Music Two-point-zero

I presented a one hour public lecture for the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, entitled . The "idea of a music two-point-zero" represents some more thinking about the independent musician vs.big media conundrum, and gratefully draws on the work of Lawrence Lessig and Henry Jenkins

"Music two-point-zero:

How participatory culture is reclaiming knowledge,

power and value systems from the inside out"

The abstract goes like this:
In the last decade, the Internet has served to enable the explosion of social networking. From MySpace, to YouTube and Wikipedia, participatory culture has transformed value systems, undermined notions of authority and power, while simultaneously creating new pathways for autonomous creativity and innovation. In this lecture, Paul Draper discusses these phenomena and suggests a higher learning imperative for what might be considered ‘music 2.0’, that is, for independent musical craft set in authentic contexts which continue to redefine 21st century artistry.

The lecture is available as a PDF transcription, a streaming Quicktime movie and vodcast at Radio IMERSD, or from the Apple iTunes Store.

Contribute, Communicate, Collaborate

I wrote a new paper about net-based knowledge economies for music-making entitled, "Contribute, communicate, collaborate: the Internet as Workplace in the Digital Arts" as part of the AUC Academic Developer's Conference "Contribute, Communicate, Collaborate".

This was held at the Royal Pines resort on the Gold Coast, Queensland from 23– 26 September, 2007 and was nice to catch up again for colleagues from 38 member universities in Australia and New Zealand. I also worked on the on the peer review panel and it was engaging to see the range of material and different kinds of thinking coming from creative institutions, academics and technologists. The full set of published papers can be accessed from the AUC Conference proceedings here.