Extended Amon Tobin, ISAM video. This is what I want to do with my life.
Good luck. Keep at it.
Baym’s comment on an article about Spotify’s recent change in policy requiring all new users of the service to create a Facebook account.
This quote from, Ethan Kaplan, a former of SVP of Emerging Technology at Warner Music Group is pretty spot on as well:
“I don’t think its hyperbole to say I was reminded of this (video of Steve Jobs in 1984) when I was watching f8. It seems simple: verbs.But it’s also a statement: Identity is now externalized, completely and holistically.And it will reside on Facebook. And you are either a part of this, or you are not.We’ve now reached our red pill/blue pill moment on the Internet and this will not be as easy of a decision as Mac or PC.”
I recommend Baym’s article, Embracing the Flow for a nice introduction to the impact of emerging technologies on music distribution and the industry at large.
THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
“I love music. I always will. It saved my life, and I bet I’m not the only one who can say that.
What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. at some point it became the business of selling cds in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that’s not bad news for music, and it’s certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.”
David Byrne, Talking Heads
Read the full text Here
Fennesz - Vacuum
He plays tonight at the Union Chapel
Excellent set. Worth watching again.Nosaj Thing - Dj set (Live on KEXP)
Illusio is an open source digital musical instrument that allows the control of real-time recorded loops through collaborative performances based on relationships between sketches and sounds, intended to be ludic and playful.
Developed in Processing and Openframeworks, it mixes multitouch technologies with the interaction metaphor of guitar pedals.
Mariona Ortiz, 2009
Indie in the 1990s
A map of band collaborations within the 1990s independent music scene. From Visual Complexity: Mapping Patters of Information.
Visual Complexity event tonight at 6pm at the New York Public Library! For Details
Awesome, one of my favorite publishers, Princeton Architectural Press has a tumblr
My brother and I were talking about apps recently, and I said, “It’s so easy for people to make music now; it kind of bothers me and brings me down.” And he just looked at me and said, “No, that’s not it at all. Everyone should be able to have the means to make music; it’s one of the greatest feelings in the world. But making good music is not like making great music, and the great music will always remain.
Music is an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living.
Amazon, Dropbox, Google and You Win in Cloud-Music Copyright Decision
The disk drives powering Dropbox, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, and Google Music likely issued a small sigh of relief Monday, after a federal court judge found that the MP3tunes cloud music service didn’t violate copyright laws when it used only a single copy of a MP3 on its servers, rather than storing 50 copies for 50 users.
For Amazon and Google’s nascent cloud music services, the decision clears the way for them to make it easier and faster for customers to use their music services; gives them legal cover to reduce the amount of disk space needed per user; makes it less likely that new customers of their music services will bust through their ISPs data caps when signing up; and clears the way for the companies to let users add songs found on webpages and through search to their lockers with a single-click — all without either being sued by record labels for doing so.
» via Wired
