for the Public Domain Review

[Jonathan Gray]

This sounds fantastic. Very exciting. Exactly what the PDR should be
doing: curating!

Another things I've wanted to do for ages is 'PDR radio'. I recently
spoke to Ben about this, and he's really up for having a go at this.
2-5 minute podcasts, snappily edited with interview snippets from
experts talking about curious public domain material - with a bit of
boilerplate about the PDR (strapline, URL, jingle, etc). E.g. on the
famous meeting where Shelley was inspired for Frankenstein on an
island when the sky went black for a week, or on early theological
theories about light. Could also interview people about different
audio tracks. E.g. what is special about this track, talking about
circumstances it was recorded in. Help to provide context and flag
what is interesting. Perhaps we can discuss this more in Berlin?

Ultimate challenge would be getting stuff syndicated on radio - e.g.
NPR in US, or local/specialist radio.

J.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> Adam and I had a good conversation yesterday about starting to feature
> collections of public domain music curated by bloggers and Youtube
> enthusiasts.
>
> 1. These would be part of the collection series but branded a bit
> differently so we could properly launch the new addition to the PDR
> 2. Focus would be, as ever, on lesser know genres or strains of music
> 3. Generally speaking we'd use a PDR Sound Cloud channel to make the
> selection available - thus hopefully generating interest from within the
> Sound Cloud community
> 4. We'd aim for a monthly contribution
> 5. Usually collections would be about 10 tracks of reasonable quality on a
> particular theme or form a specific genre - with a paragraph of context and
> maybe even a few sentences on each track. Although we should allow for the
> fact some of the people won't know much about the records
>
> I've started a document of ideas of bloggers to ask:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHlKbS03cURuSklLWUNzTmxxYmhGamc#gid=0
>
> Please add as you see fit!
>
> Sam
>
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