Comments on: This my friends, is the new CD http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/09/01/this-my-friends-is-the-new-cd/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:16:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding By: BASIC http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/09/01/this-my-friends-is-the-new-cd/#comment-191698 BASIC Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:12:13 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/09/01/this-my-friends-is-the-new-cd/#comment-191698 I love what technology has done for music: artists and fans. As an electronic musician, I can make music on a $3000 set up (much of it freeware programming languages or apps) to achieve results that would have cost $20,000 in a studio environment 10-15 years ago. Then I can slowly build a little following by playing shows, meeting people and networking online. I can score my friends' 30 minute art films that draw 200 people in an art gallery that they made with $100. I can produce cd's for $1 and sell them direct or on friends' website stores or just sell mp3's direct. This incredibly inspiring paradigm has created scores of artists that can make a living on their music and less studio mutant artist-products that can make millions. The digital age has put publishing and distribution power to whoever wants it bad enough. I love what technology has done for music: artists and fans. As an electronic musician, I can make music on a $3000 set up (much of it freeware programming languages or apps) to achieve results that would have cost $20,000 in a studio environment 10-15 years ago. Then I can slowly build a little following by playing shows, meeting people and networking online. I can score my friends’ 30 minute art films that draw 200 people in an art gallery that they made with $100. I can produce cd’s for $1 and sell them direct or on friends’ website stores or just sell mp3’s direct.

This incredibly inspiring paradigm has created scores of artists that can make a living on their music and less studio mutant artist-products that can make millions. The digital age has put publishing and distribution power to whoever wants it bad enough.

]]> By: brenDAMN http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/09/01/this-my-friends-is-the-new-cd/#comment-191663 brenDAMN Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:51:33 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/09/01/this-my-friends-is-the-new-cd/#comment-191663 I was just thinking about this yesterday... I remember going to the record store and getting pumped just because a favorite band had a SINGLE coming out, not just an album. And that single just made me want that album even more... I remember turning on the radio and taping the first airing of a single since I wouldn't be able to buy it for another week or two... All this is missing from this new digital world. And you're right, these new marketing experiences are definitely creating that drive, and that excitement for a CD that has been missing the past few years. These things make you feel involved in the music again, instead of just feeling entitled to it, which is how I think a lot of us have started feeling in the digital age. I was just thinking about this yesterday… I remember going to the record store and getting pumped just because a favorite band had a SINGLE coming out, not just an album. And that single just made me want that album even more… I remember turning on the radio and taping the first airing of a single since I wouldn’t be able to buy it for another week or two…

All this is missing from this new digital world. And you’re right, these new marketing experiences are definitely creating that drive, and that excitement for a CD that has been missing the past few years. These things make you feel involved in the music again, instead of just feeling entitled to it, which is how I think a lot of us have started feeling in the digital age.

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