Great cover story in the LA Weekly on the past and future of music through
the medium. The writer visits one of the last vinyl pressing plants in Los
Angeles, covers a basic history of the phonograph, reminds us of the
Voyager spacecraft which carried a gold record player and record into the
farthest reaches of space, and connects it all to some interesting
predictions of the future.
Worth your time...
Gen
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Loving and Leaving the Phonograph
It's easy to blame the degradation of art, or at least the abuse of
artists, on the forces of capital. But for the vast majority of the history
of the world, music has been about community first and commerce second, if
at all. The record business has done its best to invert that. And now a
generation of music lovers looks upon using Internet file-sharing software
like Napster less as theft than as an inalienable right. Alec Hanley Bemis
explores potential ways of distributing, purchasing, creating and "owning"
the music that will absorb fans and musicians in a new era of frictionless
communication.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/43/cover-bemis.shtml
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