Today is July 14th!
1789
The French revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille prison (http://ping.fm/ikrT9)
1867
Alfred Nobel demonstrates his new invention, dynamite, for the first time
1965
The American spacecraft Mariner 4 flies past Mars and takes photos of the Red planet.
AND..
July 14, 2008
Enlightenment in the music industry. Tribe of Noise opens their virtual doors (http://ping.fm/iPndt)
In the first year you gave us loads of positive energy, prove that we could start a Tribe together. We met a lot of great creative minds with impressive ideas, heard and rated so many of beautiful songs, talked to industry professionals about how we can add value to you and a new music ecosystem and shook hands with heroes in the online (music) business.
With your enthusiasm, creativity and help we will continue to grow and improve our services. We will organize more live and online events, setup online contests (like http://ping.fm/dmU0k), add cool features to help you connect with other Tribe members and generate as much exposure as possible to help you and your professional career.
Enjoy this great day and Let's make some more Noise!
Kindest regards,
Hessel
Chief of Noise
www.tribeofnoise.com
Tuesday, July 14
Friday, July 3
We need to innovate the music industry NOW!
[Please help us with your expertise]
As you all know the music industry is in the middle of a paradigm shift. Which is very exciting!
The traditional music industry is looking for new revenue models, musicians themselves are becoming business people and all (Internet / mobile) technology out there is used to the max.. right?! uh.. WRONG!
The industry is still making 30 billion dollar a year, not interested hard enough to change. Musicians care about there music and fans more than becoming actively involved in innovating their revenue models. And many creative minds still think that having a profile page online will make them superstars within days.
This is a wake up call! Like any business, we have to innovate, explore new opportunities, adapt to new times and next generations.
With all your knowledge and expertise we can and need to innovate the music industry right here, RIGHT NOW!
I would like to kick off with some of our own ideas, please feel free to edit mine, share yours or write about other music innovations. One thing: this post is all about sharing knowledge and helping each other so comments like 'won't work, bad idea, etc' are only appreciated if you provide a better alternative.
INNOVATE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! [2 Examples]
- Hessel: “We learned big time from the open source community the last 10 years. Use open licensing models to share music and creativity: easy, transparent and legal. When we tell people about our Ready to Share music, we mean Ready to Share! No more scary copyright infringements means that promoting, using and distributing music is fun, powerful and easy again!” [Instead of using DRM or copyright Tribe of Noise uses a 'copyleft', Creative Commons license model]
- Hessel: “We facilitate a platform where musicians can connect directly with each other and industries still spending money (80-100 billion dollar a year) on music like advertisement agencies, game developers and broadcasters. We actively promote musicians but in the end musicians and companies should connect without us telling them to meet.” [Connect musicians with companies and facilitate the technology, legal framework and revenue models. Again using a transparent, open licensing model]
As you all know the music industry is in the middle of a paradigm shift. Which is very exciting!
The traditional music industry is looking for new revenue models, musicians themselves are becoming business people and all (Internet / mobile) technology out there is used to the max.. right?! uh.. WRONG!
The industry is still making 30 billion dollar a year, not interested hard enough to change. Musicians care about there music and fans more than becoming actively involved in innovating their revenue models. And many creative minds still think that having a profile page online will make them superstars within days.
This is a wake up call! Like any business, we have to innovate, explore new opportunities, adapt to new times and next generations.
With all your knowledge and expertise we can and need to innovate the music industry right here, RIGHT NOW!
I would like to kick off with some of our own ideas, please feel free to edit mine, share yours or write about other music innovations. One thing: this post is all about sharing knowledge and helping each other so comments like 'won't work, bad idea, etc' are only appreciated if you provide a better alternative.
INNOVATE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! [2 Examples]
- Hessel: “We learned big time from the open source community the last 10 years. Use open licensing models to share music and creativity: easy, transparent and legal. When we tell people about our Ready to Share music, we mean Ready to Share! No more scary copyright infringements means that promoting, using and distributing music is fun, powerful and easy again!” [Instead of using DRM or copyright Tribe of Noise uses a 'copyleft', Creative Commons license model]
- Hessel: “We facilitate a platform where musicians can connect directly with each other and industries still spending money (80-100 billion dollar a year) on music like advertisement agencies, game developers and broadcasters. We actively promote musicians but in the end musicians and companies should connect without us telling them to meet.” [Connect musicians with companies and facilitate the technology, legal framework and revenue models. Again using a transparent, open licensing model]
Friday, June 12
Musicians challenged by game industry
Music community Tribe of Noise launches the first Music in Game Contest targeting musicians in search for more exposure and new revenue models. Game developer Kalydo challenges the participants: your music in our successful video game? Let's play!
The development of video games is a labor intensive and creative process. Besides the technology and cool design game developers acknowledge the increasing role of music in games. But, in the real world, how many game developers join forces with composers and musicians to create the best game ever?
“Let's practice what we preach and use web 2.0 and online collaboration tools to make this work”, says Chris van der Linden, Creative Director at Kalydo.”By launching the Music in Game Contest we challenge musicians to send us their best music for one of our most successful games, Konstrukt Invasion.”
Winning the contest is a powerful introduction to the fast growing music industry. On top of all the exposure generated by Tribe of Noise and Kalydo media partners the winner will also be credited in the video game, Konstrukt Invasion.
“The first step to a successful music career starts with showing who you are and what you're capable of”, adds Hessel van Oorschot, co-founder of Tribe of Noise.”As a musician you can be the most talented person on this planet, if nobody knows about you nothing will happen.”
The Music in Game Contest, the successor of the One Billion Fans Contest organized earlier this year, offers musicians and companies an online community to connect and collaborate on commercial productions and campaigns. The next step in a creative and 2.0 world.
http://kalydo.tribeofnoise.com
The development of video games is a labor intensive and creative process. Besides the technology and cool design game developers acknowledge the increasing role of music in games. But, in the real world, how many game developers join forces with composers and musicians to create the best game ever?
“Let's practice what we preach and use web 2.0 and online collaboration tools to make this work”, says Chris van der Linden, Creative Director at Kalydo.”By launching the Music in Game Contest we challenge musicians to send us their best music for one of our most successful games, Konstrukt Invasion.”
Winning the contest is a powerful introduction to the fast growing music industry. On top of all the exposure generated by Tribe of Noise and Kalydo media partners the winner will also be credited in the video game, Konstrukt Invasion.
“The first step to a successful music career starts with showing who you are and what you're capable of”, adds Hessel van Oorschot, co-founder of Tribe of Noise.”As a musician you can be the most talented person on this planet, if nobody knows about you nothing will happen.”
The Music in Game Contest, the successor of the One Billion Fans Contest organized earlier this year, offers musicians and companies an online community to connect and collaborate on commercial productions and campaigns. The next step in a creative and 2.0 world.
http://kalydo.tribeofnoise.com
Friday, April 17
Monday, April 13
Tribe of Noise musician featured on Time Square, NY
As the winner of the One Billion Fans Contest - a Tribe of Noise initiative - Dereck Rose is featured on the World’s Largest Digital Billboard in Times Square, NY! His winning music can be found and shared 24/7 on the Tribe of Noise site.
Musician Dereck Rose Wins One Billion Fans Contest
AMSTERDAM, April 9 /PRNewswire/ — Although CD sales are down there is still a lot to be gained by connecting musicians directly to company sponsors. Re/Max sponsored artist Dereck Rose was recently picked by an international jury consisting of Arne Frager who hosted the illustrious Metallica in his studio, Gary Platt founder of Full Sail University, Mike Linksvayer VP of Creative Commons Worldwide and Sem Bakker, nineties bass hero who played the major European concert stages.
During the last six months ten artists were carried to the top by fans direct internet voting. This year’s winner of the One Billion Fans Contest, Dereck Rose, was hand-picked by an international group of music connoisseurs.
During the last six months ten artists were carried to the top by fans direct internet voting. This year’s winner of the One Billion Fans Contest, Dereck Rose, was hand-picked by an international group of music connoisseurs. Rose, a self-described “singer/songwriter and multi-instrumental musician” was born in Jamaica, moved with family to England where he was misunderstood and thus wrongly placed in a school for autistic children. A world citizen, he traveled throughout Europe, crossing into Israel, which he credits for his true musical inspiration.
One Billion Fans Judge, famed Arne Frager, owner of Plant Studios, host to many of the world’s greatest artists among them Prince, Fleetwood Mac and Aretha Franklin, said of Rose, “Excellent music and poetry, very versatile, a true Artist.”
The One Billion Fans Contest was an initiative of Tribe of Noise, the music sharing site which invokes Creative Commons to insure the legality. Mike Linksvayer, Vice President of Creative Commons Worldwide, said it is “innovative and forward thinking to allow the commercial use of music” and it can be done easily through the by-share alike license.
In keeping with the Tribe of Noise mission, artists were matched up with corporate sponsors. Rose’s Re/Max sponsor, Melissa Miller, lauded, “Dereck defines his sound as ‘True Homemade Music’ that caught our Real Estate eye and listening to his “Painted Boots” sealed the deal.” Re/Max In Motion promoted his music on their site, blogs, and shared his MP3s with their sphere of influence.
Another OBF judge, Gary Platt, co-founder of The Recording Workshop, Full Sail University, and Ex’pression College said, “Quality on Tribe of Noise is fantastic, I’m turning all my producers and people who need great music onto Tribe of Noise. Platt has worked with Bon Jovi, King Crimson, and McDonald’s.
As the winner, Dereck Rose will be featured on the World’s Largest Digital Billboard in Times Square, NY. His winning music can be found and shared 24/7 on the Tribe of Noise site.
ABOUT Tribe of Noise - the largest worldwide community connecting musicians & companies by sharing music legally & hassle free! All music on Tribe of Noise is uploaded by independent artists under a Creative Commons 3.0 By Share Alike license. To find out more about Tribe of Noise, go to http://www.tribeofnoise.com.
Winner of “One Billion Fans” contest announced
Mike Linksvayer, April 9th, 2009
Last fall we posted about the One Billion Fans contest run by the music website TribeOfNoise. Today the winner has been announced (pdf press release) — Dereck Rose, a Jamaican-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist.
Congratulations to Dereck Rose, the jury-selected winner, and the other top ten finalists (I can actually recommend the top vote getter, Bleeemo)!
Also congratulations to TribeOfNoise for pulling off the contest. To be completely blunt, the site looks more crassly promotional than many sites hosting music under CC licenses. However, just as bluntly, there’s a need for hard core promoters of freely licensed music (note that “hard core” modifies “promoters”) — judging by promotions for mass market music, that’s needed for mass market success, and there’s no reason freely licensed music shouldn’t compete in such arenas.
TribeOfNoise is also more innovative on the licensing front than most sites. All music on the site is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. Here’s an explanation sent last month from Hessel van Oorschot, the site’s “Chief of Noise”:
Artists like Moby, Nine Inch Nails and Radio Head made the first moves towards an alternative form of music distribution. A Dutch company called Tribe of Noise takes it one step further. At Tribe of Noise, composers upload their music under a Creative Commons license and allows companies to download, remix and commercially use the music FREE and 100% legal.
ARE THEY MAD?
WHY DO MUSICIANS GIVE AWAY THEIR MUSIC FOR FREE TO COMPANIES?“While the traditional music industry is still in the repressive mode by introducing digital rights management and sending out the watch dogs, we rather think in solutions for like-minded spirits”, says Sandra Brandenburg, founder of Tribe of Noise. “It was not difficult to find thousands of independent artists worldwide who believe in sharing their music, and who actually encourage fans and professionals to freely distribute and build upon their work.”
“We take the Darwinist approach; adapt and you will survive. So instead of resisting change and become extinct you want to embrace change. People are going to share music, so give them something to share. Simultaneously the artist builds an inner circle of valuable contacts. Game developers ($50 billion industry), advertisement agencies ($750 billion industry) and others are more than willing to pay for music. Getting Exposure is the name of the game.”
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