Monday, 29 June 2009
The Online Age is enhancing the music industry
i think that the online age is enhancing the music industry because it allows easy instant access the thousands artists and information about all sorts of music and improves the bond between the artist/band and the audiences. Sites such as Last FM allow the audience to listen to artists without having to go out and purchase the items and with features such as playlists you can easily group your favourite artists together. File sharing is becoming very popular in this age and a lot of people are complaining that it is destroying the music industry. I don't agree with this because file sharing is just like sending a song to your mates but on a greater scale. a lot of people including myself who use file sharing software such as frostwire still go out and but band/artists merch etc.. so i fell that this doesn’t not contribute to destroying the music industry. This online age also allows you to buy merch, CD's posters etc.. off the bands website making it easier to get hold of what you want.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Music Investigation
Informtation acquired from wikipedia
Last FM
Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 30 million active users based in more than 200 countries.[1] On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140m ($280m USD).[2]
Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations, the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred to Last.fm's database ("scrobbled") via a plugin installed into the user's music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user's profile page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user's favourites.
Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm's music library, and are able to listen to some individual tracks on demand, or download tracks if the rights holder has previously authorised it
How could this affect the future of the music industry?
Last Fm could affect the future of the music industry by enhancing it. This could relate to the easy and instant access to all genre's of music. Last Fm offers free downloadable songs to you aslong side the full tracks it provides. It can also help promote the band by having band/artist profiles and information on the band. Some say sites liek this ruin the music industry because if the yare offering free downloads its costing the bands more money and noone is buying their CD record etc... and with instand acess to thousands of songs tere is no need to buy music. This is an easy way for audiences to consume the music they like so i feel that it affects the music industry ina possitive way
Spotify
Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer[1] streaming music program that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums. Music can be browsed by artists, albums or created playlists as well as by direct searches. Although it is not possible to save the streamed music for use outside the application, a link is provided to allow the listener to directly purchase the material via partner retailers.[4] The program/service in its free version is only available in parts of western Europe during the ongoing beta programme although the subscription model should be available in almost all countries.
How could this affect the future of the music industry?
spotify is similar to Last fm with the instant access to thousands of artists although with spotify it doesnt offer free downloads so you cant only listening to music. Spotify allows music to be played with almost no buffering. i think that spotify also possitivly contributes to he music industry
Urban Tribes and Subcultures
Urban tribes are groups within subcultures.It may be difficult to identify certain subcultures because their style (particularly clothing and music) may be adopted by mass culture for commercial purposes. Businesses often seek to capitalize on the subversive allure of subcultures in search of cool, which remains valuable in the selling of any product.[citation needed] This process of cultural appropriation may often result in the death or evolution of the subculture, as its members adopt new styles that appear alien to mainstream society.[citation needed] This process provides a constant stream of styles which may be commercially adopted.
Music-based subcultures are particularly vulnerable to this process, and so what may be considered a subculture at one stage in its history—such as jazz, goth, punk, hip hop and rave cultures—may represent mainstream taste within a short period of time. Some subcultures reject or modify the importance of style, stressing membership through the adoption of an ideology which may be much more resistant to commercial exploitation.[citation needed] The punk subculture's distinctive (and initially shocking) style of clothing was adopted by mass-market fashion companies once the subculture became a media interest
(Quotation taken from Wikipedia. What does it mean, and what does it tell us about different ways of thinking about subcultures?)
“Subcultures [can be seen to be] symbolic or ritualistic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony by consciously adopting behavior that appears threatening to the establishment.[On the other hand, other theorists argue that] youth culture is inherently consumerist and integral to the divide-and-rule strategy of capitalism. They argue that [youth culture/ subculture] creates generation gaps and pits groups of youths against each other (e.g. mods and rockers), especially as youth culture is the dominant culture in the west.
Last FM
Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 30 million active users based in more than 200 countries.[1] On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140m ($280m USD).[2]
Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations, the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred to Last.fm's database ("scrobbled") via a plugin installed into the user's music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user's profile page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user's favourites.
Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm's music library, and are able to listen to some individual tracks on demand, or download tracks if the rights holder has previously authorised it
How could this affect the future of the music industry?
Last Fm could affect the future of the music industry by enhancing it. This could relate to the easy and instant access to all genre's of music. Last Fm offers free downloadable songs to you aslong side the full tracks it provides. It can also help promote the band by having band/artist profiles and information on the band. Some say sites liek this ruin the music industry because if the yare offering free downloads its costing the bands more money and noone is buying their CD record etc... and with instand acess to thousands of songs tere is no need to buy music. This is an easy way for audiences to consume the music they like so i feel that it affects the music industry ina possitive way
Spotify
Spotify is a proprietary peer-to-peer[1] streaming music program that allows instant listening to specific tracks or albums. Music can be browsed by artists, albums or created playlists as well as by direct searches. Although it is not possible to save the streamed music for use outside the application, a link is provided to allow the listener to directly purchase the material via partner retailers.[4] The program/service in its free version is only available in parts of western Europe during the ongoing beta programme although the subscription model should be available in almost all countries.
How could this affect the future of the music industry?
spotify is similar to Last fm with the instant access to thousands of artists although with spotify it doesnt offer free downloads so you cant only listening to music. Spotify allows music to be played with almost no buffering. i think that spotify also possitivly contributes to he music industry
Urban Tribes and Subcultures
Urban tribes are groups within subcultures.It may be difficult to identify certain subcultures because their style (particularly clothing and music) may be adopted by mass culture for commercial purposes. Businesses often seek to capitalize on the subversive allure of subcultures in search of cool, which remains valuable in the selling of any product.[citation needed] This process of cultural appropriation may often result in the death or evolution of the subculture, as its members adopt new styles that appear alien to mainstream society.[citation needed] This process provides a constant stream of styles which may be commercially adopted.
Music-based subcultures are particularly vulnerable to this process, and so what may be considered a subculture at one stage in its history—such as jazz, goth, punk, hip hop and rave cultures—may represent mainstream taste within a short period of time. Some subcultures reject or modify the importance of style, stressing membership through the adoption of an ideology which may be much more resistant to commercial exploitation.[citation needed] The punk subculture's distinctive (and initially shocking) style of clothing was adopted by mass-market fashion companies once the subculture became a media interest
(Quotation taken from Wikipedia. What does it mean, and what does it tell us about different ways of thinking about subcultures?)
“Subcultures [can be seen to be] symbolic or ritualistic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony by consciously adopting behavior that appears threatening to the establishment.[On the other hand, other theorists argue that] youth culture is inherently consumerist and integral to the divide-and-rule strategy of capitalism. They argue that [youth culture/ subculture] creates generation gaps and pits groups of youths against each other (e.g. mods and rockers), especially as youth culture is the dominant culture in the west.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Favourite Music Video and analysis of video
Analysis of video
The genre for this band is rock/metal and the genre characteristics of this are shown through the stage presence of the band and their movements. The movements are quite heavy and reflect the mood and genre of the band. There is some relationship between the lyrics and the visuals in the piece but the video does not base its visuals on the lyrics word for word because they would be far too cliché and expected. There are some connections between the music and the visuals for example at the melodic parts of the song the mood of the visual calms right down and the speed of the members movements calms. At the heavy parts the visual becomes more heavy and the members show this through head banding and quite " harsh " movements. Although there is some narrative structure in the video and sort of follows a story there and a lot of shots and the video focus' on the band members this could relate to the record label the band are on the close-ups and different camera shot help to the promote the band and their label. In this video there is a lot of reference to the notion of looking. As the narrative side of the video progresses and the female in shot is walking around there are several posters around the city with the band moving and playing in the posters as if they were a screen themselves. From what i get from this video is that it doesn’t have intertextual references to films, programmes etc.. and consists of a random storyline which you don't particularly follow.
Conventions of a music video
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
(e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals
(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6. There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).
(e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals
(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6. There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).
Monday, 15 June 2009
Music i like
Everytime i die
Deaf havana
Atlas&i
Bring me the horizon
many things untold
comeback kid
brides
Ghotsts on pegasus bridge
Enter shikari
Lower than atlantis
the eyes of a traitor
los campesinos
the horrors
neils children
the fall of troy
set your goals
taking back sunday
Deaf havana
Atlas&i
Bring me the horizon
many things untold
comeback kid
brides
Ghotsts on pegasus bridge
Enter shikari
Lower than atlantis
the eyes of a traitor
los campesinos
the horrors
neils children
the fall of troy
set your goals
taking back sunday
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