July 2009

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• news/current affairs

  Could you Live Without Money?

  07.23.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Just found this article, via a music mailing list – basically about a dude who lives in a cave in Utah, with no money. He picks wild plants, occasionally eats insects, dumpster-dives in the nearest town… Fascinating story, with much food for thought…. I’m not sure the lesson is about living with nothing, as much […]

• music

  ‘Green Shoots’ in the Music Industry, or Just Thriving Trees?

  07.16.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This article by Rory Cellan-Jones on the BBC site says that some new survey has told us that it’s not all bad for music… I’m not sure it’s ever been ‘bad’ at all, to be honest… CD sales are declining, but digital music costs so much less to manufacture and distribute that the crossover point […]

• music

  The Death of CD (Uccello Project’s take on it)

  07.05.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  According to CD Baby: “Over 70% of the music-buying public still prefers to purchase physical CDs, and most music journalists won’t write about your act unless you’ve sent them a professional-grade disc.” Nowadays there’s sooo much room for innovation. It seems to be that each artist needs to figure out what works best with their […]

• music

  The death of CD – forward or back?

  07.01.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  There’s been much discussion about the death of CD & the freedom this will bring musicians & this has got me thinking what does this freedom entail & what possibilities will be created.  For the last 50 years the vast majority of LP driven music (e.g. pop) has been constrained to 40-70 minutes of music […]

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