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Re: [microsound] the great depression of experimental music?



on 9/23/04 12:42 PM, john saylor at js@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> hi
> 
> ( 04.09.23 08:56 -0700 ) j.frede:
>> has the CDR killed experimental music labels?
> 
> or the network.
> 
> the economics of music distribution have changed. with formats like
> flac around [to say nothing of the ubiquitous mp3] it is so much easier
> to distribute music over the web, that other ways of doing it just can't
> compare.
> 
> to me, *that* is what's going on. the independents just don't have the
> big guns that the big 5 do- but i've got to think the same thing is
> coming their way.
> 
> it just seems so much better to distribute music this way.
> 
>> or is it the fact that now with the ease of writing music with
>> software, that it takes so little time to get the same effect people
>> spent months working to get with gear before this flood of bedroom
>> composers hit the "market"?
> 
> i think distribution is the key. methods to produce music have been
> changing ever since someone starting humming instead of singing.
> 
>> could this end up causing a massive drought in the experimental music
>> community... or will it mean that the only way to get new music is by
>> downloading it,,,?
>> being a record collector for many,many years this would be tragic to
>> me....
> 
> why tragic? if the music is formost, it will still be available. just in
> a more ephemeral format than before [and music is so ephemeral anyway].
> 
>> i know that we will all/most of us will continue to pursue our work in
>> this field,, out of passion and interest,, but at what point to music
>> careers became music hobbies?
> 
> depends what you mean by hobby.
> 
> if you define a hobby as something that you don't make 'your daily
> bread' from, then prolly more and more musicians will become hobbyists.
> this actually frees up the music, as there is no constraint to make it
> 'marketable'.
> 
> on the other hand, if you mean a hobby as some kind of distraction from
> the main work of your life; i'd agree there are many musical hobbyists.
> [which is good] but there are also musicians who need to work as
> software engineers [and so on] as a hobby in order to do their real work
> of music making. their hobby pays better, but their minds are always on
> the music, and it's the music that makes them want to get up out of bed
> in the morning.


very well said, and answered, i just think this is a very depressing and
whinning topic that leads nowhere.


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