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“As seen on TV”

Jonas Woost — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:07:48 +0000

Arttu was so kind to upload my short interview for the Finnish 6pm news to YouTube so I can embed it here as well:

heute:pop:morgen playlist 13/05/2009

Jonas Woost — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:58:12 +0000

Inspired by my trip to Helsinki I was talking about my ‘music is like a rumour’ idea in this show as well as sharing my opinion on public broadcasters in small countries like Finland.

You can listen to my latest show here.

1. Lacrosse ‘It’s Always Sunday Around Here’
2. Au Revoir Simone ‘All or Nothing’
3. Breathe Owl Breathe ‘Twilight’
4. Iron & Wine ‘The Trapeze Swinger’
5. Woods ‘Military Madness’
6. My Latest Novel ‘All in All in All Is All’
7. Bat For Lashes ‘Use Somebody’
8. Emmy The Great ‘MIA’
9. La Roux ‘In For The Kill’ (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)
10. Chateau Marmont ‘Beagle’
11. Heartsrevolution ‘Untitled’
12. The Field ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’

Music is like a rumour

Jonas Woost — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:40:08 +0000

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.

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.