johnbostockmusic

If you live in Melbourne, Australia, don’t miss the Arko Symphonic Project’s revival of my Concerto for Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Timothy Phillips.
8th October at Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote.
Also on the program works by Eliot Gyger, Simon Charles and Felipe Pinot d’Aguiar.

I am starting a list of sites that make my music available for “free download”.
The music is free to the providers because they don’t pay for it! This is called Piracy in the real world or Copyright Infringement if you want to be genteel about it.
Some of these sites require you to download an app.(lication) for you to hear the music. Some require you to join a club, and some like the first on this list require nothing at all. What is called “file sharing”.

http://melodycenta.com/John_Bostock/Seeing_Sky-music/mp32455158/

These people have ripped the physical disc because they are making available a track that is not available on the downloadable album.
Nowhere on their site does it say where they are based or under which copyright agreement they operate.
Next up we have Free Fox who enable ‘file sharing’.
They incorporate a copyright infringement warning to their users in their ‘device’ set up. I will be sending them a take down notice asap.

http://www.freefox.com/mp3/John-Bostock-Swan-Song.htm

What I especially like about these people is that they have the gall to categorize my music as Christian/gospel.
I notice now that they have done this to a song of mine from my earlier Trio album – Journey to Gythia – ‘Song for Peace’.
Don’t these Christians have any sense of shame?

http://www.freefox.com/mp3/John-Bostock-Song-for-Peace.htm

Here is another one – selling my music ‘cheap’ on the internet
These people are not only stealing my copyright materials but also those of Raye/DePaul, who wrote Here’s That Rainy Day. Sure sign that this material is ripped-off because this song does not appear on the digitally downloadable disc, only on the physical copy.

http://musparade.com/album/John+Bostock/Seeing+Sky

WHEN IS THIS INTERNET OFF-RIPPING GOING TO STOP?
I am a private individual who one time used to write music. I will not do it anymore because my copyrighted material is consistently being ripped-off on the internet.
ENOUGH ALREADY!
WHEN IS SOMEONE GOING TO PUT A STOP TO THIS?

http://musparade.com/album/John+Bostock/Seeing+Sky

in fact the user is paying for a service that allows him to use file sharing.
Independent artists are the greatest victims of these arrangements because they do not have the legal muscle of the large corporations that fought Napster and made them go legal.

I have just finished uploading Ensemble Meitar’s performance of my piece: “Loud Music With (only a few) Quiet Bits” to Bandcamp.
Enjoy free streaming or download a copy.
Thanks for listening.

I am an independent artist. The last disc I released was in 2008, almost four years ago. This is because I have to earn my living. My music sells on the basis of its quality alone. I do not play in public or have a promoter. There are no videos on YouTube. Despite this my music has received 723 listens on LastFM, which has earned me roughly $0.36 at the rate of $0.0005 per listen. Now calculate studio time at roughly $45/hour and if you do the math you see that I need 90,000 listens to pay for one hour of studio time. If each listener had paid $0.99 to download each track I would have earned roughly $715 and would be able to pay for 15 hours of studio time – enough to make another disc. Now see why the last disc I made was in 2008.

Just heard today – its official: Melbourne’s Arko Symphonic Project, conducted by Timothy Phillips, have programmed my Concerto for Chamber Orchestra for a concert on the 8th October, 2011.
Check out their new website at

http://www.arckosymphonicproject.org.au/

16/09/10

Have just returned from a recording session at HaTeiva with Ensemble Meitar. These guys may be crazy – but they do a great job.
The air-conditioning was turned off because it creates additional noise, so soon everyone worked up a sweat.
With Arel Paz producing and Ronald recording, Guy Feder conducted Ensemble Meitar in a challenging drive towards perfection.
I discovered that this piece: “Loud Music With (Only a Few) Quiet Bits” is more difficult than I anticipated.

Performance greeted by critical silence

On 12/09/10 Ensemble Meitar gave the World Premiere performance of my work “Loud Music With (Only a Few) Quiet Bits”, during the Festival of Israeli Music.
The performance conducted by Guy Feder at the Givatayim Theatre, appeared on a program alongside works by Hana Agiashvilli, Yinam Leef and Menachem Zur.
Though broadcast live by Kol HaMusica this outstanding performance by Israel’s premiere contemporary chamber music ensemble was received in silence by Israel’s critical press.

Ensemble Meitar, Israel’s premier contemporary chamber music ensemble will be performing my work:
Loud Music with (only a few) Quiet Bits, in September 2010, at the Israeli Music Festival.

On September 24th, 2008 The Israel Contemporary Players gave a performance of my work: “Music for Eight Instruments”, as part of the Israeli Music Festival. The performance was conducted by Nizan Leibowitch after I revised the work for the instrumental combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn in F, vibraphone, two violins and cello.

My solo piano album – “Seeing Sky” – is now available as a digital download from CD Baby.