Dan Krimm is a fretless electric bass guitarist
What you can find here:
and composer, focusing on progressive jazz
and other forms of improvisation.
information about the music
music-related writing
other music-related activities
MUSIC
Ma Nishtana -- The Blues Version (free MP3 download)
A recording of the Four Questions from the Passover seder as a 12-bar blues, music composed/arranged and all parts performed by Dan Krimm, listen at your own risk.
Sentience
Debut album, recorded 1986
Subtle Truth
Second album, recorded 1991
Extra Basses
Unreleased demo (precursor to Subtle Truth, multi-track bass overdub arrangements), recorded 1990
Live performances
Info about upcoming gigs and recent past performances
Short music-related bio of me
MUSIC WRITING
GrooveLily CD Review
Some good friends of mine released a CD in 2003 that kicks butt. If you don't know about them and like intelligent pop music, check 'em out and check out their web site.
Jazz Reviews
A couple of brief stints as a reviewer under the pseudonym "Aubrey Dannault"
Music Unbound
A web site I maintain devoted to the proposition that commercial/professional music is stuck in rigid concepts of style, genre and format, and needs to be broken out of arbitrary categories in order for music as an art form to flourish properly.
MISCELLANEOUS
[New Music TBD] of Los Angeles
The audience club I founded for experimental and exploratory music being performed in and around Los Angeles. The web site collects together a lot of information about what is going on where, who is doing it, what they are doing, and how to get there. (Note: I'm no longer updating the web site, but the discussion list is still operating.)
WiReD/Listening Post blog post
I had a whimsical idea driving on the freeway and posted it to the Pho email list, and Eliot Van Buskirk thought it was worth posting to his blog at WiReD (shared with Sean Michaels) called Listening Post.
POLICY WRITING
Statement to US Delegation to WIPO
A group of over 20 people representing various public interest groups and businesses met with the US Delegation to WIPO to voice concern with proposed provisions and policy formulation process for the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty. I was present, and gave this statement. (PDF version) (February 2006)
Bounded Choice: The Illusion of Flexibility in a Controlled World (PDF)
This 5-page essay addresses growing threats to competition and choice of information in the new-media world, and the need to pro-actively oppose these developments so as to protect the principles of 'Open-End-to-End' and 'Control-of-Root'. (August 2005)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Response to Neil Turkewitz
Neil Turkewitz, Executive Vice President of the RIAA, criticizes those advocating for the public interest in copyright policy, on Cultural Commons. This is my response. (December 2004)
Creating a Merit-Based Music Economy:
Compulsory or Blanket Licensing for Interactive Subscription Services (HTML)
A paper about the problems with the music market structure, possible corrections, and action items required for the fix. (PDF version) (September 2001, rev. June 2003)
BOOK LINKS
The Problem of the Media:
U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century
A book by Robert McChesney, founder of Free Press, on the essential framework of contemporary issues involving control and regulation of mass media in the U.S. (If you join the Free Press organization, you can get a copy of this book for free.)
Free Culture:
How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law
to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
A book by Lawrence Lessig on contemporary issues regarding copyright. You can download a free PDF version of this book. I've created an expanded outline of the book (under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License) here
The One-to-One Future: Revisited
A white paper examining the assumptions and predictions regarding customer-relationship management originally presented in 1993 by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers in their groundbreaking book "The One-to-One Future".
PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATION LINKS
Media & Democracy Coalition -- Media Bill of Rights
There is now an umbrella organization called the Media & Democracy Coalition that announced itself in a press conference on May 9, 2005, with over 155 organizations (including many of those listed below) signing on to the declaration at this web site. This is the first major step to coordinate the activities of all of these organizations, and a step forward toward increased effectiveness in mobilization, agenda setting, and political lobbying.
Center for Creative Voices in Media
Tens of thousands of writers, directors, producers, performers, musicians, and other talented professionals give life to our nation's popular and literary art and entertainment. But the ability of these creative artists to do their best work has been severely compromised by excessively concentrated media ownership. Our nation's democracy and culture depend on a vital and diverse "marketplace of ideas." When independent, creative voices are locked out of that marketplace by media conglomerate "gatekeepers," not only are the artists harmed, so is the public. As a nation, America is poorer for a homogenized media concentrated in the hands of a few corporate behemoths that too willingly sacrifice creativity before the altar of maximum profits. The Center for Creative Voices in Media is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving in America's media the original, independent, and diverse creative voices that enrich our nation's culture and safeguard its democracy. (From the Center for Creative Voices in Media website)
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media. (From the CDT website)
Center for Digital Democracy
The Center for Digital Democracy is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming. To these ends, CDD has four broad goals: (1) To enhance public understanding of the changing dimensions of the US digital media system, by explaining the communications options and the public-interest resources that citizens should have at their disposal. (2) To foster the development of a new generation of activists to work on digital media policy issues, and to make the media industry more accountable to the public. (3) To promote the development of a new online "commons," a consolidated and more visible space in which the public will have access to a variety of noncommercial sources of information and service. (4) To stimulate nonprofit organizations (especially progressive, public-interest groups) to become active producers of next-generation broadband media content. (From the CDD website)
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity. The project invites recipients and senders of cease and desist notices to send them to a central point (here, at chillingeffects.org) for analysis, and to browse the website for background information and explanation of the laws they are charged with violating or enforcing. Clinical law students will prepare issue-spotting analyses of the letters in the question-and-answer style of FAQs, which we will post alongside the letters in an online database. The site aims to educate C&D recipients about their legal rights. Site visitors may search the database by subject area or keyword. (From the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse website)
Click The Vote
Click The Vote is an independent grassroots non-profit group fighting for new technology user rights. (From the Click The Vote website)
Common Cause
Common Cause is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization founded as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest. Media and Democracy Program: Common Cause is working to ensure that the media meets its obligations to serve the public by promoting diversity, accessibility, and accountability among media corporations and the government agencies that regulate the media. Our Media and Democracy program has four goals: (1) fighting media consolidation, (2) protecting Public Broadcasting, (3) holding the media accountable by promoting public interest obligations, (4) developing and advancing a long-term agenda for a more democratic media. (From the Common Cause website)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPSR is a public-interest alliance of people concerned about the impact of information and communications technology on society. We work to influence decisions regarding the development and use of computers because those decisions have far-reaching consequences and reflect our basic values and priorities. As experts on ICT issues, CPSR members provide realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society. (From the CPSR website)
Consumer Project on Technology
The Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) is a non-profit project started by Ralph Nader in 1995. Currently CPTech is focusing on intellectual property rights and health care, electronic commerce (very broadly defined) and competition policy. (From the Consumer Project on Technology website)
Cultural Commons / Center for Arts and Culture
The Cultural Commons was created by the Center for Arts and Culture, a Washington based think tank that seeks to inform and improve the decisions that affect our cultural life. The Cultural Commons seeks to attract new interest and new thinking about arts and cultural issues, engage a broad and diverse constituency in a lively exchange of ideas, and provide resources and ideas for further involvement -- such as event participation, employment in the cultural policy sector, research, or even new partnerships for organizations. (From the Cultural Commons website)
Downhill Battle
Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization working to end the major label monopoly and build a better, fairer music industry. (From the Downhill Battle website)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas, thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age. EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. EFF opposes misguided legislation, initiates and defends court cases preserving individuals' rights, launches global public campaigns, introduces leading edge proposals and papers, hosts frequent educational events, engages the press regularly, and publishes a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information at one of the most linked-to websites in the world. (From the EFF website)
Free Press
Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to increase informed public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies that will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong nonprofit and noncommercial sector. (From the Free Press website)
Future of Music Coalition
The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technology issues, while also bringing together diverse voices in an effort to come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges in this space. The FMC also aims to identify and promote innovative business models that will help musicians and citizens to benefit from new technologies. (From the FMC website)
HearUsNow.org / Consumers Union
HearUsNow.org follows Consumers Union's long tradition of promoting a fair and just marketplace by empowering consumers to fight for better and more affordable telephone, cable and Internet services or equipment. By focusing on major media, technology and communications issues and emphasizing local stories, HearUsNow.org will help explain increasingly complex issues and the connections between these issues, underscore what's at stake, and offer ways to make improvements. (From the HearUsNow.org website)
IPac
IPac is a nonpartisan group dedicated to preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual property policy. (From the IPac website)
IP Justice
IP Justice is an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law. The organization's focus is on international treaties, directives, and other trade agreements that address intellectual property rights or impact freedom of expression guarantees. IP Justice is an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. (From the IP Justice website)
Media Access Project
Media Access Project (MAP) is a thirty year old non-profit tax exempt public interest telecommunications law firm which promotes the public's First Amendment right to hear and be heard on the electronic media of today and tomorrow. MAP's work is in the courts, the FCC, and in active outreach as a coalition builder among other public interest organizations. (From the Media Access Project website)
Media Alliance
Media Alliance is a media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. (From the Media Alliance website)
MediaChannel
MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit, public interest Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from our international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. Resources include thematic special reports, action toolkits, forums for discussion, an indexed directory of hundreds of affiliated groups and a search engine constituting the single largest online media-issues database. MediaChannel is concerned with the political, cultural and social impacts of the media, large and small. MediaChannel exists to provide information and diverse perspectives and inspire debate, collaboration, action and citizen engagement. (From the MediaChannel website)
Media Tank
Media Tank seeks to provide compelling and informative programs, guided by the following goals:
* To build public awareness around media issues by providing entry level media education opportunities, in formal and informal learning settings, to get more people thinking about the role media plays in their lives, and help them to develop their own tools for analysis
* To advocate for a sphere of public discourse that restores the importance of civic values and offsets the mainstream media ideology where everything is commodified
* To become a unifying presence for Philadelphiašs large but fragmented media community by providing resources, and serving as an information clearinghouse for local and national interests
* To raise the profile of media education and activism within the cultural landscape of Philadelphia. (From the Media Tank website)
People For Internet Responsibility
People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR) is currently a global, ad hoc network of individuals who are concerned about the present and future operations, development, management, and regulation of the Internet in responsible ways. PFIR is in the process of incorporating as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. The main goal of PFIR is to provide a resource for individuals around the world to gain an ability to impact these crucial Internet issues, which will affect virtually all aspects of our cultures, societies, and lives in the 21st century. PFIR is nonpartisan, has no political agenda, and does not engage in lobbying. (From the People For Internet Responsibility website)
Public Knowledge
Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons. The group works with a wide spectrum of stakeholders -- libraries, educators, scientists, artists, musicians, journalists, consumers, software programmers, civic groups and enlightened businesses -- to promote the core conviction that some fundamental democratic principles and cultural values -- openness, access, and the capacity to create and compete -- must be given new embodiment in the digital age. (From the Public Knowledge website)
Reclaim the Media
Reclaim the Media envisions an authentic, just democracy characterized by media systems that inform and empower citizens, reflect our diverse cultures, and secure communications rights for all. We are a nonprofit organization that advocates for a free and diverse press, community access to communications tools and technology, and media policy that serves the public interest. Three broad themes guide our projects:
* We work to change media policy at the local and federal level, so that the structure of our media favors the public interest, rather than a powerful few.
* We teach media literacy education because citizens need to understand how news can be shaped by journalistic habits and by powerful commercial and political interests.
* We support community media because we cannot entrust our history, our culture and our democracy to the consolidated media empires alone. (From the Reclaim the Media website)
StartChange
StartChange.org is a 501(c)4 advocacy group. Our mission is to bring together the efforts of thousands of people in online campaigns to create progressive outcomes offline. Together, we will fight to make sure our media is fair, businesses are honest, and our government is not radicalized. (From the StartChange website)
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