Music Tech / Future of Music
by sari and · updated 2mo ago
Music Tech / Future of Music
Dutch startup to test hearing via brain-computer interface
Maarten added 2mo ago
This might well become a new music format - your brain
- Streaming offers the tantalizing illusion that these laborious steps have been eliminated by technology. But really they haven't. Music is an attention economy. The dominance of the biggest attention companies used to be reinforced by constraints of physical distribution, but it mostly survives the format shift. Most of the songs on the biggest pla... See more
from Prehistory
Faith Hahn added 3mo ago
- The reason that per-artist subscriptions don’t make sense for fans is basic maths: multiply the number of artists you really care about by the subscription fees and the costs soon seem unrealistic, resulting in fans investing in one artist at the expense of another. And once listeners are locked in, there is a level of guilt associated with cancell... See more
from James Blake’s music subscription model is a fantasy that disadvantages fans and musicians by Tom Vek
Faith Hahn added 3mo ago
Maarten added 4mo ago
Music, at its most foundational level, is not an economy in many places, because there is no infrastructure to support it.
Maarten added 4mo ago
a more artist-led approach to the immense wealth of our own human collective intelligence.
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