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Learning Music is a folk/electric/instrumental band and music collective based in Los Angeles, California.
About
Learning Music was founded in November of 2006 by John Clement Wood (keyboardist for Inara George, Sebastien Tellier, Mike Andrews, Kelly Osbourne, Anni Rossi). The live band ranges from four to twenty performers at once, typically using about fifteen performers, and plays almost exclusively at smaller venues around Los Angeles. The band’s musical influences include: Terry Riley, the Talking Heads, Storm & Stress, and Woody Guthrie.[3]
Learning Music Monthly
About
Learning Music Monthly is a "subscription-based album-a-month series.”[4] This project was started by John Wood and the first twelve albums released were written and recorded in his home studio. These albums feature numerous guest artists. After the release of his twelfth production Wood stopped recording and formed a live Learning Music band. One year after their production hiatus, Learning Music partnered with Los Angeles based vosotros[5]and resumed recording and releasing their monthly albums. Their MySpace page cites the following people as members “(but not always and certainly not limited to)” of the Learning Music live band: Oscar Schedin, Mike G, Bram Inscore, Jason Golday, Drew Jorgensen, Gabe Noel, Lisa Tremain, Andrew Epstein, Lewis Keller, Cat Lamb, Charles DeCastro, Joe Tepperman, Sam Robles, Max Markowitz, Damon Zick, Corey Fogel, Noah Harmon, Scott Farr, Marcel Camargo, Devin McNulty, Davin Givhan, Douglas Pipes, Peter Slocum, Daphne Chen, Gus Seyffert, John Kirby, Beth Schenk, Matt Wrobel, Alex Silverman, Alex Noice, Aaron Arntz, Alex Lily, John Gillilan, Zach Harmon, Alice Linn, Keith Karman, Mahatma Gandhi[6]
Subscription
The monthly releases of Learning Music can be obtained through a subscription service by visiting their website: Learning Music Monthly. According to the Creative Commons website, Learning Music offers a “tiered subscription service” where subscribers "receive a brand new full-length album of original music every month."[7] For a subscriber-specified contribution, listeners have digital access for one year to all of Learning Music's releases and download MP3s from their site. Subscribers may also have physical CD's with artwork from a new artist each month mailed to their homes. All of Learning Music's work is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, which according to an interview with John Wood, “inspire[s] new creative opportunities”. Thus listeners are allowed to share and remix the music for non-commercial purposes.[8]
Season 1
- LMM 1.1 - Whales this November (November 2006)
- LMM 1.3 - Readers, Travel (January 2007)
- LMM 1.4 - The Songs of Clem Ten (February 2007)
- LMM 1.5 - No Fingers, Hands (March 2007)
- LMM 1.6 - Memorial (April 2007)
- LMM 1.7 - In My Living Room Thursday Night (May 2007)
- LMM 1.9 - Songs For Singing (July 2007)
- LMM 1.12 - Contagious (October 2007)
Season 2
- LMM 2.1 - Allegro (March 2009)
- LMM 2.2 - Matchstick Monument (April 2009)
- LMM 2.3 - An End Like This (May 2009)
- LMM 2.4 - Geochemistry (June 2009)
- LMM 2.5 - You Can Take It In (July 2009)
- LMM 2.6 - Frequency Histograms for Predictor Variables (August 2009)
- LMM 2.7 - Friends Who Are (September 2009)
- LMM 2.8 - Famous: the Jonny Pride Story (October 2009)
External links:
Learning Music Monthly
Myspace
Facebook
Flickr
LastFM
Muxtape
Muzu.tv
Sound Cloud
Twitter
Virb
YouTube
References:
- ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameronparkins/3322453064/
- ^ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music
- ^ http://www.filter-mag.com/index.php?id=19362&c=6
- ^ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14927
- ^ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/15795
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/learningmusicmusic
- ^ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13077
- ^ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Learning+Music
- ^ http://learningmusic.cashmusic.org/