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what do we do without napster?
napster was a file-sharing program that built a community of cheapskates,
music lovers and fickle taste testers together to rebuild the communal experience
of sharing music. while napster was essentially shut down for easing the traffic
of copyrighted material, i believe, as well as many others, that it's spirit will live
on because it has saved music again.
what's the best way to get someone interested in your music? how do you pull
a person out of their world for a moment and unlock the door into a shared
experience with what you wish to express? get them to listen to it. perhaps they
will buy it if they want to hear more... maybe they'll come to you personally to
play it again... or maybe they'll flatter you through mimicry or with their personal
touch to your creation.
music lives in a system where the observer cannot be left out of the picture.
within the frame of music, its art is collaborative for it loses its power when
it loses the connection between its world of sound and the observer's world
of emotion and experience. music needs you.
"no one suggests that because atoms are mostly space, we can shuck the electron
shells and do away with occupying space altogether. yet the cultural contexts and
technological histories in which cellular automata theories are embedded encourage
a comparable fantasy--that because we are essentially information, we can do away with
the body."
--kateherine hayles, how we became posthuman (p 12)
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