MUSIC AND SELF-ORGANIZATION

The idea of this research is to promote and distribute self-produced music or non-commercial independent music labels. We would like to unite different influences, different ways of producing - from homemade music, to net labels, music made under the creative commons license, or non-mainstream self-organized labels.

Why is this important to us?

Mainstream products present to us a music devoid of sense and relevance, based only on economic interests. The music industry produces a massive output of homogeneous standardized songs that create the "taste" and the "needs" of its consumers, mostly teenagers, whereas the DIY actors commit themselves to creativity, free artistic expression and emphasize on diversity. "DIY means taking culture production into one's own hands and has most often been used by groups who had been historically excluded from or misrepresented by the culture industries." 1

DIY also means to get along with what you have at hand, and if that is not enough, association with other people and solidarity comes spontaneously. It is the starting point of a life-philosophy that proposes one possible answer to the contemporary social system, which is based on passivity and power delegation.
DIY is synonymous with action, autonomy, self-organisation, sharing and re-appropriating. It is a quotidian life-philosophy against our financial and material dependence on the capitalist system where personal initiatives barely breathe in a global culture of apathy maintained by the mass-media spectacle. It meant and still means a lot to us. We want to share our experience with you and introduce you to our friends, acquaintances, and invite you to become familiar with the Great Copy-Paste Community!

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1 Doreen Piano in "Congregating Women: Reading 3rd Wave Feminist Practices in Subcultural Production"; Revue Rhizomes 04, Spring 2002.