A summary of two terrible ideas for saving the music industry (as proposed by virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, in his often-interesting book You Are Not A Gadget).
I have to admit that my love for the music of The Bad Plus is difficult to separate from my love for pianist Ethan Iverson's blog Do The Math, by my estimate one of the very best things online. It doesn't help matters that he reads the same crime novelists I do. When he loses me with musical erudition, I have our shared enthusiasm (mania) for Thomas Perry to fall back on.
Another reason why purchasing those Oyster Cards was a good idea: the cool secret game we didn't realize we were playing.
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In predicting the future of music Lanier writes, "Songles are objects that contain a song and when the songle is in proximity of a device that can play songles, the device can play the song associated with that songle." We already have "songles". They're called records. And the devices that play them are called record players. Duh.
He is suggesting one way for musicians to make money from recordings in an era when the majority of music consumers expect to get everything for free, and I guess he doesn't see the return of vinyl as inevitable.
The blogger doesn't go into a lot of detail, but in his book Lanier suggests these "Songles" could reflect the class of people who listen to different types of music. Example mine, but: cheap friendship bracelets for pop music, expensive diamond charms for classical, say. A distinction this snob appreciated. That said, I agree with you. Duh.
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