New Frontiers in the Future of Music

This week I took some time to work through a few areas of the music industry that are quickly changing. When you add up the areas of fan funding, NFTs and livestreaming, you can see that in many ways artists are getting wise to the game that has been played so far with streaming services not being the fairest crack at earning a living.

The fundamental question that has to be asked here is something along the lines of, “do musicians deserve to get paid for their work?”, and while it might be an offensive question to work through we should likely agree that on the whole there is nothing that commands artists to get paid for their work.

Because it’s all based on context: Is this artist operating inside a network that makes it appealing for the flow or energy of money to make its way over to this person?

Listen to the podcast for the full deep-dive discussion. I also play a track called Dark Matter that I made last summer, which is what the artwork is in reference to.

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