Re: Brian Eno about recorded music

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Of course the guy is talking about the praxis of distributing recorded
music by mechanical pods, as the Vinyl Disc and the  Compact Disc are.
I totally share Eno's view since almost a decade back. No matter what
you may prefer for yourself, the market is just dying. Today one must
regard it ultimately heroic, alternativel just plain stupid, to make
CD's as business.  Why on earth would people want "physical holders"
for music when music can be streamed right into you preferred
listening device? The interest for recorded music seems as healthy as
ever among consumers, but not for recordings locked into a physical
holder. And since (1) less people are buying CD's, (2) the general
taste in music has widened and (3) musical genres (possible markets)
are diverting and multiplying explosively the option to sell enormous
numbers of physical copies of a recording is obsolete.

The live scene is reported as increasing too, as I hear from most 
countries.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:25 PM, murkie <sinister_footwear@yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> I think what he meant was the end of the artifact (CD), not recording
> itself.
>
> m.c.
>
> ________________________________
> From: chris@christojota.de [mailto:chris@christojota.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:11 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight
> Subject: Re: Brian Eno about recorded music
>
> Don´t agree with Eno. I want to sit on my sofa listening
> to Ambient music records and relax...
> What else (apart from MAKING music) can I do?
> The only good thing with no more recorded music is, people
> had to go to concerts, which might prevent us poor musicians from 
>playing in
> front of a 10 people audience...
> (don´t wanna start another "sense of live-music - discussion" too).
> www.christojota.de
> www.myspace.com/christojota
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fabio_A
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:42 PM
> Subject: OT: Brian Eno about recorded music
> I got this by the ambient list.
> Just to share with some Eno's addicted, as I am.
> Hope it doesn't fire up the stealing music debate...
>
> fabio
> www.eterogeneo.com
>
>
> "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who
> made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason
> why anyone should have made so much money from selling records
> except that everything was right for this period of time. I always
> knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's
> running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way
> things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if
> you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used
> as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you
> were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be
> stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate - history's moving along.
> Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will
> replace it."
>
> (Brian Eno 2010-01-17 The Guardian)
>