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This piece speaks of the democratization of the access to electronic music, but fails to properly address the democratization of its production. It is mentioned
by norswap 16y ago
This piece speaks of the democratization of the access to electronic music, but fails to properly address the democratization of its production. It is mentioned, but there is no suggestion that it may affect the sales average per producer.
Its basic supply/demand imho : internet brings perhaps a tenfold increase in electro demand, but also a hundredfold (or more if you count in the likes of http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/ http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/) increase in production.
There is also that, while demand rose, I don't believe that the core group that would buy the music if they couldn't get it for free augmented that much. Those are typically the people who pay for vinyls and for live performance nowadays.
- leviathant 16y agoI posted a comment on this page when it was originally published, pointing out that his analogy to political science misses the mark - it's not democratization, it's full on marxism. The means of production (and distribution) have rather suddenly become accessible to the workers. This guy's rant is just another example of someone in the traditional music industry not quite getting it.
- hugh3 16y agoThat's not really what Marxism is about. Marxism is about the workers taking over the one big factory from its owners, not about someone inventing an efficient cheap small-scale factory so that all the workers go home and become small businessmen. Democratisation isn't really the right word either, of course. It's more like the Industrial Revolution in reverse -- increasing technology shifts production back from huge centralized facilities to one-man operations.
- radiowave 16y agoReverting to a cottage industry.