RE: [microsound] Re:one copy label

[rob beeston <thrrobb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.discus-music.co.uk/randomworld.htm> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:57:40 +0200> From: fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: 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> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To unsubscribe, e-mail: microsound-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> For additional commands, e-mail: microsound-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> website: http://www.microsound.org> 
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