Freedom of Expression & The Future of Music
By Joe Gizzi
While a heated campaign is being waged for the future of the country, your friends at Digital Freedom have been tearing up the trails, campaigning for the future of music. Across state and party lines, our coalition of artists, innovators and fans have joined hands in support of new technologies that allow instant connections between the creator and the consumer, free of a middle man.
Digital Freedom rocked the house during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival in Austin, TX. Well, more accurately, we rocked the parking lot. Seven bands from Washington, DC drove in and rolled out a massive musical extravaganza to promote the benefits of fair use rights at the annual indie music festival. See the photos on Flickr and sample tunes from DF artists.
So what does digital freedom mean to artists? Just ask one of our favorite songwriters, digital rights spitfire Samantha Murphy, who has been busy weighing in on the advent of the digital indie artist:
“Whether you like it or not (and I happen to love it), the Internet and technology are front and center in today’s world. As artists, there’s nowhere we can’t reach and, for the first time, no one is standing in the way of our fans.”
You can read more from Samantha or watch her road show from SXSW, featuring producer Terry McBride (Nettwerk Records, Lilith Fair) and fellow Digital Freedom artists Jonathan Coulton and Middle Distance Runner.
Want to hear more about how artists are making their way in the digital age? Check out Gilli Moon’s new series on the artist entrepreneur.
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