Learning Music

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Learning Music
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John Wood performing at Machine Project in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California.
Background information
OriginGlassell Park, California, United States
Genres Neofolk
Electropop
Spoken word
Experimental
Indie rock
Years active2006–present
Labelsvosotros
Community Pool Tapes [1]
MembersJohn Clement Wood
Past membersOscar Schedin, Mike G, Bram Inscore, Jason Golday, Drew Jorgensen, Gabe Noel, Lisa Tremain, Andrew Epstein, Lewis Keller, Cat Lamb, Charles DeCastro, Joe Tepperman, Sam Robles, Max Markowitz, Damon Zick, Corey Fogel, Noah Harmon, Scott Farr, Marcel Camargo, Devin McNulty, Davin Givhan, Douglas Pipes, Peter Slocum, Daphne Chen, Gus Seyffert, John Kirby, Beth Schenk, Matt Wrobel, Alex Silverman, Alex Noice, Aaron Arntz, Alex Lily, John Gillilan, Zach Harmon, Alice Linn, Keith Karman, Jeff Eliassen, Dave Devine, Jake Blanton, Scott Godfrey, John Michael Richardson, Michael Beltran, Jonathan Silberman, Larry Goldings [2] [3]
Website Learning Music Monthly

Learning Music was an experimental band and music collective based in Los Angeles, California.

Contents

Learning Music was founded in November 2006 by John Clement Wood (backing musician for The Black Keys, Sebastien Tellier, Inara George, Mike Andrews, Anni Rossi). Under the title Learning Music Monthly, the group released one original album per month for three years. [3] The live band ranged from two to twenty performers at once, playing almost exclusively at smaller venues around Los Angeles. The band’s musical influences include Terry Riley, Talking Heads, Storm & Stress, and American folk music. [4]

On December 20, 2009, Learning Music was featured on NPR's All Things Considered. [5]

On March 21, 2010, Learning Music's monthly album series was profiled by the Associated Press. [6]

On April 20, 2010, "Ovulation" by Learning Music was featured as KCRW's Today's Top Tune. [7]

Learning Music Monthly

Learning Music Monthly was a "subscription-based album-a-month series.” [8] This project was started by John Clement Wood and the first twelve albums released were written and recorded in his home studio. These albums feature numerous guest artists. After the release of his twelfth production, Wood stopped recording and formed a live Learning Music band. One year after their production hiatus, Learning Music partnered with Los Angeles-based vosotros [9] and resumed recording and releasing their monthly albums.

The monthly releases of Learning Music are available through their website: Learning Music Monthly. According to the Creative Commons website, Learning Music offered a “tiered subscription service” where subscribers "receive a brand new full-length album of original music every month." [10] The entire LMM catalog is currently available for free streaming and download on their website. Subscribers were able to have physical CDs with artwork from a new artist each month mailed to their homes. All of Learning Music's work is released under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, which according to an interview with John Wood, “inspire[s] new creative opportunities”. Thus listeners are allowed to share and remix the music for non-commercial purposes. [1]

Notable albums include a musical written by a robot, two collections of music videos (where the music was written to pre-made videos by various filmmakers), an album of 99 20-second songs using only samples of kitchen objects and voice, a Greek drama musical telling the story of the first ever Jeopardy! three-way tie, a synth-pop-dance interpretation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, an album of spoken word stories and experimentations, and a variety of other recordings utilizing various mixed genres and production techniques. [11]

The 36th and final issue of Learning Music Monthly was released in April, 2011. [11]

Discography [12] [13]

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Compilations

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References

  1. 1 2 "Learning Music - Free Music Archive". Freemusicarchive.org. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "Learning Music | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos". Myspace.com.
  3. 1 2 "Learning Music Monthly". Archived from the original on 2009-12-19. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  4. ↑ "Filter Mag". Filter-mag.com. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sing, Muse, of the 'Jeopardy!' Three-Way Tie". NPR.org.
  6. ↑ "HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. And World News". HuffPost .
  7. ↑ "Learning Music: Ovulation - Today's Top Tune on KCRW". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
  8. ↑ "Learning Music Monthly: Issue #4 Update". Creativecommons.com. 3 June 2009.
  9. ↑ "John Wood (Learning Music)". Creativecommons.com. 15 July 2009.
  10. ↑ "Learning Music Monthly, CC-Licensed Music Series, Launches". Creativecommons.com. 2 March 2009.
  11. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2012-03-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  12. ↑ "Learning Music". Discogs .
  13. ↑ "CASH Music: Learning Music". Archived from the original on 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
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