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Re: [microsound] Re: commentary on one-copy label
irony is dead
;-)
--- Eric Lyon <audiodidact@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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