Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.
Maarten Walraven • ✘ The Illusion of an idea - a scaled-down music industry
Musi Won Over Millions. Is the Free Music Streaming App Too Good to Be True?
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There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.
Yash Bagal • A New Funnel for Music
Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,
Oliver Sacks • Musicophilia
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo
Music bypasses our brains and goes straight to our hearts. Auditory (with basis in conversation) hits us different than written (as it requires processing).
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo
Music bypasses our brains and goes straight to our hearts. Auditory (with basis in conversation) hits us different than written (as it requires processing).