Interview with Data Alchemist and Author Glenn McDonald
Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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As the internet continues to decentralize culture, letting us choose which streaming services and video games and social media we want to base our lives around, some of the most intoxicating new music is coming from these tiny SoundCloud pockets, which you can only access if you already know to look there. This is music you won’t find in mainstream... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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What’s striking about these internet microcosms is that despite how insular they appear, there are no geographic limits. Online music is both incredibly localized and universal, simultaneously confined to small Discord clubs and capable of being transmitted through electric signals to vibrate speakers around the globe.
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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Ted Gioia on AI's Threat To Music
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about culture cycles
about the danger of caring more about the past rather than the future [are you holding rights? or are you creating what’s next?]
the battle between macro-culture and micro-culture — and while the former is declining, the latter might thrive
“you can’t reduce things to formula”
the difference between art and entertainment
we need mind-expanding experiences
there is a real danger in going full-passive consumption; which is bad for the culture
“i spend more time reading than i do writing” => “any process you have in the world, your output depends on your input”
fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence
now being similar to 1800’s: back then, power went from the industrialists to the creative people
you get luckier if you force yourself out of your comfort zone
what Internet allowed is: direct contact with your audience, your people
I’m not saying that all those ‘underground fringes’ that Anderson celebrated have disappeared—I’m merely claiming that they have less cultural impact than at almost any point in modern history.
Ted Gioia • Where Did the Long Tail Go?
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It’s impressive that in 2022, when it feels like everything we’re doing is being mined, lumped into categories, catapulted back at us in the form of ads and content, the world is being NFT-ified, yada yada yada—that you can still fall down rabbit holes on the internet and discover something no algorithm has found. A sound and scene that’s still lea... See more
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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One such curator is Derrick Gee, a former online radio d.j. who lives in Australia. I first encountered Gee on TikTok and was pulled in by his architect-ish look: thin wireframe glasses and stylishly baggy, often monochrome outfits. He records videos of himself talking into a microphone in a low, soothing voice, breaking down trends in contemporary... See more
Kyle Chayka • The New Generation of Online Culture Curators | The New Yorker
In a SoundCloud landscape teeming with off-the-wall musical experiments, it makes sense that artists are anointing themselves as genre-generators. It’s a way to compete in the attention economy, a tactic to distinguish your sound from what could otherwise be perceived as another set of weird noises in a sea of bizarre bleeps and bloops.
No Bells • Deep-internet bubbles: How microgenres are taking over SoundCloud
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