Announcement: Free! Music! Contest 2010
To promote Creative Commons-licensed music and the musicians behind them, this year Musikpiraten e.V. once again launches the Free! Music! Contest. We are happy to present famous Cory Doctorow as the contest’s patron!
Until the end of July musicians and bands releasing their art under a Creative Commons license, can register at the contest association’s website. Until August 22nd 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 sampler will increase - but just a little bit.
A panel of music bloggers, artists and netlabel enthusiasts then decide 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! Contest will be on October 2nd — a party at the Kreativfabrik Wiesbaden.
In addition to artists, we’re also looking for sponsors. If you’re interested to get involved monetarily or with a prize, all the necessary information can be found here.
Free! Music! Contest 2009
In 2009, 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 musical styles: German punk, English rock, Electro, Jazz and Modern piano music, almost everything is available.
Despite a price of 2.50 € and a free download option, all 1000 CDs have been given away. On the day of publication the sampler has been download at musik.klarmachen-zum-aendern.de more then 1,500 times!
Musikpiraten e.V.
Musikpiraten e.V. is a registered non-profit association whose purpose is to promote free culture with emphasis on music as an artistic means of expression. To achieve these objectives, the association organizes and supports events and operates 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 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 calendar filled with Creative Commons licensed music. More than 12,000 visitors took advantage of this calendar, to find out about free, not always 100% Christmasly music.
Images taken at the party can be found here, the official logo here. On request we gladly offer the images in a higher resolution.
Yours sincerely,
Christian Hufgard
1st Chairman Musikpiraten e.V.