The Real Value of Music and Strategies for Emerging Artists: Articles from Wired.com

I've not written here in ages, though keep getting hits from all over...weird. I will soon begin again in earnest, I think.

For now, two thought-provoking articles from Wired magazine... comments will surely follow. They include interview/conversation audio clips. Any musician who hasn't thought and isn't thinking about these things is living in some sort of dream world....

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists
(this is interesting)

and

Thom Yorke & David Byrne on the Real Value of Music
(this is a conversation/interview & maybe less interesting)

The Future of Music Policy Summit

Last year's Future of Music Policy Summit took place at McGill University. If you've the time, and a decent internet connection, there are videos of the discussion panels here. They're generally over an hour long, but you can skip through them.

Related to yesterday's post, there's a discussion called " The New Deciders: Metafilters, Blogs, Podcasts". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a collection of papers or abstracts available. Wish I could have heard David Byrne's talk!