Monday, March 20, 2006

Truly, they are librarian gods 

I've been fascinated with this collection of old cylinder recordings all day today. These are works that are old enough to be out of copyright, so UC Santa Barbara has made them available on the web in one of the best digitization projects I've ever seen. This is why I'm looking for work in this field. I hope someday I'll be involved in something this cool. There's some fantastic stuff here, and you can download the MP3s under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, or download the WAV files and use them in whatever manner you wish. I can't wait till someone uses a great song like "If he can fight like he can love, goodnight Germany!" in a movie. Long live the public domain and awesome librarians!

Comments:
oh yeah, they are totally involved with my project. it's so awesome. although they do have some racist songs that are amazing historically, but personally a bit disturbing. i'll be jamming to their radio station and then "youse my nigger" comes on, and it just is not the same.
 
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