Difference between revisions of "Barragán Sound System"
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| − | Open Music Archive | + | Open Music Archive has been invited by [http://desitio.net/ de_sitio] to develop a research and production residency that takes as a departure point, the music archive of [http://www.casaluisbarragan.org/ Casa Estudio Luis Barragán]. |
Delving into the personal archive of Mexican architect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Barrag%C3%A1n Luis Barragán] (1902-1988), the artists explore the architect’s record collection, housed in his former private residence. Barragán, well known for his devotion to the practice of solitude, clearly found refuge in music. Record players and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in his house (including the garden) and the entire house operates as a kind of playback system. | Delving into the personal archive of Mexican architect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Barrag%C3%A1n Luis Barragán] (1902-1988), the artists explore the architect’s record collection, housed in his former private residence. Barragán, well known for his devotion to the practice of solitude, clearly found refuge in music. Record players and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in his house (including the garden) and the entire house operates as a kind of playback system. | ||
| − | Through their research at Casa Barragán, the artists have explored the legal terrain of the music in Barragán’s record collection – particularly in relation to the complex web of propriety rights locked within the recordings. At the present time Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with legal revisions in 1994 and 2003 extending copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. The artists gleaned material from the collection that achieved the status ‘copyright-expired’ before the legal changes, in an attempt to extract | + | Through their research at Casa Barragán, the artists have explored the legal terrain of the music in Barragán’s record collection – particularly in relation to the complex web of propriety rights locked within the recordings. At the present time Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with legal revisions in 1994 and 2003 extending copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. The artists gleaned material from the collection that achieved the status ‘copyright-expired’ before the legal changes, in an attempt to extract pu |
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Revision as of 16:05, 6 November 2012
Open Music Archive has been invited by de_sitio to develop a research and production residency that takes as a departure point, the music archive of Casa Estudio Luis Barragán.
Delving into the personal archive of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), the artists explore the architect’s record collection, housed in his former private residence. Barragán, well known for his devotion to the practice of solitude, clearly found refuge in music. Record players and speaker systems are installed in almost every room in his house (including the garden) and the entire house operates as a kind of playback system.
Through their research at Casa Barragán, the artists have explored the legal terrain of the music in Barragán’s record collection – particularly in relation to the complex web of propriety rights locked within the recordings. At the present time Mexico currently boasts the most restrictive copyright law worldwide, with legal revisions in 1994 and 2003 extending copyright in recorded sound to 100 years from both the date of recording and the death of the author. The artists gleaned material from the collection that achieved the status ‘copyright-expired’ before the legal changes, in an attempt to extract pu
