Re: [microsound] I want myspace MTV

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(In regard to the MySpace topic)

The only thing that's continually worrying me
is the oversaturation of the musical offer.

It's a difficult ethics issue, since freedom for producing and sharing
music for everyone seems to be the ideal situation. An existing utopia. I
myself try to share all my stuff including software, and encourage other
people to do so.

But on the other hand its incredible how really good music is increasingly
hard to find in this endless and ever-growing ocean of mp3s. Sometimes it
makes you wanna get back to the times when the musician career had
difficult but clearly defined steps, each one of which provided rewards
when achieved.

What do you think?

Hernan

www.cooptrol.com

>
>
>> the allure to be a part of the myspace community is great but
>> ultimately
>> most of the mp3's on myspace are not any better than the  stuff I used
>> to
>> hear on mp3.com -- remember that? I bet most of you  don't...pretty much
>> same crap, different package...
>
> I bet most of us do remember.
>
> Yeah, _plenty_ of crap.
> And plenty of REALLY FANTASTIC stuff too.
>
> I would have to argue that there is more good stuff now, and that it is
> easier to find than it was on mp3.com due to the ability for people to
> interlink.
> No likey, no linkey, you fall under the radar.
>
>> the noise to signal on myspace is also deafening...but that being  said
>> I
>> feel that a page should be created somewhere with all the  microsound
>> members myspace accounts listed...maybe a script that  would take an
>> email, parse the myspace addy and add it as a link to a  page somewhere?
>
> Sounds wise; Myspace, LJ, blog, and homepages under a single artist
> heading
> would be best, methinks.
>
>> final: most of us have had enough of the one liner updates containing
>> the
>> myspace account info...yes, you're cool for having a myspace  account -
>> now let's talk about something more interesting? suggestions:
>
> I find it kind of sad that you (and others) cant think of any other
> reasons
> to add to a perfectly good thread (who else is on myspace?) than to 'be
> cool' or to get around the 'no announce' rule or whatever the elitist
> whine
> of the day is.   Someone asked, the thread took off.  Not like this
> happens
> every single day. Get over it.
>
> Plenty of good came of it, with microsounders crosslinking where they were
> not previously, and listening to each others material in the process.
>
>> - what is the cultural/aesthetic intersection of 'places' like  myspace
>> with 'spaces' like microsound
>
> One such intersection, apparently, is threads like these, where some
> people
> have input (results as above) and others just want to be elitist and whine
> about said input. =/
>
>
>> - and is the 'enabling' power of social networks real or is it simply
>> another sort of commodity sold to us through viral advertising?
>
> Obviously it is both.
> Anyone can use these for their own benefit, basement artist or major
> label,
> teenybopper or old geezer, therefore they are at least benign if not
> beneficail.
> More the point, the market has spoken.
>
> ~ !J!
> http://www.endif.org
> http://www.crunchpod.com
> http://www.thirdwavecollective.com
>
>
>
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