Comments on: The Authenticity of Community Music http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2009/05/18/the-authenticity-of-community-music/ Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarssipius http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2009/05/18/the-authenticity-of-community-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1280 Sarssipius Thu, 28 May 2009 08:54:32 +0000 http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/?p=598#comment-1280 "Music is always about the performance." You're so true... That's one interesting fact about the changing world that "music industry" is facing nowadays, i.e. decrease in CD sales, rise of the social media and music streaming (legal and illegal). I mean that as this industry can't survive on the CD production model, and most important as the artists don't get that much revenue from copyrighted material, they all have to refocus on the heart of the musician job which is... Live performance!! That's what people like Trent Reznor or Joe Bonamassa understood... And that's how they manage to survive!! They perform again and again... “Music is always about the performance.”

You’re so true… That’s one interesting fact about the changing world that “music industry” is facing nowadays, i.e. decrease in CD sales, rise of the social media and music streaming (legal and illegal). I mean that as this industry can’t survive on the CD production model, and most important as the artists don’t get that much revenue from copyrighted material, they all have to refocus on the heart of the musician job which is… Live performance!! That’s what people like Trent Reznor or Joe Bonamassa understood… And that’s how they manage to survive!! They perform again and again…

]]> By: Christopher http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/2009/05/18/the-authenticity-of-community-music/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Christopher Tue, 19 May 2009 21:40:30 +0000 http://www.thecontrapuntist.com/?p=598#comment-998 Music should always be about performance. What's scary to me is that our culture is beginning to put more and more stock into recorded music vs. live performance. The result is listening to a bunch of artists that are more about a presentable image, and less about talent. When I saw Odair Assad in concert a few months ago, I was struck by his complete lack of giving a crap about mistakes or anything else. He was there to play guitar. And he did! The best performers, it seems, can set aside that ego that forces people to be hypercritical; the best performers play like they don't give a crap about the notes. But they do care deeply about making music. Too much music get's lost in the music industries quest for perfection. -CD Music should always be about performance. What’s scary to me is that our culture is beginning to put more and more stock into recorded music vs. live performance. The result is listening to a bunch of artists that are more about a presentable image, and less about talent.

When I saw Odair Assad in concert a few months ago, I was struck by his complete lack of giving a crap about mistakes or anything else. He was there to play guitar. And he did! The best performers, it seems, can set aside that ego that forces people to be hypercritical; the best performers play like they don’t give a crap about the notes. But they do care deeply about making music. Too much music get’s lost in the music industries quest for perfection.

-CD

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