a group of people humming in unison

 

horsemouth is up. he has the window open but he is wearing a jumper. it's very sunny but with a nip on the air. 

it is the fourth anniversary of the release of musicians of bremen's the humming 

- a three track ep made up of tracks from the 2019/2020 recording sessions. as far as horsemouth can remember himself and howard became frustrated with the song recording process and decided to attempt some more improvised things. 

the humming itself derives from  the commons project at the tate gallery, especially anna and hannah catherine jones for the session they put together.  the backing was originally recorded on a phone in the tate modern, a group of people humming in unison by howard. horsemouth went, that sounds good.  

'we can all copy things and publish them to social media whenever we like' say the bbc in a show on copyright.

technically yes but the musical commodity is still hemmed round with copyright restrictions. 

for example here musicians of bremen make the tracks available to stream for free (go on click the link!) but if you want to download them that will cost you. the tracks are currently not available on physical CD. the humming itself may become available of physical CD if they do a second run of the CD with the tracks currently available on the download or streaming version of the album volume four (to which it has been added). 

if anybody were to copy these tracks and sell them without musicians of bremen's permission then the bremenites could (in theory) sue. but horsemouth thinks they would be more likely to be grateful for the publicity. 

horsemouth has published (over on facebook) his books, films, gigs, events list for june 2024. he will continue to add to it until the end of the month and then publish it here. it's by no means a complete list (but it is quite exhausting).

 

he is thinking of extending the gigs category to be gigs and musical purchases.

horsemouth thought the scheme to reopen pontrilas railway station was dead! but it has come back as golden valley parkway! it would certainly be useful for the mule

at 3pm this afternoon horsemouth has a zoom call about retrofit. in the morning he will wander up asda (the supermarket in the fields - 3 miles all told also). he has sent in the gas and electricity readings,  he will let more people know he is back and around. (no point visiting h______ and skulking around in splendid isolation). saturday a meet up with howard. 

yesterday he went for a walk round the book-boxes and a walk up the supermarket (3 miles all told). he sat out in the park in the sun and finished off esther leslie's biography of walter benjamin. 

ok yes the binmen. hail the binmen.