"Merging his interests in physical computing and electronic music, artist and composer Tristan Perich will give a presentation on his recent project, One Bit Music. Electronics programmed and packaged in a standard CD jewel case by Perich play minimal glitch/dance music when headphones are plugged in. The device is meant to fit into the standard album-based method of music distribution: you will find it along other CDs in a record store and it has different tracks; it will be released by Cantaloupe Music in the upcoming months."
Interesting idea - I wonder if each copy will give different output?
http://www.onebitmusic.com/
(link found at we make money not art)
New concepts for music delivery
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- KVRAF
- 3588 posts since 13 May, 2004 from montreal
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Clever, but it doesn't make much sense beyond a sort of art project curio. It would have limited application to music that wasn't meant to sound like glitched chip music.
Even if the technology were expanded to include other forms of music, who would want what is essentially a dedicated player for a musical work, when their current player is unbound?
I've seen a lot of these types of projects floating about, like another with some kind of software readable from paper inserts, and I'm not sure I'm on board with these efforts to counter the market abundance of music by inventing some new physical scarcity model. In other industry's where the product becomes abundant, they usually veer towards service models. You see a lot of that happening already with music, you'll probably see a lot more in the next few.
Even if the technology were expanded to include other forms of music, who would want what is essentially a dedicated player for a musical work, when their current player is unbound?
I've seen a lot of these types of projects floating about, like another with some kind of software readable from paper inserts, and I'm not sure I'm on board with these efforts to counter the market abundance of music by inventing some new physical scarcity model. In other industry's where the product becomes abundant, they usually veer towards service models. You see a lot of that happening already with music, you'll probably see a lot more in the next few.
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- KVRAF
- 4221 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
This type of thing has been on my mind a lot lately. One thing that occured to me was that artists really need a way to band together and form one large label and then sell a monthly subscription. All the middlemen need to take a hike. I mean, if 50% of all artists put their work in a pool and charged a flat fee for accessing a limited number of mp3s out of that pool per month (just because bandwidth costs), and then distribute that money equally among the artists... kinda socialist but at the same time the sheer volume of subscribers might actually make it work in favor of big and small artists alike. The draw would be how easy and unfettered the process was -- you just take what you want a la carte.
Places like eMusic.com have the subscription thing going, but the choices are limited to whomever they can entice to license their music. Somehow it needs to expand into more of an ASCAP/BMI blanket license type thing where the consumer buys the all encompassing license rather than a middleman/distributor.
btw, these are just ramblings and I know these aren't original ideas
edit: Todd Rundgren's Patronet idea is similar but too small of a vision. It needs to be a massive library and a small fee. The money would be made over long term recurring subscriptions rather than the one-time art tax that is today's reality.
Places like eMusic.com have the subscription thing going, but the choices are limited to whomever they can entice to license their music. Somehow it needs to expand into more of an ASCAP/BMI blanket license type thing where the consumer buys the all encompassing license rather than a middleman/distributor.
btw, these are just ramblings and I know these aren't original ideas
edit: Todd Rundgren's Patronet idea is similar but too small of a vision. It needs to be a massive library and a small fee. The money would be made over long term recurring subscriptions rather than the one-time art tax that is today's reality.
