Music for the inner ear

Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard

MUSIC FOR THE INNER EAR

Transfer of value

- imaginary property

When the listener becomes the composer in creating imaginary music for the inner ear - then what about copyright?

On the afternoon of 26 April 2018, Transfer of Value was performed for the first time ever, as a part of the Danish Science Festival at Peryton in the centre of Copenhagen.

An imaginary text-music-piece was handed out to the audience, who would then read the text and imagine music for their inner ear.

But, what about copyright?

Transfer of Value takes the consequence of ultimate audience involvement: copyright is dissolved and split among the members of the audience. If you take part in the process of imagining the work, you will receive payment from KODA - the Danish copyright organisation (assuming that you are a registered member of KODA).

Copyright came into existence, along with book printing in the Middle Ages, and Transfer of Value discusses the notion of copyright within a pre-alphabetic perspective, prior to the age of copyright.

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Transfer of value