Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Music is a linear medium

Author:Russell Lipton
Posted:9/12/2000; 5:03:48 PM
Topic:Music and software
Msg #:21272 (In response to 21269)
Prev/Next:21271 / 21273

certainly, uttering the magic word "web" doesn't itself imply that music will be affected as such.

but i'm guessing that, at least with respect to radio.userland, we should keep in mind that we're talking "radio", not composition. (i admit that i am changing the frame of reference here, and probably the nature of the thread).

an internet radio station might well support hypertextuality.

as well as the obvious (fan weblogs, ratings, polls, commentary et al), this could include some interesting pov's on music itself driven by software capabilities --

provide multiple versions of a song, ranging from rehearsal to recorded to live to bootleg to ...

ability for listener-users to edit music as well as playlists (and retransmit, thus looping back on the versioning described above)

creation of (semi) multi-media "performances" of music that include video, animation, graphics or, for that matter, augmenting texts

creation of interactive communities of "fans" that co-produce (? too strong a term) music with bands through near real-time, daily feedback loops

again, i have shifted the frame. you may be right about music from the "creative" perspective unless (big unless) what i describe can fairly be considered a part of a new kind of "creative perspective" for music composition, enabled by the Web and, perhaps, by applications like Radio Userland.

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