And the whites and grays give way to the blue, as sunshine returns to Santa Fe.
In case you want to know what our names look like in Japanese:
Here is a video from the Blue Note Tokyo website – they put the whole thing together and selected and edited the music. It’s interesting that they cut off the end – one feels suspended and the suggestion seems to be to come hear the rest at the Blue Note. Nice.
Now, it’s almost all free, instant and infinite. And our relationship with music has changed forever.
Like any revolution (((like anything that happens, really))) the Digital Revolution will only be understood in hindsight. Say, ten years from now, or fifty.
In the meantime we’ll just have to move forward somehow, as if in a dark hallway, slowly feeling our way to the exit, or entrance as it may be. Many will trip, many will fall, and eventually we will be out the door, wondering about what happened, and what took so long (((and why nobody left a light on))). Maybe the solution will be terribly obvious – in hindsight. It usually is.
The site allows its members to create and listen to heir own playlists of songs streamed to them online.
The same peer-to-peer technology as found in file-sharing is used to deliver near-CD quality and tracks that playback almost instantly.
The service is free for listeners willing to hear audio and on-screen adverts (which appear between roughly every five songs), although users can otherwise pay £10 per month for a premium service which enables them to listen to songs without adverts.
And from guitarist Robert Fripp:
Robert Fripp’s Diary for Thursday, 21st May 2009 The industry-word is that Spotify currently has little advertising to support it & few punters are signing up for the subscription service. In my view, Spotify provides an exemplary model of how the new, emerging music industry of digital provision works against the interests of music’s originators & generators.
Headphones. Actually they are properly called In-Ear-Monitors. Everyone in the band wears them for our performances and most of us use them to listen to music on our iPods or computers as well. Good isolation is the key. Isolation is very important on stage and very useful on the bus or in an airport or airplane – whenever your surroundings are noisy. The better the isolation, the less you have to turn up the volume to hear the music. Link to the page for SCL5s on the Shure website.
And apropos ears, check out this item from the BBC:
Vincent van Gogh did not cut off his own ear but lost it in a fight with fellow artist Paul Gauguin in a row outside a brothel, it has been claimed.
