[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 125, Issue 10

[Leah Bobet]

So I'm very interested in this "life of an album" question, from the
perspective of a novelist and former bookseller. Because yes, the life of a
creative work post-release (even pre-release to a certain degree; I'd say
once it gets into production?) is absolutely the building and maintenance of
an infrastructure, and I'd be very into discussing this.

Leah Bobet
--
AN INHERITANCE OF ASHES (Clarion Books/Scholastic Canada, October 2015)
ABOVE (Arthur A. Levine Books, April 2012)



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   1. Fwd: What does it mean to maintain a record after release?
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   2. Amazon killed my Kindle and I'm fighting back (Nathan Proctor)


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The Maintainers ? this comes from music, but the maintenance question is
literal.

SCALED ALPS just released a 16-track record whose canonical object now
exists across masters, metadata, a CD in a cardboard slipcase, web pages,
track graphics, store/distribution systems and all the ordinary files that
begin decaying or drifting the moment a release becomes ?finished.?

The record itself leans visually on technical documentation and obsolete
interface language, which makes the post-release problem unusually visible:
at what point does releasing an artwork become maintaining an
infrastructure?

A complete 38-second track:
https://scaledalps.bandcamp.com/track/selling-it

Whole record:
https://scaledalps.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-alpine-play

Your community?s insistence that maintenance is substantive cultural work
rather than the boring phase after invention made this seem like a
legitimate specimen from outside the usual repair/infrastructure world.

James Quentin Devine
SCALED ALPS / BLUE HELL
Los Angeles
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From: Nathan Proctor <nproctor at pirg.org>
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Amazon killed my Kindle and I'm fighting
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Hello!

I'm following up on my earlier Electronic Waste Graveyard tool with our new
video explainer on the topic. It's part of a new series I am working on
around planned obsolescence and copyright restrictions.

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRc4MIKYss

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Nathan Proctor
Senior Director, U.S. PIRG Campaign for the Right to Repair
O: (857) 413-2534
C: (203) 522-3860
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