What’s going on here?
Free Marconi is just two guys – Duke Long and Terry Mic – who have known each other forever and enjoy making beautiful music together. This site is the hub of our online presence where we share this music with anyone who cares to listen.
But along with that love of making music, we also share a love of exploring the brave new music frontier – that cross between declining sales in the traditional music industry and incredible new possibilities for new music business models – that nexus between art, commerce, law, and technology that some call, for lack of a better word, Music 2.0.
Explain.
Both Terry Mic and Duke Long have long been students of emerging business models and technologies and are putting some of the concepts they’ve learned into practice – things like 3P, releasing music under Creative Commons licenses, sharing vocal tracks for people to remix, social networking and the like.
In addition, they share the things they’ve learned and continue to learn with other musicians on this site. Those thoughts will eventually be collected into a free eBook – the Musician Middle-Class Manifesto.
Tell me more about the website.
You can do more than just listen to our music and read our silly ramblings here. Let’s take a look.
Staying up to date
You can stay current with all Free Marconi news and updates in lots of ways. If you’re on Facebook, you can become a fan of us there. If you’re on Twitter, you can follow us. RSS feeds are provided by the site if you’re a fan of Google Reader, Bloglines, or any of the other numerous RSS readers out there. You can also sign up to receive updates via email!
Registering and Logging in
Registering at the site is not necessary to listen to music, look at everything available on the site, or even post comments. Registration does give you some additional benefits.
You can earn points for certain actions – described below – and, well, actually that’s about it for now. But the site is still new, and we’re working on adding new features all the time!
If you do decide to register, you can do it in a number of ways. After clicking on the ‘register’ link, you’re offered a choice of either setting up a new username and password, or connecting using your Facebook or Twitter account. Either method works the same, but we included the Facebook and Twitter option for those of you who don’t want to create yet another online profile. It’s quick and easy, just follow the instructions. Don’t worry, none of your personal information is made available to this site if you sign up through Facebook or Twitter!
Points
We wanted to make this site fun for people, and what could be more fun than getting points?
Right now, there’s not many ways to get points, and you can’t do anything with them other than, well, get them. But in the future, we hope to expand this feature – giving you more ways to earn points and things to do with them.
You can see your points total at the top of the screen after you log in. Registering with the site (using either method) gives you 100 points. Leaving a comment gives you 5 points.
Free Marconi FTW
?I am working on getting our YouTube channel up and running, too. Anyone “inspired” to make a video let me know.
I just got 5 points for making a comment. That was easy.
?WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR POINTS?????
nowwww do i get points?
?Yes you do!!!
?Do you guys think we should give away Free Marconi gear when people accumulate a certain amount of points?
?Food for thought, the next 3p is currently being hashed out in the studio as we speak. Anyone interested in a sneak preview, give me a shout.
?I can’t wait. I’d love a sneak peak. When’s it coming out? January?
Sooner than that hopefully! And see, if you would have become a member of the site, you would have gotten 5 points for that comment.
?love it!!!
Gotta love the Cypress Hill influence.
?Can I spend points on having new songs made?
?Yeah, but that’s like a million points.
?Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
Now hit the sirens!
?Yes – my guess is it will be here just in time for Black Friday, or White Monday…
?Hey Polprav – we at Free Marconi are all about web 2.0. Feel free to link and quote. Enjoy the music and keep it free!
?LOL
AND… whoever is posting from Duke Long’s home away from home, PSU, you could have logged-in with your facebook, twitter, google or tons of other ways, and let us see your smiling face. It’s fast, simple and safe as we don’t save any personal info. Give it shot, earn some point and keep the music free!
?I like this remix of 100 Proof. It gives sounds more like a real live band compared to the other versions. It would be sweet if it could be performed live with a real band.
haha
the one who is posting the comments ;D
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