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Saturday, 10 January 2004
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More about the same.... If I had a music publishing business I would sell it. On one hand I think that the sharing has got to end, otherwise the music industry as we know it will end. Then on the other hand, maybe a better market structure will replace it. I don't feel confident of the latter, I don't feel confident of the new market structure because I believe that stealing is wrong and downloading (without paying) is stealing. I don't believe good things come from stealing. Fred • 1/10/04; 1:50:13 AM OK, I didn't want to spend so much time typing tonight, but some of y'all's posts need to be answered:
Fred, I suspect you haven't read any publishing or recording contracts, you know very little about the industry, but you have a strong belief in what you perceive as being right. That's all good, but let's look at this together:
1. Many older musicians have recently started to make some money from their works because people found them through file-sharing and asked for them at the local record shop. Until then they received no airplay, because we all know that the big corporations have killed radio. Their CDs were not stocked - because we all know Wal-Mart and all of the other large chains only stock a little more than the top 100 Billboard releases. They were not wanted by he record companies because they didn't have a face for videos or simply couldn't dance. What you denounce so quickly on moral grounds, was a welcome new life for some artists.
2. It is not stealing...it's taking a peak...I have received files of songs I did not pay for - and if I liked the music I bought the CD. I have been exposed to more cool music than I could have ever found on my own, since radio has not been a good source in about a decade, and I still spend the same of money on CDs annually - I just buy less crap.
3. Many musicians feel that anything is better than the current structure.
4. Personally, I don't want to deal with another record company or publisher. My path is clear and simple. I hope to reach people via the net and live concerts. I will sell albums and will lure people to our site with free downloads. Unfortunately this is all going to take time, because a great deal of my fans are still looking in old-fashioned record stores for a new album.....But eventually I hope to not have to deal with mass-produced CDs...instead I would love to do the bulk of selling my music via paid downloads like iTunes, and concentrate on limited edition art packages with music (CDs or whatever the medium will be). I realize that working outside the established biz, without a regular publisher (and their connections) and without a regular record company (and their deals with radio for example) I will have a hard time making my new business work. I am perfectly resigned to walk away from all of this in a couple of years if it indeed does not work out. But, as I see it, Nouveau Flamenco was borne out of experimentation in 1989 and experiment I must, whether I experiment with Dance rhythms (Euphoria in 1995 + Nouveaumatic last year), or use a laptop on stage, or currently work on a CD using no synths or midi at all...in the end it either works or does not...if it does, I will be happy, and if it does not - I know that I tried and that will make me happy...
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Sony, copying and other crap So isn't is ironic that sony would want my money from the sales of these products yet wants to make their technology illegal, this came to my attention because I receive their catalog every few months and in the middle of their battle against downloading movies etc. I could not believe they would send me a catalog with an offer for their latest dvd copier, now what the hell am I gonna do with those copies? I think you can argue left and right aboout morality in cyberspace, but there shouldn't be much of an argument about who the real crook is...buy a sony computer but don't use it to download sony music or movies, buy a sony dvd burner but only make copies for yourself because $600 for the burner and $20 for the movie is not enough...Franklyn • 1/9/04; 6:21:31 PM Well, Franklyn, I have to disagree with you. Sony still makes a huge effort to stop people from copying anything. But they have to keep with every other computer manufacturer or face loosing more market-share. Why do you think Apple created the iPod, the perfect mp3 Walkman before Sony, who built the first Cassette-Walkman and the first CD-Walkman? Because Sony Music and Sony Publishing forced Sony Electronics to NOT RELEASE an mp3 player. I do not envy Sony their position. They constantly have to balance their very different interests...on the other hand maybe Sony will find the solution.....many guys in Sony Electronics are envious of Apple and would love to create heir own version, which would probably rock, but won't see the light until.....
In the early nineties we had to use grey-import Japanese DAT recorders in studios, because the electronics companies, the publishers and politicians all freaked out about the possibility of making a digital copy - but somehow studios got their hands on Japanese DAT machines and we all used them and loved them....
Here, folks, is the bottom line. Eventually, and I am talking in 50-100 years (if the planet has survived), most items will be made in your home. You want a hammer, you find a recipe on the net and after paying a license fee you will download the recipe and stick it in your matter compiler where you will find your hammer a while later. You see, music and film is already digitized and we are blazing the path - or rather patter around in the dark looking for a solution - in how to deal with copying. The companies making tools will come up against this a few decades from now....as usual the arts show the way to the rest of life....Life imitates Art - that's the way it has always been.
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Inspiration and Writing Yep! and I guess that the mood, and the inspiration must also be right before you start. . .or does this come naturally as you after a few notes/ chords? Flavio A. Manfredi Lebrao • 1/9/04; 6:19:23 PM A few times I have made use of colored light....if a musician seems to be lagging behind the beat more than I would like him to, I have been known to bath him in red light...if he is ahead of the beat I use blue light. In general I think music can create its own atmosphere, but it is nice to start by setting a mood.
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China: Buildings 
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My brother ca. 1992 
It seemed funny at the time.....
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The Decline of Fashion Photography: An Argument in Pictures is an engaging Slate photo-essay -- engaging enough to hold my attention even though I have little interest inj fashion, photography, or fashion photography.
via [BoingBoing] Excellent photo-essay. Great choice of photos and quotes. I like this sentence by Nick Knight, “If you want reality, why don’t you look out of the window?” Here is another quote:Photographers in the past tended to use models who seemed confident, intelligent, and sophisticated. Lisa Fonssagrives, Penn’s wife, model, and muse, epitomized a woman of great strength and dignity. You didn’t just want to wear her clothes; you wanted to be her. Contrast that with this:Today, 30 years into feminism, we have models who look not just weak and unsophisticated, but also dumb and victimized. Academic feminists haven’t complained because the models are supposedly playing a subversive role and subversion is inherently politically correct. Moreover, many of the young photographers are female. But now we’ve moved into “fashion vérité” and the models still look stupid. Is this how women in fashion see themselves? Maybe we are in a visual (and musical) phase of being lost and overwhelmed by the flood of images and sounds and alienated by the rhetoric that comes along with them, i.e. you should like this because it is PC...
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Moon over Santa Fe - setting around 5:30am 
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Sounds like we're not the only ones who were less than impressed with Apple's new iPod mini. Alex Salkever of BusinessWeek complains that the new player just isn't small enough or cheap enough to merit buying instead of a regular 15GB iPod and that Steve Jobs has made a serious misstep... [Gizmodo] Excatly.
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