[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Where Music Will Be Coming From - Kevin Kelly

["roya.jakoby" <roya@girlfish.net>]

" - to retroactively recontextualize some of the most revolutionary aspects of
digital cultural creation and dissemination by way of a strained antique economic
model."   ?

Oh my... went that text through the Art-O-Matic before it got posted? Is the use
of such secretive language just more interesting, or is it just secretive?

greetings, //roya./



Derek Holzer wrote:

> A quite compelling response to this article showed up on the [microsound] list,
> from Joshua Maremont.
>
> 'scuse my monoculture :)
>
> best,
> Derek
>
> +++
>
> Date:  Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:25:06 -0800
> From:  Joshua Maremont <thermal@boxmanstudies.com>
> To:  microsound <microsound@hyperreal.org>
> Subject:  Re: [microsound] Where Music Will Be Coming From
>
> An interesting read, yes, but the writer seems to couch his quite
> valid reflections and predictions in a commercial-consumer model of
> music which I find limited and backward in its struggle - mirroring
> that of the MP3 and Napster litigations - to retroactively
> recontextualize some of the most revolutionary aspects of digital
> cultural creation and dissemination by way of a strained antique
> economic model.  His analysis is right on the mark until he
> lemming-trots into a wool-over-eyes future in which the current model
> of musicians financially enslaved to a centralized system of
> distribution and patronage is magically metamorphosized into what a
> marketing consultant would surely name a "net-savvy" version of the
> same arrangement (see:  SDMI and subscription downloads).  For me
> this analysis - like those of the entertainment industry plaintiffs
> in soft-music legal actions - misses (or deliberately hides) an
> entirely different future of music in which the laws of musical
> economics are not simply retooled or upturned (remember the New
> Economy?) but completely discredited down to the validity of their
> component terms and concepts.  This other future is one in which
> profit and music are not likely to be mentioned in the same sentence,
> in which music is made by those who now only buy it, and in which the
> source of the audio data is less important than the experience of
> finding and hearing and using it - one in which labels and stars lose
> their centrality and priority and become mere nodes in a system they
> no longer control.  And organs of the ever more loudly creaking
> centralized system - like Yahoo or NTY or Wired - cannot be happy to
> consider such implications of their own irrelevance.  I would retitle
> the article:  Where Corporate Music Will Be Bought From.  I imagine
> few here will be shopping at that mall, except for the occasional and
> covert girl-/boy-band fix.
>
> np - "Vertical Forms" compilation
> --
> Joshua Maremont / Thermal - mailto:thermal@boxmanstudies.com
> Boxman Studies Label - http://www.boxmanstudies.com/
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