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

[Ben Neill <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you look at this problem historically, art has always needed some 
form of patronage to support it, and the patronage continually evolves 
with the art.  While all of the new means of disseminating music that 
are being discussed here are great (internet, mp3s, cdrs, etc.), I 
don't think there's anything wrong with artists expecting to make some 
money for what they do.  Bach worked for the church, Haydn the king, 
and Verdi and Wagner had popular audiences in their own times.  In the 
twentieth century commercial recording emerged as a new way of 
supporting music, as did public funding through grants, etc.  Now it 
seems as if both of these means are falling by the wayside, to be 
replaced with what?  I don't like the idea of art being something that 
is done strictly on the "hobby" or amateur level financially.  Art is 
too important of a component in society to be relegated to that 
position.  The idea is that the artist has to beat the game of 
economics somehow, like Duchamp suggested.

Ben 


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