Re: [microsound] confusion is next

[bryan garcia <brymoxine@xxxxxxxxx>]

it's just that myspace has a stink about it.  when you
associate your art with this stinky distro tool,
you're already debasing it.  thats an opinion.  i dont
think that "using myspace to reach more people " is a
valid argument.   havent you ever been disappointed
when an artist you respect does something really
foolish that debases their art ?  new order once made
a sunkist commercial for god's sake.   any example can
count here.  but the analogy is, that music, art,
film, has got to be properly disributed.  because
there are aesthetic and political and meaningfull
ramifications resulting from those choices.  and there
are so many means of growing your music and art within
a community without having to farm it on myspace.  


--- craquemattic <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've already added quite a few and listened to a
> couple, and accepted  
> quite a few adds from my microsound brethren.
> 
> It's interesting that some members of this list are
> highly aggravated  
> by myspace, and the majority are not.
> 
> Personally I don't have time to really participate
> in forums and  
> blogs and the like, so i guess i'm mostly a
> lurker... but just  
> because they're there doesn't mean you have to use
> them. Use it for  
> what is useful.
> 
> I joined myspace before it became such a hot item,
> primarily because  
> i have no other distribution source for my music
> than online sources,  
> and I immediately saw it as a perfect replacement
> for my mp3.com  
> functionality: reach any audience i possibly can
> with my weird ass  
> musicmaking, essentially for free. Get the sounds
> out there.
> 
> So i never really participated in any 'social'
> aspects of mp3.com  
> (you had the potential to do a LOT of
> cross-promotion and marketing  
> on that site, if you really put some elbow grease
> into it), and don't  
> really do so on myspace either, except for silly
> exchanges with  
> friends and announcements for my weekly DJ gig. It's
> a fun way to  
> discover new things, though.
> 
> The way I look at it, the more people i can possibly
> reach with my  
> music, the better, so why not just let it ride and
> have some music up  
> on myspace for anybody to find? i certainly don't
> *count* on it as a  
> distribution or marketing resource, but i know for a
> fact that random  
> people from all over the world got turned onto my
> stuff just because  
> they happened across it on myspace. I don't get
> nearly the same kind  
> of immediate and personal response from people
> visiting craque.net,  
> but i also don't position it as 'advertising' my
> music.
> 
> For anyone who is really interested, the current
> print issue of Wired  
> has a lot of interesting insight on myspace in
> particular, and its  
> relation to News Corp.
> 
> matt
> 
>
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