Comments on: Trent Reznor On Free Music

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:05:27 +0000

The “Art” in music is the ability to touch someone with a sound or an idea or a vibration… that they would like for you to repeat. And ultimately they like it so much that they… the listener will exchange something that they hold dear… either money or whatever the medium of exchange may be… and you are both made better by the experience of the interchange. The digital file is not the art… it is a snapshot of the “art”… from which the artist should be compensated… but it is not practical ..yet… any more than it would be to compensate a painter for a snapshot of one of his paintings… not that it shouldn’t be possible… it just isn’t yet… some day it may be possible to be compensated for someone playing your “art”… but the age of digital copies has outrun the ability for artists to keep track of their fans… A bootleg song is the same as a bootlegged piece of software… piracy in both cases but songs are too hard at this time to keep track of who plays and how many times … one plays…

By: synthhead

synthhead — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:28:59 +0000

mino71 - the state of digital music raises a question - what’s really the “art” in music?

Is it the digital file, which can be reproduced infinitely at minimal cost?

Is it the act of creation? The live performance?

Digital music may force our ideas about these things to evolve.

By: mino71

mino71 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:59:35 +0000

spot on

so many “artists” these days value their “art” so little that they throw it away. (unfortunately, not in the bin, where most of it belongs.)

have some self-respect, people !