Personally, I think this remixability will lead to 'small music' that is more relevant and specific to people in certain contexts. We're leaving the age of 'mass media' behind, which is also the age in which the recording industry came up. I don't think we can expect music as a medium to remain the same, just like music as a medium was d…
Personally, I think this remixability will lead to 'small music' that is more relevant and specific to people in certain contexts. We're leaving the age of 'mass media' behind, which is also the age in which the recording industry came up. I don't think we can expect music as a medium to remain the same, just like music as a medium was different before the age of mass media. In that sense, a historical anomaly is being corrected.
There's a lot of nuance and I respect that artists don't want to be a part of it, but I do think that there is a cultural expectation for people to 1. have personalized content and feeds, and 2. be able to edit and remix things (like memes, tiktoks, etc).
Personally, I think this remixability will lead to 'small music' that is more relevant and specific to people in certain contexts. We're leaving the age of 'mass media' behind, which is also the age in which the recording industry came up. I don't think we can expect music as a medium to remain the same, just like music as a medium was different before the age of mass media. In that sense, a historical anomaly is being corrected.
There's a lot of nuance and I respect that artists don't want to be a part of it, but I do think that there is a cultural expectation for people to 1. have personalized content and feeds, and 2. be able to edit and remix things (like memes, tiktoks, etc).
I've written a long essay about it before here: https://musicx.substack.com/p/will-ai-correct-the-anomaly-of-the