[microsound] Re: commentary on one-copy label

[Eric Lyon <audiodidact@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think onecopy has an ironic charm - it's music playing "hard to get" in
the face of a torrent of immediate digital accessibility to all kinds of
music. But it is merely a gesture, easily subverted by copying the only
onecopy. I also like the idea of zerocopy, and think it has a practical
future. A zerocopy music could be playing your piece one time for the one
intended listener, then destroying the only copy along with all source
recordings. And most of us have already experienced some form of zerocopy.
Did you ever have a hard drive crash and lose some recordings? Did you ever
improvise for others or for yourself without recording it? Zerocopy helps us
value music in a way that onecopy or infinitecopy can't.

Cheers,

Eric