I've recently been purchasing/downloads for Kim Cascone, Alva Noto,
12K etc
on emusic.
If it's something I really want, I don't have a problem paying for
it. I
would love the packaging sure
but I end up getting more songs for the dollar when I dont have to
pay for
the packaging and shipping (and you
don't have to wait). I can see why this distribution is doing quite
well.
cheers!
On 3/10/06, Revolution #9 <hendrix@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
as I already pointed out, there can be no major turn-arounds in
culture
perception until major turn around in global economic system....
if culture industry is just one branch of world capitalist system,
then
action must be took towards the whole, not towards its one part...
we all know or guess wrong and harmful influences of "mass
culture", of
its ideologies and its system of values, its ways of functioning...
that's the reason why we are now on this list, although with various
musical/cultural/political preferences...
all we are (I am) saying is that all this "net" phenomenon: copyleft
(against "copyright"), net labels, free downloads, new forms of
distribution
- are just potential markers of what is possible if once socio-
economical
base of world society is changed...
this phenomenon brings new ways of approaching culture, of
deliberating
culture (music): its purpose and its role...
it is powerful social declaration....as experimental music itself
is -
powerful, progressive social declaration that defies mystifications,
simplifications and always is on a - search...
I see this topic inseparably connected to the discussion that was
led on
last year's Erstquake 2 festival in NYC...
there was a forum day where Keith Rowe, Jullien Ottavi and Dion
Workman
spoke about "new forms of distributing experimental music"...
Ottavi himself is occupied with investigation of perception of a
commodity
which contains "experimental music" on it...
like cd-media...I will supply links soon...
it is pretty logic step forward for experimental music; on its way of
subversion of common/traditional perception and experience of
music - it
came to this phase,
which yet has to develop....
d.
p.s.
one more time - www.mattin.org
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