The Future of Music?
February 10, 2007 by Jo Minor
My band member passed me a good article written by Kevin Kelly some time back, which I completely ignored at the time. I had to dig it out from the darkest corner of my bloated Gmail account.
The article’s main point was that music is so easily available today, that we may all suffer from “too much music”. There’s too many choices we need to make, so maybe the future of music is in finding, categorizing, recommending music to the individual.
It’s called “Where Music Will Be Coming From” and was written for the New York Times. Here are a few interesting possibilities:
* Songs are cheap; what’s expensive are the indexable, searchable, official lyrics.
* On auction sites, music lovers buy and sell active playlists, which arrange hundreds of songs in creative sequences. The lists are templates that reorder songs on your own disc.
* For bands that tour, giving away their music becomes a form of cheap advertising. The more free copies that are passed around, the more tickets they sell.
* Royalty-free stock music (like stock photography), available for any use, takes off with the invention of a great music search engine, which makes it possible to find music ‘’similar to this music” in mood, tempo and sound.
Far fetched? I guess only time will tell..
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