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I respect your thought, but my intent was not to throw a random incendiary statement out there. I am saying that this is not "a new way to market music" becaus
by jpwagner 17y ago
I respect your thought, but my intent was not to throw a random incendiary statement out there. I am saying that this is not "a new way to market music" because it is not a scalable model. It is one man who (albeit with a lot of smart effort and innovation) is selling a packaged instrument so that you will also receive his music.
It's not like interesting album art that comes with his CD, it is actually unclear which one is the draw? Actually it is clear since it's priced at $50, it's the theremin.
I'm more commenting on calling this "a new way to market physical music". I too think his theremin is "freakin awesome."
- DanielStraight 17y agoI don't know how you intended it, but something about the statement that this is "not a new way to market music because it is not a scalable model" just terrifies me. Heaven help us when creativity becomes a negative thing in music.
- jpwagner 17y agoSorry to back and forth, but you are clearly misunderstanding if you are terrified. If someone wants to build a musical instrument: by all means, that's terrific. As a music lover and instrumentalist, I will buy it and play with it...w/e. But don't write an article telling the world you've figured out how to sell CD's, since that is NOT what you're doing.
- DanielStraight 17y agoI think your added sentence in your edit helped. In any event, this can be abstracted. The way to sell CDs isn't to make theremins... it's to not suck. It's to put passion and energy and effort and time into your projects instead of just grabbing 10 random songs, burning them onto a CD and calling it a day.