Art Trouvé

Here are a few things I've found over the past few days:

CASH music
CASH Music is a Coalition of Artists & Stake-Holders. The idea is that content producers, be they musicians, artists, writers or whatever, can use the site to publish their content under a creative commons license. Kristin Hersh, previously of Throwing Muses fame, is so far their only artist (they started in November, so it's early days yet) & she's released 2 new tracks there under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The idea behind that is that in much the same way as old traditional folk songs used to be copied, changed, re-worded, re-arranged & so on, according to who was playing them & the times they were living in, so people will re-mix, mash up, cover, adapt etc Kristin's work. So far her two tracks have given rise to a couple of dozen derived works. She wants people to be inspired by her work to create poetry, art, more music etc, and to post their derivative works back to CASH music, for other people to do the same with. In this way, we'll get an expanding community of creativity. The site's founder, Donita Sparks (from L7), will be publishing some of her own music there soon. If you're interested, go sign up.

Sarah Myers
...has a blog over at Wordpress, which is all about geek stuff. Just lately she interviewed Steve Wozniak about pranks & civil disobedience. Go read it! She also does a daily Net TV show over at Popsnap.net, which may be worth watching (though I can't cos I'm behind a fscking firewall... grr...) - & which I'll go check out tonight.

Update: Just checked out Popsnap, & it's excellent - very funny, geeky-dorky & cute. It's somewhat different from the blog, which has some quite involved articles. Popsnap kind of reminds me of Soccergirl's podcasts - it seems much more played for laughs.