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

[Owen Green <o.t.green@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Praemedia wrote:

> There is only so much one can tackle in a single
> e-mail. But more precisely to your point there will be
> no practical measure of the difference between the two
> without the residue of history. IMHO.

Perhaps, but it's your assertion that the residue of history can only 
have significance in the form of (commercially exchanged) recordings 
that I disagree with.

> > Also, it ties access to 
> > the net to musicians' making money off the net,
> > which I don't think is a 
> > given, 
>
>
> True. But access to the net is not a right or a given
> (people tend to forget that). this is true on both
> platforms of 'the net' - which are distinctly
> different - that is, 'access to' and 'space within'.
> Both of those things do have to do with money. 

They do, and there is a substantial portion of the planet without 
telephone access, let alone net access. They still make music though.

> We already work
> longer and harder for our necessities 

We seem to have more and more necessities as well. I'm not sure though, 
that this demonstrates a /need/ for archival of music in a commercial 
form, for example.

> This I will have to disagree with you on. Though there
> wilol always be to some extent things like shareware,

And open-source efforts that match or surpass their commercial counterparts.

> one would not have anything near the technological
> advances one has today (especially very recently in
> the software industry) without greed and money hungry
> companies playing a role. 

 - We wouldn't have an internet at all without the publicly funded 
programs that did the initial research.
 - If we're all faced with the choice of labour or die, then, yes, much 
more productivity will tend to come from the labouring, as opossed to 
the, um, dead :)

Still, net or no net, I'm still not convinced that music /needs/ 
archival, whatever positive side-effects it may have.

> Saying that music production, distribution, cd
> manufacturing, the idea of the 'label' is evil 

Which I haven't done.



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