Re: Lilypond lobbying?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2011-08-22 um 11:34 schrieb Joseph Wakeling:

> On 08/19/2011 09:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > No, they don't. They don't want a free world at all - did you read  
> > their
> > rules?
> >
> > The "winner" has to give all rights to this city hall, and the  
> > contest
> > and its sponsors must appear an all publications of the piece  
> > forever!
>
> Er, no.  They are asked to give up the usual authors' rights for
> _performance of the winning work during the contest_ (until the 18th
> December 2011).  It says nothing about rights for future performances.
...

So I black-heartedly mis-read them. I’m sorry.

(Here's the link again: 
http://mmp.cm-cascais.pt/NR/rdonlyres/5BBEE22D-3C21-4996-AEFE-A2C0B2FAF9C9/12487/regulMCIngles2.pdf)

"he (or she) will give up the usual authors' rights for performances  
of the winning work or any
other promotional events *during the contest*"


> As for the request that you mention the fact that it was competition
> winner in all future CD liner notes, programme notes etc., that's  
> hardly
> an onerous obligation is it?  It's only polite, not to mention  
> mutually
> beneficial.

Ok, here’s the "forever" part.

"""
Any future performances, recordings or commercial editions of the  
awarded works must
include, in program notes, CD/DVD's booklets and scores, the mention "  
Winner of the 1st
International Composition Prize Machado e Cerveira - 2011", or  
“Mention of Honour in the 1st
International Composition Prize Machado e Cerveira -2011”, as well as  
the mention “This prize
had the financial support of the Ministry of Culture”, followed by the  
MC (Ministry of Culture),
CMC (Cascais Town Hall) and CMM (Mafra Town Hall) logos.
"""

"*Any* future ... *must* include, in ... scores(!), followed by  
the ... logos."

Of course a proud composer would mention this contest. But including  
the sponsor’s logos? Forever??
If you don’t become famous, it’s no problem.
But imagine you’d have to credit each of Mozart’s, Bach’s etc.  
principals including their coat of arms in every kind of publication?  
(Ignoring that they're in the public domain now.)

I had to typeset/layout a lot of gastronomical PR stuff - it’s really  
a PITA to always include all supplier logos (brewery etc.), just  
because they helped paying! (Try to get logos in a printable quality!  
Some of them you’ll get as a fax every time, and afterwards they  
complain that’s not in color... A bunch of different logos spoils  
every good layout.)

> > (Why does anyone care about a concerts for six organs at all? I'm  
> > just a
> > humble folk musician, but I know there are great organs around  
> > where you
> > don't need six organists playing at once. I can't imagine there's any
> > musical advantage of six small organs over a good, big one...)
>
> There are things you can do with twelve hands, that you can't with two
> ...  To be honest, musically speaking this looks like a fantastic
> concept: the opportunity to write music for a very particular location
> with very particular acoustic and sonic properties.


I can imagine very particular disharmonies due to the distance and  
spreading of these organs.
But of course it might be interesting to play with "surround" effects.



Greetlings from Lake Constance
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fiëé visuëlle
Henning Hraban Ramm
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