Learning Music
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Learning Music is a folk/electric/instrumental band and music collective based in Los Angeles, California.
Learning Music was founded in November 2006 by John Clement Wood (keyboardist for Inara George
, Sebastien Tellier
, Mike Andrews
, Kelly Osbourne
, Anni Rossi
). The live band ranges from four to twenty performers at once, typically using about fifteen performers, and plays almost exclusively at smaller venues around Los Angeles
. The band’s musical influences include: Terry Riley
, the Talking Heads, Storm & Stress
, and Woody Guthrie
.
On December 20, 2009, Learning Music was featured on NPR
's All Things Considered
.
On March 21, 2010, Learning Music's monthly album series was profiled by the Associated Press
.
On April 20, 2010, "Ovulation" by Learning Music was featured as KCRW
's Today's Top Tune.
Their MySpace
page cites the following people as members “(but not always and certainly not limited to)” of the Learning Music live band: Oscar 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, Mahatma Gandhi
The monthly releases of Learning Music can be obtained through a subscription service by visiting their website: Learning Music Monthly.
According to the Creative Commons
website, Learning Music offers a “tiered subscription service” where subscribers "receive a brand new full-length album of original music every month." For a subscriber-specified contribution, listeners have digital access for one year to all of Learning Music's releases and download MP3s from their site. Subscribers may also have physical CD's 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.
Learning Music was founded in November 2006 by John Clement Wood (keyboardist for Inara George
Inara George
Inara Maryland George is a Los Angeles, California-based singer-songwriter, one half of The Bird and the Bee, a member of the band Merrick, with Bryony Atkinson, and a member of the trio The Living Sisters, with Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark...
, Sebastien Tellier
Sébastien Tellier
Sébastien Tellier is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers, a French independent record label. He sings in English, French and Italian.-Biography:...
, Mike Andrews
Mike Andrews
Michael Jay Andrews is a retired American Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics. He is currently the chairman of The Jimmy Fund, an event fundraising organization affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston,...
, Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is an English media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne...
, Anni Rossi
Anni Rossi
Anni Rossi is a singer, violist and keyboardist from Minnesota. She graduated for the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, MN. She is notable for her unique style of playing the viola and singing, often at the same time, although her solo records also incorporate elements of...
). The live band ranges from four to twenty performers at once, typically using about fifteen performers, and plays almost exclusively at smaller venues around Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
. The band’s musical influences include: Terry Riley
Terry Riley
Terrence Mitchell Riley, is an American composer intrinsically associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music and was a pioneer of the movement...
, the Talking Heads, Storm & Stress
Storm & Stress
Storm & Stress is an American experimental/noise rock band. The band's name is derived from the German literary movement Sturm und Drang.-Discography:*Storm and Stress - Touch & Go Records...
, and Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
.
On December 20, 2009, Learning Music was featured on NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
's All Things Considered
All Things Considered
All Things Considered is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio. It was the first news program on NPR, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets...
.
On March 21, 2010, Learning Music's monthly album series was profiled by the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
.
On April 20, 2010, "Ovulation" by Learning Music was featured as KCRW
KCRW
KCRW is a public radio station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, carrying a mix of National Public Radio news, talk radio and freeform music format. The general manager of KCRW is Jennifer Ferro...
's Today's Top Tune.
Learning Music Monthly
Learning Music Monthly is a "subscription-based album-a-month series.” This project was started by John 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 and resumed recording and releasing their monthly albums.Their MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page cites the following people as members “(but not always and certainly not limited to)” of the Learning Music live band: Oscar 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, Mahatma Gandhi
The monthly releases of Learning Music can be obtained through a subscription service by visiting their website: Learning Music Monthly.
According to the Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
website, Learning Music offers a “tiered subscription service” where subscribers "receive a brand new full-length album of original music every month." For a subscriber-specified contribution, listeners have digital access for one year to all of Learning Music's releases and download MP3s from their site. Subscribers may also have physical CD's with artwork from a new artist each month mailed to their homes. All of Learning Music's work is released under a Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as 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.
Season 1
- LMM 1.1 - Whales this November (November 2006)
- LMM 1.2 - De-December (December 2006)
- LMM 1.3 - Readers, Travel (January 2007)
- LMM 1.4 - The Songs of Clem Ten (February 2007)
- LMM 1.5 - No Fingers, Hands (March 2007)
- LMM 1.6 - Memorial (April 2007)
- LMM 1.7 - In My Living Room Thursday Night (May 2007)
- LMM 1.8 - Jason Golday's Burning Music (June 2007)
- LMM 1.9 - Songs For Singing (July 2007)
- LMM 1.10 - Readers, I Like To Read (August 2007)
- LMM 1.11 - September Still (September 2007)
- LMM 1.12 - Contagious (October 2007)
Season 2
- LMM 2.1 - Allegro (March 2009)
- LMM 2.2 - Matchstick Monument (April 2009)
- LMM 2.3 - An End Like This (May 2009)
- LMM 2.4 - Geochemistry (June 2009)
- LMM 2.5 - You Can Take It In (July 2009)
- LMM 2.6 - Frequency Histograms for Predictor Variables (August 2009)
- LMM 2.7 - Friends Who Are (September 2009)
- LMM 2.8 - Famous: the Jonny Pride Story (October 2009)
- LMM 2.9 - Horizontal Household Ballads (November 2009)
- LMM 2.10 - (a telling of) The Greatest Event in Sports History (December 2009)
- LMM 2.11 - Fifteen Two Part Inventions for 2010 (January 2010)
- LMM 2.12 - The Biologic Imperative (February 2010)
Season 3
- LMM 3.1 - Left Right (May 2010)
- LMM 3.2 - Neapolitan Shake (June 2010)
- LMM 3.3 - Learning Music with the Students at KIPP LA College Prep (July 2010)
- LMM 3.4 - Little Spookie (August 2010)
- LMM 3.5 - In The Lights (September 2010)
- LMM 3.6 - Face Fingers (feat. Nowcloud) (October 2010)
- LMM 3.7 - Untitled (November 2010)
- LMM 3.8 - LARGER (December 2010)
- LMM 3.9 - Congratulations (January 2011)
- LMM 3.10 - Base and the Superstructure presents: The $pectacle (February 2011)
- LMM 3.11 - Confessions Accounts Ruminations (March 2011)
- LMM 3.12 - Choreos Incorporated (April 2011)
Compilations
- The Greatest Hits So Far EP (vosotros, 2008)
- This May Also Be It (vosotros, 2009)
- It May Also Be This (vosotros, 2010)
- An End Like This (Free Music Archive, 2011)