Cheyenne from FMA |
In this episode:
Talking with the person that makes things go at the freemusicarchive.org Cheyenne Hohman
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Notes from the interview:
Cheyenne is the engine of FMA
36 of 36 on Radio Free Culture
bi-monthly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight
interim director for a bit
IS degree
podcast at previous job at University of Kentucky -- 300!
Why CC?
Library Science...also...
zines...the first place she saw CC
she had also seen this logo:
WRFL: http://wrfl.fm/
iTunesU: iTunes U - App
Tom also likes zines!
Paper Zines!
mostly a way to stay writing and stay creating
karaoke bars.
karaoke means empty orchestra
"avant-garbage"
what is "word art"?
Computers can’t communicate
predictive text poems
twitter account: Google poetry
"why is my dog on fire?"
technology can help you in weird ways
"welcome to Cheyenne’s brain"
contributed to compilation zines
How did you get involved in music?
"blah blah blah"
music nerd...but maybe not as much as other people at WFMU
so much you will never here...even just on FMA
music copyright is complicated!
off the deep end without a floaty ring
people don’t want on vimeo sometimes
Song was name of the band
sampling is an issues
What’s new at the FMA?
new web developer is Ross
blind leading the blind at first
What’s coming up at the FMA?
embeddable player...and a bunch of other technical stuff...just in the planning stages right now though
What sort of feedback did you get?
All over the place
"I love all the metal songs"
player should look like X
"Why aren’t you soundcloud?"
monkey hate free music!
"This is a weird thing."
A sonic adventure!
"then, you just look stupid" Don’t quote him though!
list yourself in multiple genres...up to three...and you can do track-based genres
there’s always something!
songaphone curator: A game of telephone with a song
stems for premix ended up cool
More people?
mostly focusing the site, but....
fundraiser is coming up!
trying not to be obnoxious
Producers and listeners are often the audience
archive.org won the race to updating the sight!
people look like they are getting tossed out of the
Who should we talk to?
Manuel Silva: link
mistrecords
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