YouTube will broadcast the announcement of the winners of the YouTube Play award live on the internet. The award is a cooperation of YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum. By the award the best 25 videos will be choosen by a jury and exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in an exhibition called Biennial of Creative Video. You may watch the live broadcast at the YouTube channel of YouTube Play.
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The Audio Silver Lining blog has published an article with a review of mobile applications and software to create music. Even by natural restrictions regarding the size of the surface some of these applications have the complete features of a studio software and may be useful in particular situations: Mobile Platforms & Music Production.
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BatLyrics is a comprehensive and resource on song lyrics. Song lyrics may be found by a search engine or directory. The latter is alphabetically assorted and accessible by lyrics, artists, albums and news covering latest submissions. Further more there are charts available for artists, lyrics and albums. Adding new stuff is possible by joining the service. Get more at BatLyrics.
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The music hosting service SoundCloud, a cloud hosting service specialized in uploads and sharing of music files, has launched a particular site with creative commons licensed music. The Creative Commons License is an international initiative to manage copyrights aiming to give different rights to users to use copyright protected works. These rights may include public performances, commercial use and even the creation of derivate works. The site, which provides a further introduction to the creative commons licenses, is reachable by the following internet address: soundcloud.com/creativecommons
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restorm is the name of a social network on music and musicians. The network has done a relaunch lately and became internationally available now by various language versions. The service is targeted to all people interested in music who like to get news or blog about music and even to those interested in business networking and music marketing. The relaunched version has up to date social networking facilities like following and supplies a couple of interesting features and tools like video uploads, contests and raffles. Currently about 16000 members, 5500 bands and 700 labels are active in the social network
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music2deal has relaunched its international business network and marketplace for the music industry and introduces new functionalies primarily regarding networking facilities. Both artists and music companies may represent themselves at the service to connect and to find new contacts for gigs, music production and licensing. The service is active in 30 contries and has about 4000 members. To get further information visit music2deal.
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