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Music is like a rumour

Helsinki reminded me of Hamburg. Maybe is was the lake in the centre or the lack of an Old Town (which was like in Hamburg destroyed in WW2). But most significantly I had a brilliant time in Helsinki, just like whenever I visit my home town.

Jonas at Embracing The Music

I was there for an event organized by the YLE (“the Finnish BBC”) called “Embracing the music – music, Internet and public service” last Friday and it was well organized, informative and a lot of fun. Often these kinds of events are exactly the opposite.

As well as taking part in a big panel discussion I did a presentation (hopefully) giving an overview of the development of digital recorded music over the recent years and where it might be heading in the future. It had the catchy title “Development of digital recorded music and the way we consume it – the past, present and future”. I even had slides (which I never do).

My talk was built on the following assumption:

Music is like a rumour:

  • It will spread around and one cannot control it
  • It has a creator but no owner
  • It has a ‘value’ but it can’t be set by the creator

“Control” is the key term here – we lost it when we started digitizing our recorded music and started to conntect our computers to a network. Control over recorded music is something we will never get back and any effort on this is wasted energy.

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3 Responses to “Music is like a rumour”

  1. Musiikkiteollisuus OSA 1: The big picture! « Pasi-Anssin muzakorneri Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 11:45 am

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  2. Sebastian Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Hi Jonas!

    Interessantes Thema, sehr komplex und manchmal unüberschaubar wie ich finde. Deswegen aber nicht minder interessant. Beschäftige mich schon seit längerem – mal mehr und mal weniger philosophisch – mit ähnlichen Dingen und bin immer auf der Suche nach Input. Aus diesem Grunde wollte ich fragen, ob Du mir evtl. die Folien zu Deinem Vortrag mal schicken könntest, so dass sie vllt. nach einmaligem Gebrauch noch von weiterem Nutzen sein können.

    Wäre kuhl! Beste Grüsse,
    Sebastian.

  3. Jonas Woost Says:
    May 26th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    @Sebastian: Gerne wuerde ich Dir die Folien schicken, aber sie wuerden nicht viel Sinn machen. Es sind eigentlich nur Bilder, die meine Presentation unterstreichen. Aber Du kannst Dir den Vortrag hier anschauen: http://pop.yle.fi/embracing-music/2009-04-21/content-presentations