Small Brain Records
Encyclopedia
Small Brain Records is an open source record label
started in 1993
in Traverse City, Michigan
by Jim Ryan and Sheamas O'Donnel (of the infamous group Joey). At that point in time everything was released on cassettes and reels. Over the years she has taken roots in the Detroit area, bringing together Detroit electronic music
with free jazz
. Its goal has always been to connect with as many like-minded artists, and to collaborate on video, and sound projects. Works can be downloaded free under an unspecified Creative Commons
licenses. Open source projects in Max/MSP/Jitter are available, as well as animated scores.
Open source record label
Open source record labels are a reaction against what some musicians see as corporate control of music via means of copyright. They believe that creativity requires that musicians reappropriate and reinterpret music and sounds to enable them to create truly innovative music.Open source record...
started in 1993
1993 in music
This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
in Traverse City, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
by Jim Ryan and Sheamas O'Donnel (of the infamous group Joey). At that point in time everything was released on cassettes and reels. Over the years she has taken roots in the Detroit area, bringing together Detroit electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
with free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
. Its goal has always been to connect with as many like-minded artists, and to collaborate on video, and sound projects. Works can be downloaded free under an unspecified Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
licenses. Open source projects in Max/MSP/Jitter are available, as well as animated scores.
Partial roster
- Shenanigans.tv
- The rattling wall collective in Dutch
- Jim Ryan
- KeroKeroA kero is an ancient Incan drinking vessel used to drink liquids like alcohol, or more specifically, chicha. They can be made from wood, ceramics, silver, or gold...
- Nick Raftis III