With ringtones and ipod singles taking over, it's hard to believe that vinyl albums were once king of music. So the question remains. Can the album survive in the digital world?
Below are some highlights of an article that talks about the evolution of the album.
As far back as 1997, the advent of digital downloading threw the music industry into a tailspin from which it has yet to emerge — all concerning the album and its future. As technology began allowing for the sharing of digital files across the Internet, the iPod has taken over the industry as consumers sidestep the retail aspect of music distribution.
Today, anyone with a computer can cherry-pick, download, burn a disc, or create personal playlists on an MP3 player. With the iPod taking over, conventional modes of music-making and distribution seem suddenly antiquated.
What effect does this have on the album?
Is it now just an artifact of a bygone era? Or is the personal playlist craze another in a long line of passing fads in popular music? And what effect has all of this had on the quality of the music itself?
The key to a successful music industry is to create a marketplace of engaged listeners, surely. For some, the iPod culture has offered an avenue of such engagement.
"The renaissance, if there is to be one, will take an awful lot of work," says Bordowitz. "It will take someone from the new generation to come up with their own generation's 'Dark Side of the Moon' or 'Nevermind.' Something that captures the zeitgeist, something that can't be ignored, that tickles the imaginations of those who hear it enough to inspire them to imitate it.
"I remain cautiously optimistic that this will happen."
This is a great article that's worth a look at. Click here to read all of the article.
[Resource http://www.buffalonews.com/197/story/39697.html]
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In the last 50 years or so, the size of computers have been reduced significantly. But how far can we reduce the physical size of computers whilst add more memory.
Here's an article I read recently that talks about a 'law' of physics (Moore's Law) that says that physical storage components for memory is almost as small as is possible to go.
Whether this will have any major effect (positive or negative) on the music industry, remains to be seen.
As with all technological advances, right from the stone age, things that had never been thought of before could be just around the corner. Possible alternatives like molecular memory and carbon nanotubes could bring new technology that we don't yet know about.
[Resource http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=moores-law-hits-physics-i&chanId=sa003]
technorati tags:internet+music+marketing, internet+music+promotion, market+your+music, music+promotion, music+industry, indie, independent, musician
Here's an article I read recently that talks about a 'law' of physics (Moore's Law) that says that physical storage components for memory is almost as small as is possible to go.
Whether this will have any major effect (positive or negative) on the music industry, remains to be seen.
As with all technological advances, right from the stone age, things that had never been thought of before could be just around the corner. Possible alternatives like molecular memory and carbon nanotubes could bring new technology that we don't yet know about.
[Resource http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=moores-law-hits-physics-i&chanId=sa003]
technorati tags:internet+music+marketing, internet+music+promotion, market+your+music, music+promotion, music+industry, indie, independent, musician
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