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Aram Sinnreich

Aram Sinnreich is a bassist, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in the Washington, DC area. He writes and perform music in a wide variety of styles, from jazz to reggae to punk to R&B. He has served as bassist and/or composer for artists and groups including Ari Up, Vivien Goldman, The Specialized Project, Low Lily, Hans Nieswandt, Agent 99, King Django, The Rooftoppers, The Tributary Project, Artsouca, and Cheick Hamala Diabate. His own musical projects include: world music duo Dunia & Aram (GMO Records), reggae soul band Dubistry, and progressive neo-soul collective Brave New Girl. Among other awards, his compositions have been selected as finalists in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Competition.

Awards

2020: Semifinalist, Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Award; 2014: Finalist, John Lennon Songwriting Competition (jazz category); 2001: Jazz composition award winner, Just Plain Folks.


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Aram Sinnreich: "Criminalizing File-Sharing Is... It's Literally Pathological; It's Insane."

Aram Sinnreich: "Criminalizing File-Sharing Is... It's Literally Pathological; It's Insane."

Source: HypeBot

Aram Sinnreich, a professor at Rutgers University and author of the book Mashed Up, gave this speech at NYU in early December. It starts off a little slow, but it picks up speed as he breaks into music industry analysis. If you're looking for the quote that I pulled from the talk, you'll have to buffer to about an hour in. In this lecture, he gives a fascinating overview of the legislation that's being used in an attempt to hamper ...

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