Music, the Internet, and Education
January 29th, 2006 by Ted
Music and the way people interact with music has constantly evolved. As we look forward to 2006, not only do we have our digital music files (i.e. MP3) but there seems to be a shift in how people are sharing their digital music files. While the RIAA may have Apple’s I-Tunes complying with the industry’s profit-making licensing scheme that leaves little of the profit in the artist’s hands, the blogging world and the independent music worlds collide at The Hype Machine - an audio blog aggregator. Between the world of blogging and the iPod the digital music landscape has shifted once again. Heck, you can even get Stanford on iTunes, check out the mash-ups recently saved on del.icio.us (check out my recent post regarding del.icio.us), or check out other people’s playlists at Webjay. Not surprisingly, both the latter sites I mentioned have recently ben purchased by Yahoo!
It is fascinating to consider how the internet is changing the sharing of music, as well as facilitating new forms of musical performance, improvisation and composition. For our part, we are developing a new performance tool called DubDubDub. DubDubDub which will allow users to use their internet browser as a musical interface and the web as their sound-source. We hope to have some of the initial performances with this software up on our virtual iPod shortly, and our first public performance is going to be at the Research as Subversive Activity conference being held by MMU at the end of April.