Friday, February 27, 2009

Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models



One of the best explanations of what the "new record business" looks and acts like by Mike Masnick:
Embedded here is the 15 minute (trust me, it goes by quickly) presentation I did at MidemNet on January 17th in Cannes, France. If you're reading via RSS or another site like iGoogle, click through to see the full presentation. Sorry it took so long to get the video up. There were a few minor technical difficulties. Anyway, the presentation garnered an interesting reaction and a whole series of fascinating discussions over email, in person and over the phone since I presented it, and while I don't want to repeat what's in the video, I did want to discuss a few points raised by the presentation. The core of the presentation is the following simple "formula" that is the basis for making money in the music business (and, I'd argue, many other businesses) in the digital era:

Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$)

There are many artists -- famous and not so famous -- who have been making use (on purpose, or not) of this formula to create successful strategies for building up a stronger fan base, creating wonderful new works of art, distributing them out to the community and getting paid for it at the same time. What made Reznor so interesting as a case study was the fact that he's done it so many times in so many different ways that he, by himself, represents a great example of how you can approach this simple formula in an infinite variety of creative ways.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Sensitive Chaos “Emerging Transparency” Gets Continued Airplay on Echoes


Echoes
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the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California is continuing to play the Emerging Transparency title track "Emerging Transparency" on Echoes Program 0908A - Monday, February 23rd.

The playlist for the show is:

Echoes Program 0908A - Monday, February 23rd
Start Time Group Name Song Name Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00 Fritz Heede Passages Illuminated Manuscripts / CDBaby
0:06:00 Wolfert Brederode Quartet Frost Flower Currents
0:10:52 Martine Lund HoelSadly Missed Hidden Shore
0:16:15 Erik Scott Proper Son Other Planets / CDBaby
0:20:37 Paul Ellis Cascade The Sacred Ordinary
0:29:00 break

Second Half Hour
0:30:00 An Interview with Jon Hassell
0:37:46 break

0:38:01 Jon HassellBlue Period Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street
0:45:32 Madredeus Ecos Na Catredral Electronico
0:49:40 Peter Kater and Dominic Miller What Lies Within In a Dream / CDBaby
0:54:46 Tony McManusSlaibh na mBan The Maker's Mark
0:59:00 break

Third Half Hour next day's playlist>>
0:01:00 Emil Montgomery El Bosque de Maia Nomada
0:06:00 Saul Stokes Blaze Villa Gallaxia
0:11:55 Misc. Chocolate Noir Happiness is Easy
0:16:34 Sensitive ChaosEmerging Transparency Emerging Transparency
0:23:44 Brian Keane and Omar Faruk TekbilekDesert Twilight Fire Dance
0:29:00 break

Fourth Half Hour
0:30:00 Ray MontfordBlind to Beauty A Fragile Balance
0:34:22 The Guarneri Underground Mango Twister Captive
0:40:36 B.J. Cole Window on the Deep Transparent Music
0:48:36 break

0:49:06 Carl Weingarten Western Overnight Lost in the Air / CDBaby
0:53:51 Robert Schroeder Sweets of Paradise Taste It

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Finnish Broadcasting YLE Radio 1 Plays Sensitive Chaos “Fifty Light Years From Home”

YLE Radio 1 - Space Junk Finnish Broadcasting Company radio station (electronic/ambient/space format)- played “Fifty Light Years From Home” from the new Sensitive Chaos Emerging Transparency CD on their February 15, 2009 show.

Avaruusromua 15.2.2009
Ennenkuulumatonta musiikkia Suomesta, Islannista ja Amerikasta.
MATTI INKINEN: Hiljainen haltioituminen (demo)
MATTI INKINEN: Loputon ajomatka (demo)
JUSSI VAARALA: Melodic Relax 6 (Soundspaces-Mindspaces 5)
JUSSI VAARALA: Sakraali (Soundspaces-Mindspaces 1)
EVIL MADNESS: La Casa di Satana (Demoni Paradiso)
EVIL MADNESS: L’Agonia del Controllo della Mente (Demoni Paradiso)
SENSITIVE CHAOS: Fifty Light Years From Home (Emerging Transparency)

ESITTÄJÄ: Sävellys (Albumi)

Saturday, February 14, 2009

WXDU 88.7 FM Plays Sensitive Chaos “Fifty Light Years From Home”

WXDU 88.7 FM New Frontiers radio show (new age, ambient, smooth jazz, world music, college), Durham, NC, played “Fifty Light Years From Home” on Februrary 14, 2009.

Coyote Poets of the Universe - Callin' You Home [Square Shaped Records SSR 104] 2008 Ancient Future - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Cadence Spalding - Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009 Valerie Mih - Meridians [Self Released ] 2008
AOMusic - Nahaye - Twirl [AO Music AOM0906] 2009 Label Artist
Jessica Lurie Ensemble - Number 6 - Shop of Wild Dreams [Self Released ] 2009 Artist
Phoenix Rising - Ascension - Ascension [Copus Music cm1001] 2008 1-800-882-9931 Artist
Coyote Poets of the Universe - Tender - Callin’ You Home [Square Shaped Records SSR 104] 2008 801.162.0721
Ancient Future - Seduction: Ne Po Pogrebu Bockonochek - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist
Lila Mayi - De Mais Ninguem - Gypsy Woman [Paradise Music PMCD0101] 2008
Cadence Spalding - Save the World - Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009
Eden - Metamorphosis - Return to Innocence [Intentcity ICCD 80025] 2008 Label 1-714-630-0202
Mariah Parker - Debajo de la Lluvia - Sangria [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017] 2009
Eric Tingstad Nancy Rumbel - Chinese Lullaby - Leap of Faith [Cheshire Records CT107] 2009 Artist
Valerie Mih - Interwoven - Meridians [Self Released ] 2008 Artist
Ancient Future Eric Tingstad
Timothy Cooper - East Wind [New Piano Age Music ] 2008 Nick Farr - The Ever Present Now [Riverboy WW 3282] 2009 A.R.S.(e) ashley/roedelius/story - errata [Nepenthe Music and Publishing AMC08019] 2008 Knitting By Twilight - An Evening Out of Town [it's Twilight Time eve-5] 2008 Various Artists - Buddha Cafe 2 [Intentcity ICCD80023] 2008
Timothy Cooper - Circles - East Wind [New Piano Age Music ] 2008 Label 202 361-0989 Artist
Keiko Takeda / Ed RosenBerg - RYU (Stream) - shikisokuzeku (all is vanity) [Viagem Records VR-103] 2008
Nick Farr - Not If, But When - The Ever Present Now [Riverboy WW 3282] 2009 Label Artist
Matthew Montfort - Purple Raga - Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2008] 2009
Neil Jacobs - The Ghostrider Medley “Russian Cowboy Medley” - 12-String Guitar [Adena Productions ] 2008
Sensitive Chaos - Fifty Light Years From Home - Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009
A.R.S.(e) ashley/roedelius/story - incubator - errata [Nepenthe Music and Publishing AMC08019] 2008 Label Artist
Knitting By Twilight - Venus for Everyone - An Evening Out of Town [it’s Twilight Time eve-5] 2008 Label 401-438-1923
Raphael - Divine Passion - Music for Love [Hearts of Space 2-HOS-11420] 2008 Artist
V/A: - Manana - Buddha Cafe 2 [Intentcity ICCD80023] 2008 Label 1-714-630-0202
Nick Farr Raphael

Radio Despi La Otra Orilla plays Sensitive Chaos “Emerging Transparency”

Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, La Otra Orilla show, February 9, 2009, plays “Emerging Transparency.”

John Adorney - Beckoning [EverSound EVM-3503] 1998 Ancient Future - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Ancient Future - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Cadence Spalding - Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009 Miten - Songs for the Inner Lover [Prabhu Music (Bells Associates Ltd) - Silenzio Music CD 14008] 2003 Alicia Bessette - Reservoir [Wachusett Records WR-1000] 2002 Alicia Bessette - Orchard [Wachusett Records WR-1001] 2008
John Adorney - Celebration - Beckoning [EverSound EVM-3503] 1998 Label 805.496-3996 Artist
Ancient Future - Flirtation: Forest Frolic - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist
Ancient Future - Flirtation: Simsimay Panima - Planet Passion [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2010] 2001 Artist
Mariah Parker (w/ Matthew Montfort) - Sangria - Sangria [Ancient-Future.Com Records AF-2017] 2009
Cadence Spalding (w/ Mars Lasar) - Kyrie Eleison - Save The World [Sound Manipulations SM CAD01] 2009
Miten w/ Deva Premal - So Much Magnificence - Songs for the Inner Lover [Prabhu Music (Bells Associates Ltd) - Silenzio Music CD 14008] 2003 Artist
Sarva-Antah - Peace for the World - Om Shanti Om [Oreade Music ORM 62762] 2005 Label
Alicia Bessette - Under Water Looking Up - Reservoir [Wachusett Records WR-1000] 2002 Label 508.869.2846 Artist
Alicia Bessette - Stone Through Water - Orchard [Wachusett Records WR-1001] 2008 Label 508.869.2846 Artist
John Adorney Ancient Future Ancient Future Miten Alicia Bessette Alicia Bessette
Byron Metcalf - Nada Terma [Projekt PRO00222] 2008 Alpha Wave Movement - Terra [Harmonic Resonance Recordings HRR060823] 2008 Russel Walder - Rise [Nomad Soul Records NSCD001] 2007 Patrick O'Hearn - Glaciation [patrickohearn.com Music 1006-2] 2007 Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Inlandish [Grönland Records CDGRON64] 2008 Michael Brant DeMaria - Siyotanka [Ontos Music MDM5812] 2008
Keiko Takeda - lost river - Poemas [Viagem Records VR-102] 1995
Pete Solomon / Art Alm - Knowledge - A Day in the Now [Self Released SOLM 701] 2008
Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig and Steve Roach - Nada Terma Part 2 - Nada Terma [Projekt PRO00222] 2008
Alpha Wave Movement - slow motion halo’s - Terra [Harmonic Resonance Recordings HRR060823] 2008 Artist
Sensitive Chaos - Emerging Transparency - Emerging Transparency [Subsequent Records SR002-02] 2009
Russel Walder - Gift of Fire - Rise [Nomad Soul Records NSCD001] 2007
Patrick O’Hearn - resourceful adaptation - Glaciation [patrickohearn.com Music 1006-2] 2007 Artist
Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story - Inlandish - Inlandish [Grönland Records CDGRON64] 2008 Artist
Michael Brant DeMaria - The Dream - Siyotanka [Ontos Music MDM5812] 2008 Artist
Ancient Future - Quiet Fire - Quiet Fire [Narada CD-1012] 1986 Label 414-961-8350 Artist
Byron Metcalf Alpha Wave Movement Russel Walder Patrick O'Hearn Hans-Joachim Roedelius Ancient Future