Fwd: [BA-NEWMUS:12643] They Grey Album

In a message dated 2004:02:22 09:48:08 PM, mattdavignon@... writes:

>Some guy named DJ Dangermouse took the vocal tracks from Jay-Z's "The Black
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>Album" and mixed them with instrumental material from the Beatles' "White
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>Album". The whole thing's availble at:
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>http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html
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>The irony is that I wouldn't have heard about it if it weren't for EMI
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>Records trying to make it unavailable due to the copyright infringement.

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- "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}

"We don't read & write poetry because it's cute. We read & write poetry
because we are members of the human race. & the human race is filled with passion.
& medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits & necessary
to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay
alive for." - Robin Williams, _Dead Poet's Society_

"Chance is the inner rhythm of the world, & the soul of poetry." - Miguel de
Unamuno

"One thing foreigners, computers, & poets have in common
is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt

"There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, & in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as
'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.

"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
--- Blaise Cendrars

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Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not
impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary
Snyder

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
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> In a message dated 2004:02:22 09:48:08 PM, mattdavignon@h... writes:
>
> >Some guy named DJ Dangermouse took the vocal tracks from Jay-
Z's "The Black
> >
> >
> >Album" and mixed them with instrumental material from the
Beatles' "White
> >
> >
> >Album". The whole thing's availble at:
> >
> >
> >
> >http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html
> >
> >
> >
> >The irony is that I wouldn't have heard about it if it weren't for
EMI
> >
> >
> >Records trying to make it unavailable due to the copyright
infringement.

It's very unlikely they could actually win in court, and I'm sure
they know that. Pure legal intimidation--barratry. My contempt for
the whole idea of intellecutal "property" rises another notch.