Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but as a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release of all the music files, and it's already on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm sure that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
It's public domain, so download, listen and share as much as you wish, but you may also want to show your support to the people behind this project by downloading and naming your price through Bandcamp or purchasing a CD: http://welltemperedclavier.org/
My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one of them is over 100MB).
(Also, tomorrow is Bach's birthday according to the Julian calendar.)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Delightful, thank you.
Fae
On 20 March 2015 at 13:39, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but as a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release of all the music files, and it's already on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm sure that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
It's public domain, so download, listen and share as much as you wish, but you may also want to show your support to the people behind this project by downloading and naming your price through Bandcamp or purchasing a CD: http://welltemperedclavier.org/
My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one of them is over 100MB).
(Also, tomorrow is Bach's birthday according to the Julian calendar.)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Listening to this right now with joy. Thanks!
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org wrote:
Il 20/03/2015 14:39, Amir E. Aharoni ha scritto:
My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one of them is over 100MB).
\o/
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Likewise, I adore this project. I'm so delighted to see this, and love that it happened just before 3/21, 330 years after the birth of JS Bach. Thank you, Amir, for sharing this.
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Gayle Karen Young gaylekaren@gmail.com wrote:
Listening to this right now with joy. Thanks!
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Ricordisamoa < ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Il 20/03/2015 14:39, Amir E. Aharoni ha scritto:
My personal thanks to the people who develop Pywikibot, thanks to which uploading 48 huge files to Commons was easy (and indeed, possible - one
of
them is over 100MB).
\o/
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but as a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release of all the music files, and it's already on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm sure that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
Nice! Thanks!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well?
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but
as
a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release of all the music files, and it's already on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian
Bach
is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as
proofread
digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm
sure
that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
Nice! Thanks!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish--
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I don't know, I wondered, too. בתאריך 21 במרץ 2015 17:58, "Rob" gamaliel8@gmail.com כתב:
Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well?
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 "Amir E. Aharoni" amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but
as
a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open
Well-Tempered
Clavier project was completed yesterday with the public domain release
of
all the music files, and it's already on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_Well-Tempered_Clavier
In case you didn't know, The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian
Bach
is one of the most popular and influential works of European classical music. The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as
proofread
digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
The Well-Tempered Clavier is kinda like the "Dark Side of the Moon" of classical music - if you listen to classical music, you likely own a recording of it already, but since we are free culture geeks here, I'm
sure
that you'll appreciate having this copy, too.
Nice! Thanks!
Regards,
Shlomi Fish--
Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Humanity - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity
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On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well?
*Are you going to work on bringing BWV 870—893 (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2) to the audience next? Or would you explore something else?*
*Kimiko:* My next project, which will be an audio-only project, will be to record the Chopin Préludes on a Pleyel piano that Chopin himself actually played.
It's an exciting project, especially when you realize that Chopin dedicated the Préludes to Camille Pleyel, piano maker and owner of Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the time Chopin lived there.
There will be a Kickstarter campaign for this project that launches very very soon!
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/kimiko-ishizaka-and-musescore-team-...
The whole interview is worth reading, lots of interesting stuff there.
That's wonderful; in the air here also. Thank you for sharing. I wonder if we could get a recording studio to sponsor the recording & post-production for winners of a performance contest in the name of free music: to increase the throughput of efforts like this.
SJ
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well?
*Are you going to work on bringing BWV 870—893 (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2) to the audience next? Or would you explore something else?*
*Kimiko:* My next project, which will be an audio-only project, will be to record the Chopin Préludes on a Pleyel piano that Chopin himself actually played.
It's an exciting project, especially when you realize that Chopin dedicated the Préludes to Camille Pleyel, piano maker and owner of Salle Pleyel in Paris, at the time Chopin lived there.
There will be a Kickstarter campaign for this project that launches very very soon!
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/kimiko-ishizaka-and-musescore-team-...
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter.
Another way to look at this project is: a small team pledged for $30k, got $44k thanks to hundreds of backers, and delivered what they promised, all this requiring (as far as I know) exactly zero resources from any Wikimedia organization.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/opengoldberg/open-well-tempered-clavier... (tagged as #classical-music)
Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been #public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been #public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?
This is a wonderful idea. There is an occasionally-active hashtag already, #FundFreeCulture, but it would be a lot more useful if it had support from Creative Commons and other organizations and the people asking for funding started using such a tag proactively.
See also the FOSsil Bank updates (run by Chris Sakkas, cc'd, who started that hashtag) which has intermittent posts about free culture crowdfunding campaigns: https://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/category/round-ups/fossil-bank-updates/
-Sage
Hi Sage and all,
Thanks for looping me in. I haven't been following the Wikimedia mailing list before now, so forgive me if I miss something.
I (and, infrequently, others) use the #FundFreeCulture hashtag on Twitter to keep track of free and open projects that you can contribute money to, whether that's through donation drives, crowdfunding, conventional sales and commissions, subscriptions, etc.
What Quim Gil seems to be suggesting is taking advantage of the metadata of Kickstarter (and IndieGoGo and Patreon would be the other big ones) to identify projects. I think #public-domain, #free-knowledge and #creative-commons would all be useful tags to have in common use.
There is already a page on Kickstarter for Creative Commons projects https://www.kickstarter.com/pages/creativecommons, although it only shows ongoing and successfully funded projects (not failed projects), and it is not necessarily updated (for example, I alerted them to Blades in the Dark https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2080350433/blades-in-the-dark, which will be partially CC BY-NC-SA licensed, and they haven't added it).
In terms of funding free culture, please do check out the FOSsil Bank. The most useful pages for you are probably:
- http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/fundfreeculture (this collects all entries to the wiki that allow for monetary contributions in some way) - http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/patreon (this collects all libre Patreon pages) - http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/promised-libre-works (this collects works that I've come across that the creator says will be libre licensed in the future. This is where I put Kickstarter projects that have been funded but haven't yet been released)
I'm excited to join the conversation,
Chris
*Chris Sakkas**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/ and the Living Libre blog http://www.livinglibre.com and Twitter feed https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre.*
On 23 March 2015 at 06:37, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been #public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?
This is a wonderful idea. There is an occasionally-active hashtag already, #FundFreeCulture, but it would be a lot more useful if it had support from Creative Commons and other organizations and the people asking for funding started using such a tag proactively.
See also the FOSsil Bank updates (run by Chris Sakkas, cc'd, who started that hashtag) which has intermittent posts about free culture crowdfunding campaigns: https://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/category/round-ups/fossil-bank-updates/
-Sage
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