I imagine the 'folk' culture of playing to a camera in your kitchen/computer room, whatever, will continue, and yes, we will have posh promo videos from 'signed' artists and would-bees, especially young recently-qualified students looking to make their mark. The casual viewer can look forward to a lot more videos.
I haven't quite reached a million hits (wow!) but the number of plays far outnumbers the number of CDs I've sold, or mp3 files downloaded. It is the primary medium for reaching people. For those of us interested in sound, this is not a good thing as the sound tends to be poor, and usually played on crap computer speakers. I remember reading about some studies a computer science lab had done on audience perception at a classical concert. 90 per cent was visual. Only 7 percent was aural. And of that 7 per cent, 83 per cent was given to the obvious mistakes! It is little wonder videos are so popular, and why some artists want to hide their mistakes... Rob PS David, glad you liked my De Visee! I can't play it now, so it's good to have a reminder! Proof for my grandchildren :-) -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
