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This is a copy of a post from our OpenMusicMedia blog, would be great to see you there on the 17th September!

After months of trying to get this nailed down we are very pleased to announce that Joi Ito will be in London and joining us to lead the conversation at the next OpenMusicMedia! Joi is the CEO of Creative Commons so make sure you clear your diaries for 17th September for what looks set to be a great session.

Most of you will probably have heard of Creative Commons already, but we think that it’s a topic that is not discussed enough by a music industry that has traditionally built its business around a different view of copyright. There’s lots to discuss and we’ll only have one evening, but here are just a few of issues that we’d like to talk about:

• What role does Creative Commons have to play within the music industry?
• Does CC mean we are just giving away our music for free and no one makes any money?
• The existing licensing structure for the music industry has been working for so many years, is CC just making it more complex?

As always we want you to get involved as much as possible in the conversation – before, during & after. We’ll be meeting at around 6pm and the talk will start at 7pm, usually lasting around an hour. We strongly recommend that you stick around after as often the best part of the conversation happens over a beer or two.

The event is free and open to everyone but please RSVP on Facebook to help us working out how many people will attend. Please note that we expect this to be a busy night so we recommend arriving early in order to find a seat. If you’re late we can’t guarantee entry. Leave a comment below or contact us on Twitter if you have any questions.

Thursday, 17th September 2009
6:00 PM

William IV

7 Shepherdess Walk
London, EnglandN1 7QE
(Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)

This post was originally published on our OpenMusicMedia blog but I re-posted it here for you guys to read as well. Would be great to see you there:

We wanted to do something slightly different for this next meetup, we wanted to discuss ‘Music As Culture’. Leading the conversation will be New Music Strategies’ Andrew Dubber and Jez Collins. This conversation actually started at Unconvention Salford but we felt it was one worth continuing down in London for OpenMusicMedia. But what exactly does ‘Music As Culture’ entail? We’ll leave it to Dubber to explain below…

Music As Culture

It’s no surprise to anyone that the music industries are struggling in the digital age. Faced with a filesharing populace, an incredible array of media choices, a tough economic climate, and plenty of other things for people to spend money on, it can be pretty tight for a lot of people in the industries.

Recent research demonstrates a link from openness and inclusion to massive untapped potential for all kinds of businesses. Consumers have a bigger say in the fate of the industries than ever before – and while they recognise the commercial aspects of music business, they do not accept that old systems of control are relevant to them anymore.

By empowering consumers, opening access to archives and for scholarship, enriching the public domain, according popular music the same cultural status as classical and folk musics, and treating audiences as part of the music process (rather than as merely passive consumers), the society we live in is a much richer and vibrant one.

It’s good for culture, it’s good for the economy, it invigorates local scenes, it’s a lifeline for artists – and it’s great for business. In fact, it might just be what saves the music industries.

As always this will be an open discussion and you will set the agenda for the night. We’ll be starting the discussion at around 7pm but feel free to be there by 6pm and have a drink with us. You can find all the details below, if you have any questions, leave a comment or contact us via twitter.

The event is free to open to everyone but if you can please RSVP at our new Facebook group.

William IV

Because of the tube strike in London we had to cancel this event but we have now confirmed a new date.

We look forward to seeing you on the 1st July 2009 at the William to discuss Videos & Music. You can find all details below:

In all our previous OpenMusicMedia sessions the focus has primarily been on music – we talked about recommendations, live music, different ways of consuming recorded music and of course how the whole ecosystem of music works (or not) and what has to happen to make it work in the future.

For our next night we want to discuss an art form which has always been closely related to music: videos. We have invited Caroline Bottomley who is the founder of Radar Music Videos, “a music video commissioning platform and music video director network” to present us with her ideas on the future of music videos. She will be explaining why her website is important for musicians and video producers and from there we will try and explore how digital technology has been affecting visual content.

As always the conversation will kept very broad – topics we want to talk about include:

• Do artists need music videos these days?
• Is it easier of harder to get exposure for your music videos in the age of YouTube?
• What makes a video ‘viral’?

As always this will be an open discussion and you will set the topics for this night. We’ll be starting the discussion at around 7pm but feel free to be there by 6pm and have a drink with us. You can find all the details below, if you have any questions, leave a comment or contact us via twitter.

The event is free to open to everyone but if you can please RSVP at our new Facebook group.

Wednesday, 10th June 2009 1st July 2009
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM

William IV

This week I talked about our OpenMusicMedia event which took place last week. It’s a free event so come down next time too if you are in town.

I also talked about my trip to Toronto for Canadian Music Week and what I’ve been up to there.

You can listen to all this here.

1. Clues ‘Perfect Fit’
2. Oh No! Oh My! ‘Skip The Foreplay’
3. Ape School ‘Wail To God’
4. Asobi Seksu ‘Familiar Light’
5. The Twilight Sad ‘Three Seconds of Air’
6. Tim Hecker ‘Sea of Pulses’
7. Cathode ‘Stabiliser City’
8. Bat For Lashes ‘Glass’
9. Handsome Furs ‘What We Had’
10. A.C. Newman ‘Take On Me’
11. Those Dancing Days ‘Those Dancing Days’
12. Mount Eerie ‘Flaming Home’
13. Lawrence ‘Rabbit Tube’ (DJ Koze Remix)

If you are in London on the 10th March, make sure you come to our OpenMusicMedia meet. Also – as mentioned – you can find the artwork for the new Grizzly Bear album ‘Veckatimest’ here, I haven’t heard it yet but certaily looking forward to it.

You can listen to all the below here.

1. Those Dancing Days ‘Those Dancing Days’
2. AGF / DELAY ‘Congo Hearts’
3. The Decemberists ‘I’m Sticking With You’
4. Grizzly Bear ‘Knife’ (Live)
5. M. Ward ‘Rave On’ (Featuring Zooey Deschanel)
6. Lambchop ‘Paperback Bible’
7. Shout Out Out Out Out ‘Guilt Trips Sink Ships’
8. MODESELEKTOR ‘200007′ (Paul Kalkbrenner’s Tap Sum Bong 20009 Remix)
9. Lawrence ‘Rabbit Tube’ (DJ Koze Remix)
10. Gui Boratto ‘Take My Breath Away’

We’re very pleased to have Spotify speak at our next OpenMusicMedia meet which happens on the 10th March, as always at the William IV in East London.

Spotify is a streaming music service that gives listeners free and legal access to millions of tracks via their desktop client.  It’s a service that has proved popular amongst early adopters and is already changing the way that many people access music.

Thanks to everyone who came down to our OpenMusicMedia meet last night. Anyone who missed it can check out this short interview with Songkick’s Ian Hogarth which nicely sums up what we talked about.

Big thanks to Andrew Dubber for recording this, I think there might be some more footage coming. Thanks also to David Emery who took some great pictures and added them to our flickr group.

Ian Hogarth – Songkick from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

Join us for our OpenMusicMedia Meet in London next Wednesday (4th Feb 09). This time Songkick’s Ian Hogarth will be leading the conversation as always at the William IV near Old Street Station.

The theme set by Ian is ‘Live & Kicking’ and he’ll be talking about how the industry has boomed over past 9 years and where the concert industry is going to be in 5 years time. How start-ups and technology are going to accelerate that, and what you need to do to get on the train. With traditional recorded music sales in decline is the future of the music industry live? What can artists and bands do to monetize their live performances? Is it sustainable? What changes are we seeing in the live music sector? And what happens if the music doesn’t lend itself to the live arena?

Find more details on the OpenMusicMedia blog and hope to see you next week!

A lot of people have asked us if we will organize another OpenMusicMedia Meet this year and Dave and I felt that we can’t let 2008 end without without getting together one more time. Join us next Tuesday (2nd December) in London at the Williams IV – we won’t be having a guest speaker this time so we’ll be sticking to good conversation in addition to food and drinks.

We’ll be meeting at the usual place, usual time, which means upstairs at the William IV pub after work from 6pm till kicking out time. For those who haven’t been already the William IV is just round the corner from Old St. Hope to see you all down there!

More info on times, venues, etc here and please RSVP if you can.

This time with slightly short notice: If you are in London next Wednesday (10th September) come down to our OpenMusicMedia Meet at the William IV in East London. This time Eric Wahlforss from SoundCloud will join us for what will certainly be a lively debate.

This is a quote from his recent blog post and will explain what we will be talking about:

“The Web is a giant copying machine. And yet, if people can avoid having to copy something, they will. The problem is that today, the music industry suffers quite a bit from illegal file sharing–a giant copy party. What is going to happen over the coming years is that this copy fest will wind down.

(…) The key, being a music service or a label or an artist in this world of link-passing, is to own the most relevant copy. With most relevant I mean the most happening copy, the most accessible copy, the most usable copy, the coolest copy, the earliest copy, the most exclusive copy, the copy with the best sound quality, the most permanent copy, the most social copy, the most remixed copy, the most authentic copy, the most interoperable copy, etc.”

Please find all details here and looking forward to seeing you next week!