Tuesday, October 21, 2008

how to justify interactive music forms

imvho it'll be a combination of:

1- new delivery mechanisms and formats which maintain creator identity of component parts.

2- automated systems which use AI to track shared media and report back, either directly to the artist or to something like paypal,
i.e.: fully automated micro and nano-economies designed to ensure proper credit.
[in other words - if i create a drumloop which is used in someone's song, every time someone 'buys' or 'rents' that tune, i get a few nano-cents. if it's distributed free of charge, i get 'whuffie'

3- a 'walled garden' approach to creative content, i.e. virtual 'club' environments which limit distribution of said formats above, possibly restrict distribution to 'rendered' and static forms, such as mp3s...

4- a subculture of endusers who _willfully reject_ popular entertainments such as Britney Spears. in much the same way that we have 'hip hop' fans and 'country' fans today, we'd probably have 'creative commons hip hop' fans and 'mashup country' fans who are allied to specific 'accumulator' websites and online 'media stations', themselves yet to be invented, i think...

1 comment:

Cat said...

Great overview lx...right on the mark!

As you've said before, nothing all that new here but so far I've not seen all of this in one site and certainly not done well and most importantly...a lot of apps are forgetting to make it fun & user friendly.