Fabio Pesari <[email protected]> writes: > On 02/20/2016 02:25 AM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> > I don't doubt there are good musicians releasing music on it, however > most of those artists are necessarily derivative of influential nonfree > music: for example, I can't imagine someone who makes progressive rock > and isn't in any way influenced by Pink Floyd, Genesis or Yes. Try to live in this connected world and *not* be influenced by anything which has been done before in some way. I don't know who I heard saying this, but in the beginnings of the last century you could meet musicians in some parts of the USA in remote mountain villages who never heard any other musician before and had only their own, original ideas. Now, well.. you find the "everything is a remix" case very often. It's not entirely a bad thing, I like lots of specific musicstyle, one of them is music which is based on remixing and destroying/doing what you want with it and adding your own style to it: breakcore. > In short, especially if you are a musician, you will have a hard time > connecting with other people with similar musical tastes if you only > listen to music released on Magnatune. I'm not sure wether I can agree or disagree, so I think this is an added statement. Even if you totally manage to avoid all kinds of external,subconscious influences like public radio, people driving by with music too loud, your parents/friends playing records, etc etc, your taste builds on your experience you made in selectively listening to multiple sources of music throughout your life. And it's very different from person to person, I've met people who do not like music at all, and I've met people who can't stand musical pieces being longer than 5 or 20 minutes. What I wanted as a musician (dormant projects currently) did not (only) get shaped by what I listened to as a child. My taste is diverse and wandered off from some extensive listening phases to certain music I no longer listen in my "adult" life to something entirely different or being a result from what I listened to earlier. Selective, conscious and unconcious media input. Yet I had (and have) a hard time finding someone with the exact same interest I have who also happens to play fitting instruments. You can't avoid to consume copyright, but copyright is the problem, it's as difficult as trying to escape capitalism in a capitalist society system. It's there, it will disappear eventually, but as long as it's the ruling force it's hard to see a way out. Alternatives for creative people who want to make a living off their art (always very hard to manage without exploiting yourself) are growing again, that's the positive thing. Like the counter project against the GEMA in germany, the C3S ( https://www.c3s.cc/en/why-we-need-an-alternative-to-gema/ ) which is a good thing to have if you are not into diy culture etc. A potential step against DRM encouraging platforms for artists is also involved in something I want to design over the next years. You will have a hard time enforcing certain free licenses on people who have a hard time making money, because people think they don#t deserve income because "that's not a real job", but if we can work towards a change in that way (more ethical consumers, pay-what-you-can, etc), with a multitude of tools, it will get to creative people at some point, because creative people are consumers and people who seek new input too. Nobody likes major labels or rip off platforms, But not everyone is a born manager for the diy style. just my 2cents, free associating. > Back to Magnatune, if you only listen to music released on it, you won't > have much of a cultural life. If that has to be case, you might as well > go all the way and listen to libre music exclusively, and prevent this > bullshit from happening in the future. > -- ng
