Klarinet Archive - Posting 001332.txt from 2000/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [kl,c] Does On-line Music make any money?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 07:27:53 -0400

At 09:42 PM 5/30/2000 -0700, William Wright wrote:
> I mean, would MP3.COM pay virtuoso salaries and hire half-a-dozen
>world class symphony orchestras with the likes of Szell conducting and
>commission the likes of Aaron Copland in order to sell $5.95 file
>downloads?
> You might wonder if inexpensive music is partly to blame for the
>disappearnace of capital -- sort of cannibalizing the industry.
> It seems to me that the big recording companies can start up a few
>websites and offer downoads just as easily as MP3.COM can. What's
>changing is the availability of capital investment to maintain the best
>and largest orchestras and the virtuoso soloists and to commission the
>world class composers.
> And while I hate to say it, putting money and purchasing power in
>the hands of children contributes to the effect. It takes maturity and
>education to appreciate a fine violin in the hands of someone in a
>wheelchair over a 100-decibel guitar amp and a jiggly girl.
> I don't see that distribution is the issue at all.
>
On-line distribution may turn out to be a tremendous money-saver for record
companies. Imagine it -- no pressing facility, no inventory, but
near-instantaneous world-wide distribution. Download the file and burn it
onto your own CD-R, print the label and jewel-box insert on your own
printer, with your own paper. All the company needs is a server!

I fully expect music publishing to move in this direction within the next
few years. Why should music EVER be out of print? As long as it is
digitally archived somewhere, the file can be sent to you on-line. No
warehouses full of dusty, unwanted pieces while others go unplayed for lack
of availablility. School bands can buy a piece on-line, including a site
license to print parts as needed, and the photocopying issue is DEAD.
There are already publishers on the web doing just this very thing.

As to musical taste, it comes with maturity, and, unfortunately, maturity
is not currently in vogue.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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