GDAM is a sound-server and client environment.
It is meant to facilitate the making of music.

In particular, the making of free music.

One of the thing gdam enjoys is its ability to recomposite
existing songs.  This ability demands extreme freedom,
for it is no longer possible to exclusively assign rights
to the songs being mixed.

One of the current problems with gdam is that we no longer
have a simple way to attribute rights to songs.
Ultimately we do not have every instrument around, we
must find free sample collections or record our own.
Copyrights leave us on hopelessly complex legal grounds.

This situation is vastly worsened when your song consists
of a composite of just 20 other songs, full of copyrighted
lyrics and beats!  It is intuitively apparently that you
are doing something creative, however, you are undeniably
using the work of others quite a bit, virtually never with
aural credits.

Currently there is no way to make your work free but to
proclaim it as such.  This is inadequate:  it is impossible
to prove that your work does not derive from nonfree
samples.

gdam seeks to contribute to helping tear down these
boundaries eventually.  For now, it just allows you to
have fun and make music.

Our objectives are these.  Please help us if you can,
in any way you can.

But above all, we hope you enjoy your time using gdam.



Best wishes,
the authors of gdam, 2000.
