Undersea Music
We visited the Faroe Islands back in May of this year. Eysturoyartunnilin is an undersea tunnel connecting the islands of Streymoy and Esteroy in the Faroe Islands. It is 11.2 kilometers long (6.9 miles) and also features the first undersea roundabout.
Not to let an opportunity to do something randomly artistic in addition to the impressive engineering feat, the Faroese have decorated the roundabout as an art exhibit - it is lit with multicolored lights and surrounded by figures of people.
They also added another iconic touch - Faroese composer Jens L. Thomsen composed an ambient piece of music featuring sounds sampled from the construction process which is broadcast in the tunnel on FM 97.0. So you can have an appropriate soundtrack during your journey through the tunnel.
The colored lights that show starting at around 3:24 indicate the deepest part of the tunnel 189 meters below the surface.
The roundabout appears at about 6:47.
I never saw a video of this with the music and no talking, so wanted to provide that experience.
Facebook Being Morons Award
A couple of days ago I uploaded to Facebook a video featuring a song of mine (Mandala) from last year's album. Secret Worlds. Within seconds, I was hit with an ownership claim from the "content owner", some Spanish-language news channel that seems to specialize in horoscope videos called Enterteniento Viral. It happened way too quickly to be anything other than an automated response.
I contacted Facebook and their response was basically, "prove it's really yours." I sent them links to the video which has been on YouTube for a year, links to my site where a copy of the full album is streamable. They came back with "Based on the information you’ve provided, it is not clear to us that you are the rights owner or are otherwise authorized to submit this report on the rights owner’s behalf. Please note that we can only process reports from a rights owner or someone authorized to report on their behalf (example: lawyer, agent)."
So I have to hire a lawyer or an agent just to contest this? Great system, Zuckerhead.
I sent them a copy of the copyright form. They responded by deleting my post altogether.
This isn't about money. Even if the video got a shit-ton of listens on Facebook it still wouldn't even generate a full penny in compensation. It's about respect. I had uploaded the video directly to Facebook, because they push that harder than linking to a YouTube-hosted video, which is what I usually do. That will teach me.
Fighting social media algorithms is mostly a pointless battle. I just hate getting stepped on by someone else's shitty programming.
Indie Prog Awards
Our friends at the Friday Night Progressive show have informed us that The Odd Get Even has won 3rd place in the Fusion category for the 2018 Indie Prog Awards. Thanks to all who have taken the time to check out our music and especially to Ronald Marquiss for helping to get us heard. Shows like Ronald's are extremely important for independant artists like us who are frequently outside of the mainstream view.
Check out Friday Night Progressive for some great listening!