Musik Fabrik and Cupchicks?

This is a strange edit to Encyclopedia Dramatica from Musik Fabrik's I.P. address...

Cupchicks

Apparently, someone at Musik Fabrik found a site about "where two ugly chicks make out, and then one of the chicks [censored] into a cup held by the other. They proceed to eat the [censored] out of the cup and then vomit it back" was interesting enough to write an ED article about it.

Those crazy opera queens at MF! Feminists at heart.

Marissa Marchant, JzG, Fred Bauder

Someone at Musik Fabrik does not like Marissa Marchant. Ms. Marchant, the user "Esperanzachick" at Encyclopedia Dramatica is from Musik Fabrik's I.P. address. They added lots of information about you on the article. Just take a look. Is it Paul Wehage? Jean-Thierry Boisseau? Someone else?

Over on the JzG article, this same bloke at Musik Fabrik also wrote:

"JzG likes to suck teat" (with those obligatory Wikipedia Review links that "the fieryangel" AKA Musik Fabrik likes to add)

Musik Fabrik, Paul Wehage and Jean-Thierry Boisseau at Arbitration

The guys at Musik Fabrik hate Wikipedia because they were hauled before a neutral committee of six people who held no previous opinions on this group of musicians and composers, and found that they were rude, insulting, bullying, harassing and trying to use Wikipedia simply to help their own business, which is publishing the work of female composers. Below are the the findings of fact of the six arbitrators:

1. Musik Fabrik

   Musik Fabrik is a music publishing company. Its website is at http://www.classicalmusicnow.com (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

2. User:Musikfabrik

   User:Musikfabrik, which has been banned as a multiuser, or role, account was used by a number of persons associated with Musik Fabrik, including Paul Wehage, the artistic director and main researcher at Musik Fabrik and Jean-Thierry Boisseau. (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

3. Jean-Thierry Boisseau

   Jean-Thierry Boisseau, an associate of Musik Fabrik, edits as Jean-Thierry Boisseau. Until it was banned as a multiuser account he edited as Musikfabrik (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

4. Promotion of Musik Fabrik composers

   Jean-Thierry Boisseau, editing as Musikfabrik has added composers [2] who are listed in the Musik Fabrik catalog Guitar catalog. User Musikfabrik was quite candid about use of Wikipedia articles to promote Musik Fabrik composers [3]. (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

5. Failure of Jean-Thierry Boisseau to assume good faith

   Jean-Thierry Boisseau has failed to assume good faith. See this, third sentence and this. (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

6. Rudeness by Jean-Thierry_Boisseau

   Jean-Thierry_Boisseau has been rude. (4 vote yes, 0 vote no, 2 abstain)

7. Jean-Thierry Boisseau's superior tone

   Jean-Thierry Boisseau has at times taken a superior tone in relation to other editors, Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Jean-Thierry_Boisseau/Evidence#Involved_professionals.2Finformed_amateurs. This may represent a more sophisticated approach, or not, but it irritated other editors. (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

8. The issue of gender bias

   The issue of gender bias in the selection of lists of opera composers was vigorously raised by Jean-Thierry Boisseau by claiming, "it would seem to me to be quite clear that an sexist agenda at work here."[1], [2], [3] (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

9. Women opera composers

   It was determined by the editing process that there were no women opera composers "sufficiently notable to be included in [List of major opera composers],"[1] ("Boisseau's bullying is extroadinary....The fact is that no female opera composers have been as important to the field of opera as the top 30, 50 or even 70 men, according to the majority of secondary sources. I hope this changes in the future, but Boisseau cannot [deny this fact].") (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

10. Outside parties

    Jean-Thierry Boisseau has invited the interest of outside organizations concerned with the advancement of women musicians [5]. (6 vote yes, 0 vote no, 0 abstain)

Paul Wehage and Patricia Adkins Chiti

Paul was banned from putting his website and writings all over Wikipedia. This is what he said about it at The Wikipedia Review, Paul (as The Fieryangel) said this:

I got really mad. And I'm still mad. And I'm not alone. You guys blew it big time with this situation and you've paid for it many times over. [Wikipedia] will never, ever, get EU cultural funding for a Wikipedia project because of this.

Goodness! My guess is that Paul spoke to his friend Patricia Adkins Chiti, who is the President of Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Music. Is Ms. Adkins Chiti that powerful? Perhaps. When The Fieryangel's IP address was found to be originating from Musik Fabrik in Lagny-sur-Marne, The Fieryangel tried to claim that he was in fact a friend who sounded awfully similar to Ms. Adkins Chiti:

Let me start from the beginning: Paul Wehage runs Musik Fabrik music publishing, a publishing company who publishes almost all of the work by Germaine Tailleferre published after her death (ie most of the important works). Paul is a fine saxophonist and has performed extensively in festivals devoted to music by women, especially those organized by the Donne in Musica foundation. I met him in Fiuggi in 1998, where he did ten premières in three days of new music by women written for him. He's a real inspiration for those of us who believe that women's music is important because he puts his money where his mouth is: he plays the music and he publishes it. He's a very close friend, as is his partner, Jean-Thierry Boisseau.

That's an actual post by Paul Wehage as The fieryangel at wikipediareview.com. Here is an article written by Patricia Adkins Chiti talking about the 1998 Donne in Musica festival in Fiuggi.
It's quite possible that Paul Wehage or his boyfriend Jean-Thierry Boisseau did, indeed, turn Ms. Adkins Chiti against Wikipedia, and that she single-handedly got all the member states of the European Union to not do any Wikimedia projects (I wasn't aware they apply for government grants). Here is User:Jean-Thierry Boisseau during the Musik Fabrik Arbitration:

The main authority concerning this issue that I know is Mrs. Patricia Adkins-Chiti, the head of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation [http://www.donneinmusica.org], who has the world's largest library of music by women, who has written books, edited collections of music, produced television series etc. It is difficult for me to bring her into this discussion for several reasons - First of which is that her husband is Gian Paolo Chiti and we publish his music. Patricia is actually kind of upset that her husband has been "nominated for deletion" here, especially with all of the unkind (and unsourced) remarks that were made about him. She's not terribly "pro-wikipedia" at this point...and I don't think that this is going to change.

Paul Wehage Hates Wikipedia

As you can see from proof on this blog post, Musik Fabrik was spamming information about their composer and companies all over Wikipedia in French and English. Companies can't do this or it would be a huge advertising mess. For instance, Musik Fabrik wrote that Jean-Thierry Boisseau and Paul Wehage are the "celebrities of Lagny-sur-Marne", a city of less than 20,000 outside Paris where they live.

Because of this behavior, Musik Fabrik was taken to the highest form of Wikipedia dispute resolution, the Arbitration Committee, where one of the denizens of the opera pages pointed out:

You are a time-wasting troll trying to "game the system" and destroy the list because your self-promotional activities were exposed by the editors of that list. The diff. above is a classic example of your modus operandi. There was NO way that was a "reasonable assumption" to make. You've made lots of assumptions based on little hard evidence about other users, most notoriously accusing Makemi, a woman editor, of "internalised sexism". You merely use such accusations as tools in a power game, expecting people to scurry around trying desperately to prove they aren't sexist or racist at the slightest such allegation even when it's based on zero hard evidence. Weeks of your bullying, harrassment, massive violations of WP policy and arrogant condescension (all documented on the Evidence page) cannot be brushed away by a simple tactical apology. This simply has to be dealt with by ArbCom.

Oh my!

Do You Have Information On Paul Wehage and Musik Fabrik

I am a big fan of Paul Wehage and his lovely, caring and kind personality. If you know Paul, you know exactly what I am talking about. Did you know him in Minnesota, Texas or in Lagny-sur-Marne? Then e-mail me. Did you know him at the University of Texas? Then please e-mail me and tell me stories. Were you in Daniel Deffayet's class with Paul Wehage at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale de Musique de Paris)? Please e-mail me and tell me what Paul was like. Were you in his class at the University of Texas at Austin, or did you work with him?

Have you worked with Paul at Musik Fabrik and was the experience especially memorable? This blog is just getting started, and is more just a collection of links and things. Eventually it will weave tales and bedtime stories of this beautiful human, Paul Wehage, and his tender companion, Jean-Thierry Boisseau.

Gay pornography and Musik Fabrik

Amongst all the women composers, list of opera greats, Arbitration hearings, and listing Paul Wehage and Jean-Thierry Boisseau as "celebrities of Lagny-Sur-Marne" in France, there have also been some curious interests in updating and editing gay-ahem-media articles.

1. Here "someone" from Musik Fabrik removed Gage Powers on January 28 (photo at right) from the "List of male performers in gay porn films. Then they removed him again on February 11. You can visit Gage's website here. I wonder what someone at Musik Fabrik had against the fellow.
2. Here they removed Têtu from the List of men's magazines, stating "Têtu is a gay magazine, not for general audiences". Of course, also on that list, and right below Têtu , was The Advocate, the longest continuously published gay magazine in the world. Further up in General Interest is the UK's Gay Times. Maybe Tetu wrote a bad review of one of Musik Fabrik's artists?

That's not all. A future blog post will explore the writings and an e-mail from a Ms. Jayne Johnston. The e-mail, sent directly to this blog and those of anti-gay "family values" right wingers in the United States like The Lonely Conservative, originated from Musik Fabrik. In it, "Jayne" decries Wikipedia and Wikia, and in doing so equates homosexuals to pedophiles and sexual predators. There is no doubt the sender's IP address is that of...Musik Fabrik. Butt wait: Paul Wehage and Jean-Thierry Boisseau are homosexual lovers!