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What Is Open - by Richard Goodman [Disquiet 0202 - Cost of Freedom]

from Disquiet Junto by Michel Banabila

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Poem by Richard Goodman.
costoffreedom.cc/book/opening:freedom/what-is-open

Disquiet Junto Project 0202: Text-to-Speech-to-Free :
Create an audiobook chapter from the new essay collection The Cost of Freedom.

Earlier this week the book The Cost of Freedom, with an essay by Lawrence Lessig, among others, was published into the public domain. Its goal is to raise awareness about the ongoing detainment of Creative Commons coder/artist Bassel Khartabil Sadafi. I have an essay in the book, as does Jon Phillips, who encouraged that China-gallery project we did a few weeks ago (project 0195).

We’re going to help spread the book by creating audiobook entries of some of its chapters. This is the third Junto project related to Bassel. On March 12, 2015, the third anniversary of his seizure, we did Disquiet Junto Project 0167: Placid Cell. And earlier still, on January 23, 2014, we did Disquiet Junto Project 0108: Free Bassel.

These are the steps:

Step 1: Obtain a copy of the free book The Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry at:

costoffreedom.cc

Step 2: You will be turning one of these chapters into a spoken-word recording. You’re encouraged to use text-to-speech, but you also can read it aloud. Select a chapter — perhaps out of a specific interest, or perhaps by chance operation. When doing so, please, if you have a moment, please register which chapter you’re doing on the Disquiet discussion forum, so we’re less likely to have repeated chapters:

disquiet.com/forums/discussion/…02-bassel-chapters

Step 3: Create a track with the spoken text of the chapter and additional background music. You can use your own original music, or source audio from previous Bassel-related projects. The text should remain intelligible. Do confirm the license on music from these two projects before employing:

disquiet.com/2015/03/12/disquiet0167-freebassel/ disquiet.com/2014/01/23/disquiet0108-freebassel/

Step 4: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud. In the title to your track include the term “disquiet0202-costoffreedom” and the title of the chapter you used.

Step 5: When sharing the music, please consider employing these two tags: #freebassel and #newpalmyra. The first is an ongoing tag raising awareness of Bassel’s situation. The second, related to Junto project 0167, involves collective effort to continue one of Bassel’s art projects: a three-dimension CGI rendering of the ancient city of Palmyra.

Step 6: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
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I used a track (Samos-F) from this album I released on bandcamp yesterday: banabila.bandcamp.com/album/feedback…-radiowaves-ii
I chose the poem by Richard Goodman, and used text-to-speech. Then I made the mix.

What is open?
Is it a gap or a space?
Is it something in public?
Or a practice we chase?

Open is unenclosed
It is an expanse
Did we get here by planning?
Or merely by chance?

Open is an opportunity
A chance to broaden the mind
Free tools and resources
To benefit all of mankind

Open is an aperture
Something you look through
Access for all
Not just the few

Open is a cavern
A vast empty space
A new way of working
Falling into place

Open is a competition
That anyone can enter
A growing global movement
With sharing at its centre

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from Disquiet Junto, released August 4, 2013

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