Monday, August 14, 2006
New music gets its own online archive
 Finland is famous for Santa Claus, Nokia cell phones, the Linux operating system, Jean Sibelius, and many fine musicians and contemporary composers. Now the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) has launched an innovative internet archive that will give access to recordings of many contemporary Finnish composers that have been unavailable for years, including compositions by Jukka Tiensuu who is pictured above. The archive has been made possible by a ground-breaking agreement between the Finnish broadcasters, musicians, copyright holders and unions. The story is important because it makes new music available on the internet in performances by world-class musicians. But it is even more important because it creates a business model which can be replicated in other countries.
On An Overgrown Path has the full details of the new internet archive for contemporary music including the composers featured there. And it asks the question why other broadcasters, such as the BBC with their huge archives of Boulez, Stockhausen, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies, and many others, are not following the same route as the Finns?
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posted by Pliable
8/14/2006
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