Keeping music present in the conversations about music.

Introduction

The power of a simple post such as this one is that it demonstrates that a piece of music can sit along side the conversations that are being had about that piece of music.

A post in a Weblog can also help a musician to document how they made a piece of music by digitally recording each step in the creation process. This can be achieved by the use of simple software that digitally records video and audio. These files become powerful artefacts in demonstrating the music making process.

For example the very basic video recorded in this performance was achived by using a music creation program known as jam2jam. Once compiled together the movie file was uploaded to Youtube.com and then inserted into this post by a Wordpress plugin.

This process is helpful as it allows muscians to publish their works online relatively cheaply. However what is lacking is a method for documenting who the owner of the work is and how the work was made. Tradittional paper based methods use citation systems to handle this. While electronic systems are now only starting to address the problem of authorship by introducing meta-data systems.This paper suggests that a curated performance may be a way of meeting this need.