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JohnDuffy asked Paul Williams: "Will the art of studio recording suffer as artists are marginalized by the constraints of time and money? Lest we forget The Beatles and Brian Wilson created legendary recordings while completely omitting..." Show more »"Will the art of studio recording suffer as artists are marginalized by the constraints of time and money? Lest we forget The Beatles and Brian Wilson created legendary recordings while completely omitting the distractions pertained to live performance." Show less »
Paul Williams answer: "Not necessarily. Certainly now most of an artist’s income comes from live revenues. The Beatles and The Beach Boys spent hours in the recording studio, but only in their later careers. Over the past thirty..." Show more»" Not necessarily. Certainly now most of an artist’s income comes from live revenues. The Beatles and The Beach Boys spent hours in the recording studio, but only in their later careers. Over the past thirty years or so the recording process has slowed down, partly because there’s much better equipment now so people can indulge themselves with technology. Also the issuing of albums has slowed down; the pattern now tends to be to release an album every three years. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Arts and entertainment | Email to friends | Dec 27 2007 10:48:12 AM

JohnDuffy asked Matt Phillips : "We already have to pay to see artists perform live, so why shouldn't their studio work be free? Professional recording equipment is now widely affordable and distribution costs don‘t exist for downloads...." Show more »"We already have to pay to see artists perform live, so why shouldn't their studio work be free? Professional recording equipment is now widely affordable and distribution costs don‘t exist for downloads. In contrast live performance incurs many costs (venue hire, PA equipment, promotion, transport, etc) and delivers a unique product. In this climate shouldn't artists consider their recordings purely as a promotional tool for their live product?" Show less »
Matt Phillips answer: "Why not? If you want to give your music away for free then all power to you. The point that’s often missed about music and free music is that the record industry has always given music away for free; ..." Show more»" Why not? If you want to give your music away for free then all power to you. The point that’s often missed about music and free music is that the record industry has always given music away for free; whether it’s through the radio paid for through advertising, the television or as free CD samplers. What’s changed is the ability to get everything for free, on-spec, through illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing. What the industry has a problem with is not being able to generate any income, or enough income, in order to be able to invest in new recordings. It’s not actually the consumers right to have everything for free. The very essence of copyright is that the creator has the right to decide what happens to their music. If I want to give my music away for free that’s entirely up to me, but it’s not up to the consumer to give it away for free to millions of others on the internet. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Arts and entertainment | Email to friends | Dec 27 2007 10:33:35 AM

JohnDuffy asked Conor McNicholas : "Radiohead's innovative ‘pay-what-you-like’ approach is a laudable gesture, but does it not set an unsustainable precedent for new artists, who without sales based revenue may never enjoy such autonomy?..." Show more »"Radiohead's innovative ‘pay-what-you-like’ approach is a laudable gesture, but does it not set an unsustainable precedent for new artists, who without sales based revenue may never enjoy such autonomy? " Show less »
Conor McNicholas answer: "The most exciting thing about the record industry at the moment is that it is the great unknown. Everybody’s experimenting and trying different things. Although Radiohead went with this big brave move..." Show more»" The most exciting thing about the record industry at the moment is that it is the great unknown. Everybody’s experimenting and trying different things. Although Radiohead went with this big brave move they are still hedging their bets and putting their album out on CD. But the one-size-fits-all no longer works for artists, so they will make decisions based on how they want to carry their music forward. The digital age allows artists, very, very big artists, to completely construct a virtual record industry entirely on their own terms. They don’t need to take something off the peg; they can create a completely bespoke solution for themselves. That’s great, but for a lot of smaller artists they are going to need ever more to plug into a one-size-fits-all service company, that will be able to get their music out there in one form or another. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Arts and entertainment | Email to friends | Dec 27 2007 10:25:45 AM

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