{"id":11309,"date":"2010-09-18T19:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2040"},"modified":"2010-09-18T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:05:06","slug":"freedom-squared-free-improvisation-in-the-free-software-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/freedom-squared-free-improvisation-in-the-free-software-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Squared: Free Improvisation in the Free Software World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Michal Seta.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tIn this paper I draw a parallel, based mostly on my own experiences, between the sense of freedom involved in the use of Free Software and Free Improvisation in music. I have been making music with the Linux operating system and software libre for the past ten years. Incidentally, I have been involved with so called \u201cfree improvisation\u201d for about the same amount of time. Recently I have given some thought to the fact that there are points, on the ideological and\/or philosophical level, common to these two concepts, otherwise seemingly unrelated. For an electroacoustic musician\/improviser, the use of software is simply unavoidable. Below I explain why, in my understanding, a free improviser in the context of electronic music will feel right at home with free software. This paper is simply a collection of personal reflections and thoughts about the subject.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.concordia.ca\/econtact\/11_3\/seta_freedom.html\">Link<\/a> (via Jane Tingley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michal Seta. In this paper I draw a parallel, based mostly on my own experiences, between the sense of freedom involved in the use of Free Software and Free Improvisation in music. I have been making music with the Linux operating system and software libre for the past ten years. Incidentally, I have been &#8230; <a title=\"Freedom Squared: Free Improvisation in the Free Software World\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/09\/18\/freedom-squared-free-improvisation-in-the-free-software-world\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}