tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4472388448337944762..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Why classical music needs to be stickyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-33636813099850876262013-02-25T13:45:31.456+00:002013-02-25T13:45:31.456+00:00I like the idea of re-examining the conventions, w...I like the idea of re-examining the conventions, while knowing that conventions are necessary for any communication. Apart from the issues of digitization, there is also the matter of venue and location in a live performance. No doubt along with many others, I’ve come to believe that the struggle to free up the classical concert is helped enormously by a different kind of venue: without the rigid separation of performers from audience that one finds in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century concert halls. I thought that the Early Music revolution of the 1970s had brought those places into question -- but we seem to have gone backwards: sacred and chamber music of the Baroque and earlier periods is now played in nineteenth-century halls, without question. There’s also the factor of where in the town the venue is. For some thoughts in praise of the local and the out-of-centre, see this blog post: http://www.kentishtowner.co.uk/2013/02/25/why-it-matters-classical-music-in-the-neighbourhood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-it-matters-classical-music-in-the-neighbourhoodUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394227078883179517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-18469456704382208132013-02-20T06:52:58.719+00:002013-02-20T06:52:58.719+00:00Bjork released an app with her album Biophilia fea...Bjork released an app with her album Biophilia featuring interactive "games" for each song on the album. Seems like a great idea for any genre of music.Bodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05970235434240735092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-25056409456677941272013-02-19T19:17:17.680+00:002013-02-19T19:17:17.680+00:00Jacob, the use of social media by concert promoter...Jacob, the use of social media by concert promoters that I am aware of is very one dimensional and granular - like the Twitter experiments linked to in the post.<br /><br />What I have in mind that ticket purchasers are given access to a micro-site for the concert. This would use a standard template that is populated for each concert with unique multi-dimensional information about who is doing what, where and when in connection with the concert. This information would come from the promoters, performers and ticket holders.<br /><br />Concert series such as the BBC Proms are unique because of the sense of community in the hall. My suggestion is that a similar sense of virtual community is created using social media for every concert. Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-10724846971471067042013-02-19T18:47:43.604+00:002013-02-19T18:47:43.604+00:00Could you elaborate a little on the use of social ...Could you elaborate a little on the use of social media by concert promoters as you envision it?<br /><br />Thanks!<br /> - JacobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-19789069448675371702013-02-19T12:30:37.691+00:002013-02-19T12:30:37.691+00:00Christopher, thanks for that comment, but I think ...Christopher, thanks for that comment, but I think it rather misses the point. Visual cues were cited as being important in the past, and also in the present with a label such as Alia Vox - which is a success story. <br /><br />But I am not saying that visual presentation of recordings will be important in the future as "it must be accepted that file only classical downloads will ultimately prevail". In my final paragraph I say that "Classical music needs to ditch its smooth strategies and start adding new non-music cues that resonate with the technological and cultural zeitgeist", which is why the post explores technology based cues such as musicGPS.<br /><br />The thrust of my argument is that classical music communication protocols, of which the visual cue is just one, are misunderstood and very important.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-69276930644314912292013-02-19T12:10:48.401+00:002013-02-19T12:10:48.401+00:00I'm not sure that a label's original visua...I'm not sure that a label's original visual presentation really enables it to survive uncompromised in the present marketplace.<br /><br />The Dacapo label, for instance, puts a lot of effort into original graphic design and has gained buzz for doing it, but CD sales remain low and the label is still dependent on Danish state arts subsidies to survive. <br /><br />Chandos also had to take a drastic turn in the repertoire it releases several years ago, ending its support of polarizing modernists like Schnittke and Gubaidulina for a lot of inoffensive British music. While it may have done something to win digital-age listeners over, it's winning listeners over to releases that are already something of a compromise with the mass market. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com