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Re: [microsound] Re:one copy label
Hallo,
david.microsuoni hat gesagt: // david.microsuoni wrote:
> it seems some people cannot discuss without insulting.... quite sad.
> to answer Frank question : yes it is (my opinion, please don't fire me).
Well, I often cannot discuss without joking a bit, so that's fine. And
it's the internet anyway.
But my question - and I'm of course only riding piggyback on the
question the one copy project itself did ask - my question was meant to
fuel the thinking, about what the concept of a "one copy" can mean in
the age of the digital distribution of digitally recorded music.
In this regard, the One Copy project is quite interesting, in that it
obviously makes people again think and talk about the focus the world
has on distributing music *recordings* and about how this may come to
an end soon.
I had to think of the keynote Miller Puckette gave at the Linux Audio
Conference, where he stressed the point that actually it's impossible to
sell or distribute music, the only thing that can be given away is a
recording of music (or a performance, but that's another story) and this
according to Miller is something different from the music itself. He has
a point here. On one hand it is completely obvious that music is
different from a recording, but OTOH it seems almost surreal when much
of the music discussed not only on this list is produced with and for
loudspeakers. It seems to me the one copy project is trying to transfer
some of the singularity that is music over to a recording of music and
make that recording unique again. But almost by definition a recording
is something invented and used to conserve singular moments through
reproduction, through copying. The one copy project may be fighting a
heroic final fight, which I'd applaud. But is it a fight for music or
"just" a fight for recorded music?
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht
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