10.1.10

Promising leads from websites and concepts

I have been thinking about different websites lately. All the ones that have interested me or that I have come across and thought would be useful in either developing and idea or using in the execution of a project. A lot of them have to do with music and I am excited by ideas related to the potentials that exist today for making and sharing music. Since there are so many things that disgust and disappoint me about the way the music industry operates, I find it comforting and inevitable that there are now starting to be more solutions for these problems. Thankfully, artists since the birth of underground punk sensibilities and DIY attitudes came about and now artists like Trent Reznor and Radiohead have made progress with internet and digital music disbursal to cut out of the unjust control that the music industry asserts over music. Every day it gets easier for the average person to create and record music on their own computer and then find tools to spread their music on their own. This way those who truly care about music and not just pocketbooks and numbers can share and explore music the way that this process should take place. This makes me smile.

Links that further ideas or facilitate project concepts:
I am intrigued by the ability of internet users to have control over the content they consume.
http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/sponsors/punisher/punisher.html

I am plagued by issues of the need for labels and ambiguity in genre definition. This website helps with that and also the discovery of new music besides sites like Pandora.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=73:20

Virtual Drumkit? Good idea.


There is software and hardware that is easy to find for all sorts of applications and technological issues. Converting vinyl to digital media is just one of such concerns.
http://www.nch.com.au/golden/index.html

Recording forum helps discover solutions with music difficulties.
http://www.recordingeq.com/tipcurr.htm

The pocketpod is a pretty cool device and probably one of the best gifts I have been given.
http://line6.com/pocketpod/

This is an interesting interactive website with unique potentials for composition through preset formulas.
http://www.grotrian.de/spiel/d/spiel_win.html

Not a groundbreaking concept, but it can stimulate thought.
http://www.mix.dj/
some cool reference tools
http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm
http://www.chordbook.com/guitarchords.php

this site is kind of like a myspace or similar forum that helps find opportunities for live venues and other musical avenues.
http://www.reverbnation.com/

This one has some good opportunities for music distribution online without a record label.
http://www.tunecore.com/

Some useful links for development and remixing of music.
http://www.jamglue.com/
http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm

I hope that by gathering these up and considering them together I will better be able to gauge the ideas that normally float around in my brain at speeds far too fast for consideration. I think that by compiling them and looking at the tendencies in my interests will help direct me or and least get a better idea of what sort of project I would be most interested in pursuing. Then I can revisit them later and see how my thoughts have diverged from the point of these references.
IHRTLUHC
Jordan Severson

1 comment:

  1. The "long tail" idea you mention rearranges our conceptions of success and artistic production, e.g. that almost all music or video uploaded will find an audience, even if it is only one person and that these small audiences combined outnumber the "mass audience" for more commercial music/art.

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