The group Platoniq, in collaboration with a growing group of independent artists and record labels that publish their music with copyleft (*) licenses on the Internet (net labels), have been developing the project Burn Station since 2003. An initiative that over time has created an alternative model of production, distribution and use of copyleft music in the public space.
Burn Station strategically fuses the experience of peer-to-peer networks (online file-sharing systems) with that of the historic Jamaican sound systems.
Burn Station is inspired by the autonomy of sound systems, creating powerful modules that allow the format of concert, radio and free distribution of street music to be mixed.
Burn Station moves the independent production of net labels and net radios into urban spaces, with two aims: to spread the production emerging from the Net and to act as a voice for the model that free culture has injected into the different spheres of society.
Inspired by Jamaican sound systems, this module allows concerts or DJ sessions to take place during the distribution activities. 3 copying posts and 300W of free culture in its pure state!
Burn Station can be found in San Francisco Cultural Complex from the 10th to 13th of November 2009, where anyone can use it, guided by the Platoniq team.
(*) Copyleft is based on a series of alternative licenses to copyright that allow the author to decide the conditions and freedoms to use, adapt and distribute their work.
