http://gonze.com/blog/2007/11/12/music-is-free/ internet music technology Tue, 15 May 2012 15:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://gonze.com/blog/2007/11/12/music-is-free/comment-page-1/#comment-360 gurdonark Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:21:10 +0000 http://blog.gonze.com/2007/11/12/music-is-free/#comment-360 To follow on your edit--the challenge now is to move from "cracking" culture to "creative" culture and "sharing" culture. Instead of trying to figure out how to copy someone else's fish, the chance arises for people to become creative participants as artists and as listeners in their own right. The challenge remains, I believe, getting people to put down the nets hauling away the old culture and become fishers of this new culture. To follow on your edit–the challenge now is to move from “cracking” culture to “creative” culture and “sharing” culture. Instead of trying to figure out how to copy someone else’s fish, the chance arises for people to become creative participants as artists and as listeners in their own right. The challenge remains, I believe, getting people to put down the nets hauling away the old culture and become fishers of this new culture.

]]> http://gonze.com/blog/2007/11/12/music-is-free/comment-page-1/#comment-361 gurdonark Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:29:59 +0000 http://blog.gonze.com/2007/11/12/music-is-free/#comment-361 I agree. This whole technological revolution is useless if all it will amount to is the enhanced ability to misappropriate mainstream culture. It is as if everyone suddenly got the ability to play guitar like Hendrix, but only wanted to play covers of "Purple Haze" in shows at the Holiday Inn. The sharing culture "must" mean more than merely enhanced ability to pirate Britney Spears, if a really visionary new way to experience music is going to arise. I agree. This whole technological revolution is useless if all it will amount to is the enhanced ability to misappropriate mainstream culture.
It is as if everyone suddenly got the ability to play guitar like Hendrix, but only wanted to play covers of “Purple Haze” in shows at the Holiday Inn. The sharing culture “must” mean more than merely enhanced ability to pirate Britney Spears, if a really visionary new way to experience music is going to arise.

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