Indonesia Netaudio Festival 1 (English)
Have you ever streamed live music performance through the Internet? Download music legally and for free or remix music? Simply that's Netaudio—audio-based activities in the virtual world, part of our real life, the Internet. Music lovers have been familiar with net label and online/internet radio and music sharing activities free from conventional copyright law that binds creativity and not merely oriented to commercial values become important to sustain. A practice of mutual aid, local wisdom in the era of information technology.
Netlabel is a record label that distributes its releases in digital audio format through the Internet, either can be downloaded for free or through paid distribution. The idea is to spread the music freely without geographic boundaries. Netlabel has become an alternative in Indonesian independent music scene which is now stagnant, where the Internet is not yet well anticipated by the mainstream music industry. Yes No Wave Music calls netlabel as an act of 'gift economy', an experimentation that applies free music model for music lovers in the capitalistic world. This act is not an notion to destroy the music industry that has been established for decades, but more as an alternative in distributing music work freely. Free for anyone to distribute, to listen, and to remix. A liberation of creativity. The Internet has given us a chance to democratize 'market'. Technology is rapidly changing and in the process causes information overlaps and shifts cultural, social, and economic orders. The net audio movement tries to evaluate the discourse while also to formulate the correct notion and strategy.
Indonesian Netlabel Union is a collective movement of Indonesian netlabels that aims to create a network among netlabels and to introduce the local netlabels to the public also to be a vessel in evaluating music discourses in the era of information technology. The early steps include releasing compilation album series simultaneously on 1 January 2011. Five active netlabels that took part in the compilation are Hujan! Rekords, Inmyroom Records, Mindblasting, Stone Age Records, and Yes No Wave Music. Indonesian Netlabel Union also opened an offline booth for sharing and merchandising at RRREC Fest #2 in Jakarta, 3–5 December 2011. Our next step is to hold Indonesian Netaudio Festival.
Indonesian Netaudio Festival is an offline event that involves all netaudio agents, observers, and listeners in Indonesia. Besides being a social gathering among netaudio agents and listeners, the event will also involve offline file-sharing, selling merchandise for fund-raising, discussion, workshop, film screening, and live music performance by musicians who release their albums through the Internet. This first festival will also mark Yes No Wave Music's fifth anniversary.
