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What Happens When Everyone’s A Music Maker?

Are we moving from an era of media consumption to one where were are all creators? Blogs enable us all to be writers.  Cameras on mobile phones have turned us into photo journalists. Now new apps are bringing music creation to the masses. Dave Hayes explored this phenomenon and predicted an interesting future during his recent presentation at TedxCardiff.

UPDATE: I had some trouble with the code (Sorry to those that it effected yesterday.), so go check it out at Duncan Freeman's IndieMusicTech.

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  1. I’ve been writing about the idea that everyone is a music maker for quite awhile. I’ve wanted to focus on it for two reasons:
    http://brandsplusmusic.blogspot.com/search/label/self-expression
    http://brandsplusmusic.blogspot.com/search/label/audience%20participation
    I have wanted to focus on this for two reasons:
    1. The most revolutionary things I have in music recently have been the iPhone and iPad music creation apps.
    2. Musicians have been told to develop their 1000 fans, tribes, direct-to-fan sales, etc. But what if the next stage is a time when everyone is a music creator? What if people move from merely consuming music to creating it? It will be a different business model.

  2. A great presentation.
    When he mentioned the “Shift to Consumption,” though…it got me thinking about Kyle’s recent work and a point that I always think of reading his pieces: it’s not just music. We CONSUME EVERYTHING. The entire culture of the Western World was completely rebuilt around CONSUMPTION and it was deemed “Progress” by those who were profiting from this new order.
    Whereas today in the independent music world, everywhere I turn, people are talking about SUPPORT. I think that shift is more important than I realized — too subtle and obvious for me to grok it until now.
    Thanks for the brainfood…and BTW, hypebot material has been way more interesting in the past 2 weeks. I know it’s mostly cyclical, but whatever you guys are doing now, keep it up. Thanks.

  3. Things haven’t changed THAT much. Just because you own a computer doesn’t mean you have developed any sort of musical or artistic talent. Even if you have developed talent in one art doesn’t mean you have put in the time and devotion to create anything that stands out. I think people confuse the ease of access to the tools with ease of mastering one’s art.

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