Disposable Content Panel
"Has the availability of affordable recording equipment and the permeation of the Internet devalued music? Explore how technology has changed the core value of musical content."
Panelists: Bob George, Founder of the ARChive of Contemporary Music
Adam Farrell, Head of Marketing at The Beggars Group/Matador Records
Marcy Rauer Wagman, Esq., CEO of MAD Dragon UNLTD
Anthony Batt, President/Founder of Buzznet.com
Moderator: David Thomas Founder of Pere Ubu
Choice Quotes (all from David Thomas):
"Without the full range of the langauge of sound, we are doomed."
"Screw the audience, art is forever. The audience comes and goes, it's not a community, it's a marketplace."
"I'm so tired of his (Thom Yorke from Radiohead) whining and his sensitivity."
Points Raised: Radiohead got people to pay for their own album leak (nearly $10 million at last count). As old technology goes away and destroys jobs, new technology comes along and creates new opportunities.
Questions raised: Do mp3s strip the meaning out of sound? Is accessible technology destroying the profession of The Producer? Or is it allowing people previously barred by budgetary constraints to push the creative envelope?