cage against the machine
The wait is finally over, instead of buying charity Xmas cards, help CALM – and 4 other charities – and buy the Cage Against The Machine track at itunes here or at Amazon
Please help push this track profits will be split between all the charities, with the larger share going to CALM.
Facebook
Head to www.facebook.com/cageagainstthemachine and ‘like’, then post or ‘tag’(@ sign before the name of the page) in any update on your page mentioning the single and you’re involvement. Please encourage people to head to the page and sign up so that they will be sent a link to the single when it becomes available for download.
Single Art/logo for the campaign is attached, please post this or pictures/articles from the recording on your fan page wall and change your profile picture to the artwork. Also please post pre sale link to wall where poss.
Twitter
Twitter address is www.twitter.com/johncagexmas. Please @johncagexmas when talking about it and encourage your follows to follow it (include in Follow Friday). When talking about the single as we, be sure to include the hash tag #JOHNCAGE to try and get it trending. If posting the FB page too twitter you can use this short link http://bit.ly/433xmasand if poss they should mention John Cage in the body of the tweet (to try and get it “trending”)
Soundcloud
For the remixes of the single CATM are getting established artists to send in 4 minute and 33 second snap shots of their lives. On soundcloud thye’re encouraging other people to do the same. Please mention this where poss and relevant. If you have a html enabled myspace/website you can host a small soundcloud dropbox for people to send their remixes.
Also you may like the remix page – http://soundcloud.com/remixagainstthemachine – with Fake Blood, Alex Metric, Hot Chip, Aeroplane amongst many of the people doing remixes of the track, well 4’33” of their life anyway.
Website Online 433 Installation
From Monday 13th December at 4:33 pm and 4:33 pm local time globally, Kilford will curate an online installation of his 4’33” music painting that he created during the recording of Cage Against The Machine. The painting (which is void of paint) will automatically be exhibited on www.themusicpainter.com for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
The installation will allow people to view the painting as they listen to their purchased Cage Against The Machine music and technical instructions are provided so any websites that wish to replicate the installation and show support visually for Cage Against The Machine can do so by downloading a zip file from www.themusicpainter.com/433
The video is now on the Guardian website here and you can watch the track being made.
Please support all the above and help us get the single to Number 1 this Xmas and support the charities the best we can, spread the word.
