The CAMPAIGN FOR FREE MUSIC believes that there is no justification for claiming ownership over art. We have created this website as a means to educate artists and the public about how they can dedicate their work to the public domain, and why this could be better for everyone.
Currently, the site is a work in progress.... but we hope that we are already helping you to reconsider the perceived primacy of material, and re-evaluate their notions of ownership and even authorship when it comes to music (and intellectual property generally).

Stolen Music was originally conceived for my final project as part of the IRCAM Cursus, but it is also an ongoing musical world-building project composed of websites, audio collages, acts of piracy etc.

The basic aim of the project is to explore two main ideas that matter to me:

Examining the boundaries of a "piece" of music: questioning the idea of the sole author and finding ways to subvert the linear, sectional timeline of a typical musical performance
Presenting an argument that all musical material should be fair game for all people to work with, regardless of who owns it under current copyright law.

This project owes a huge debt to Claudia Jane Scroccaro, the other teachers at IRCAM, and my colleagues from my course who let me mess with their music. Much more info is available on the dedicated website.