Barcelona
12, 13, 14 de junio del 2003
LIBRE/COMPLETO
C/ Pintor Fortuny, 31
2 streets away from Sonár Festival.
Burn_station is a project involving the new means of music distribution through the Internet. Our main objective is to link a public that is familiar with the electronic music industry but not necessarily with the tools and labels available freely and legally through the Internet, as we have done before with net radios in our Hypercut project (check our website for further information). Every year between the 12th and the 15th of June on the occasion of Sonar Festival, the city of Barcelona receives a very important amount of visitors, amongst whom, the specialized press, the most recognized electronic music record labels and electronic music followers from all over the world. In the last few years the size and magnitude of this event has expanded beyond the limits set by the festival itself and an ever-growing number of independent events have begun to take place in the city during those days. Within this context we will curate an event aimed at promoting the participating net labels and distributing their music on CD-R for free. For this purpose we will set up a space nearby the venue of the daytime festival where the general public can consult our music databases, listen to the music itself and become familiar with the principles behind the different net labels. The final interest is that the listeners can edit and burn their own compilations, all within a legal context and in a public situation. We are thus inviting net labels and net radios to participate in this open, non-commercial event by providing us with a list or catalog of the files they would like to share and other information or material that they deem important. The labels submit some details about its history, it«s philosophy and the policy concerning the copyrights . The project, tryes to make visible net labels and radios production to all Sonar public passing by, but most important to all the people who can't get in. So we'll distribute cds and infos about alternative licences and Distribution inside and outside sonar. Concretly in the streets of the Raval "barrios", an hot spot of urbanistic, cultural and political debates in barcelona, where Sonar by dayis happening. The final interest is that the listeners can edit and burn their own data/audio compilations, all within a legal context and in a public situation.
