Re: [microsound] Physical Media - aura in an age of immaterial reproduction

[cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

You are right, the need to make money and the need to make music or
seperate. I'm quite sure that, despite first getting paid to perform (jazz
piano) at age 15, overall I've LOST money, and continue to lose it, making
music. It's my passion, and I don't intend to stop!

Making money, however, is an even greater need than music because I have
to live somewhere, and I have to eat. I'd very much like, however, to be
able to have a place to sleep and eat, based on my own labor as a
musician. Whereas, currently I work a day job in an office.

On a social level, assume as a thought experiment that capitalism has been
abolished. I think here is where some very interesting, but little
addressed, questions arise:
Is musical work a form of productive labor? In a just society, should
people be granted some form of compensation, in exchange for devoting
their lives to producing music? Who would decide which people should get
such support, and which people will only do it as a hobby? Should artists
that do this for a living, have some obligation to sometimes produce works
of a social or public nature? Can these things be managed, without some
kind of beauracracy? Would we want some kind of limited market still?
Voting? Expert panels? What?

~David

> hi
>
> On 3/9/06, mat.the.w <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The discussion (IMHO) should really be about the larger Music Industry,
>> and
>> new ways of distributing your music without the *need* to make money
>> from
>> it.
>
> who has this need? is it you, the artist? is it someone[s] else? is it
> both?
> [note: rhetorical]
>
>> As a corollary, the need to make music that isn't dependent on a
>> financial gain.
>
> i don't think the need to make music has much to do with money at all.
> i think being alive has something to do with money, but not music
> particularly. if you have no money, you can still make music.
>
> so i think of it more that the amazing enabling technology for
> computer music is readily available [in some cases freely] and it has
> inspired a lot of people. it has also shown a way for people to relate
> to each other outside of the capitalist model [open source].
>
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