Whose future is it?

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Philippe Aigrain - ISMIR'04

One step aside

Content is not king!

And the people in the houses

All went to the university

Where they were put in boxes

And they came out all the same

And there's doctors and lawyers

And business executives

And they're all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same.

And they go to the university

And they major in philosophy

And they're all deep thinkers

And they all think just the same

And they all read their Sartre

And they all read their Kierkegard

And they all talk about it

And they all sound just the same

And they all like folk music

and they dig Woody Guthrie

And just like Bob Dylan

They all sound the same

Societal P2P networks have become a more

efficient source of access to published and

broadcasted material than libraries and

archives ...

Electronic and hiphop scenes are competing

with “official” contemporary music composition

as promising users for content-based

synchronisation and interaction ...

The archive fever of open architectures returns

us [...] to the era of live jazz and blues sessions,

where everyone had access to the same songs,

but where they flipped things until they made

their own statement

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that subliminal kid,

“Rhythm science”

Creative commons have gone from idea

to project to reality in many domains ...

Software and information patentability

are the object of fierce political debates

in Europe and globally ...

After 20 years, reviews of the impact of

the Bayh-Dole act conclude to an

unsignificant contribution of licensing as

a funding source for public labs.

A selection of music information dreams

A set of (free software) music content processing, indexing & retrieval modules, with a basic framework for combining them in practical chains of usage

Public domain and voluntarily created musical commons as the basis for all MIR work

P2P file sharing as a respected social and technical paradigm for archiving and reusing music (and the rest). That your creativity would be mobilised to serve it, help it develop and be more respectful of musicians, defend it, rather than helping others attack it

... and going beyond the retrieval paradigm

As much here depends on your environment (legal famework, research policy), whatever you choose to support, support it yourself, don't believe others will do it for you

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Philippe Aigrain - ISMIR'04

Thank you for your attention

2004-10-05T11:11:33