[microsound] an age of immaterial reproduction

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

i am hopefully not in the minority with the cry of no
more music for capital...jeff gburek

http://www.mattin.org/desetxea.html


> 
> you idea that anyone who would like to compose music
> and earn kind of  
> a living off it should be forced to sell various
> forms of meaningless  
> plastic riff-raff is (excuse me for saying what i
> think here) idiotic.
> 
> 
> 
> 8 mar 2006 kl. 07.33 skrev Graham Miller:
> 
> > a business model for the future of all music
> artists and an age of  
> > infinite downloadable reproduction:
> >
> > 1) a live experience cannot be recorded, even if
> it is a recording  
> > of a live event. the old 'you had to be there to
> believe it' saying  
> > will continue to pay musicians. but they have to
> be performers and  
> > they have to make performance an experience worth
> paying for... not  
> > the usual laptop bullshit... the old walter
> benjamin idea of 'aura'  
> > will become even more important and intrinsic to
> an artist's  
> > financial well-being.
> >
> > 2) peripheral crap, like t-shirts, hats, pins, and
> limited edition  
> > posters... *material* souvenirs of that live
> experience. the  
> > rolling stones have got this down to a science.
> look at how a band  
> > like phish succeeds (they're millionaires) in a
>

j.ff gbk

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