Our friends at Creative Commons launched a new website today with LA-based dublab.  I didn’t understand exactly what they were doing when I first read about it - but I just spent some time on the site and it’s definitely worth checking out.  Into Infinity is an online art + music exhibition based upon circular canvases (the ‘eye’) and audio loops (the ‘ear’).  They distributed 12″ paper circles to a number of visual artists and commissioned some musicians and producers to create 8 second audio loops.  Hit refresh on the exhibition page to see a new circle and listen to a new loop.  There are download links for the sounds and images - all of which are licensed under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial copyright license, meaning that you are free to share and remix them for noncommercial purposes.

“Sampling, remixing, and repurposing other people’s work has resulted in some of the greatest art of our times,” says Eric Steuer, Creative Commons’ creative director. “With this project, we want to make the statement that this sort of creativity should not only be legal, but also explicitly encouraged.”

If you’re not familiar with Creative Commons, visit their website and get to know them a little bit.  We’ve been supporting them since we started vosotros - and I continue to believe their ideas are shaping the future of music on the web. [CC interview with vosotros, Feb 2008].