[pp.int.general] Free! Music! Contest 2010

[Christian Hufgard]

Hi pirates!

I'd be very glad if you spread the word about the Free! Music! Contest
2010 in your countries.

Thanks for helping!

Christian



To promote Creative Commons-licensed music and the musicians behind
them, Musikpiraten e.V. launches this year once again the Free! Music!
Contest [1].

Until the end of july musicians and bands releasing their art under a
Creative Commons license, can register on the website of the association
for the contest [2]. Until august 22th there will be an additional
remix-phase: the participating artists are invited to submit single
stems or acapellas in addition to the individual audio tracks. By
submitting individual tracks or the submission of music videos, the
chance to be on the samler will increase - but just a little bit.

A panel of music bloggers, artists and netlabel enthusiast the decides,
who will be promoted on the Free! Music! Sampler 2010. It will be
available as a free download and also pressed on CD. The highlight of
the Free! Music! Contests will be on october second a party at the
Wiesbaden Kreativfabrik [3].

In addition to artists, we also looking for sponsors. If you are
interested to get involved monetarily or with a price all the necessary
information can be found at [4].

Free! Music! Contest 2009
=========================

2009 [5], nearly 60 artists, mainly from germany but also from other
european countries, the U.S. and brazil, filed Creative Commons-licensed
music for Free! Music! Contest. The published compilation presents a
wide selection of music style: german punk, english rock, electro, jazz
and modern piano music, almost everything is available [6].

Despite a price of 2.50 € and a free download option, all 1000 CDs have
been given away. On the pulication day the sampler has been download
only at musik.klarmachen of-the-aendern.de more then 1,500 times!

Musikpiraten e.V.
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Musikpiraten e.V. is a registered non-profit association whose purpose
is to promote free culture with emphasis on music as an artistic mean of
expression. To achieve these objectives, the association organizes and
supports events and opereates the musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de.

On the website, the association regularly presents bands and musicians
who have released their works for free. Each month a creative commons
licensed film is presented and shared. In addition, many projects are
presented, which can help creatives to make their works more easily
accessible to the public, so as to increase their awareness. Last but
not least, current news from the world of free culture are published.

In addition, the association offers seasonal projects as 'Creative
Christmas'. This was the tag for a christmas calender filled with
creative commons licensed music. More than 12,000 visitors took
advantage of this calender, to find out about free, not always 100%
christmasly music.

Images taken at the party can be found at [7], the official logo at [8].
On request we gladly offer the images in a higher resolution.

Yours sincerely,

Christian Hufgard

1st Chairman music pirates e.V.


[1] http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/free_music_contest-2010-en
[2] http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/fmc/2010/band/registration
[3] http://www.kreativfabrik-wiesbaden.de/
[4] http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/fmc/2010/sponsor/registrierung
[5] http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/tags/allgemein/free_music_contest
[6]
http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/nachrichten/free_music_sampler_veroeffentlicht_update
[7]
http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=14&g2_page=1
[8] http://musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de/files/fmc-2010-orange.jpg