[microsound-announce] (amb) Re: Thoughtlessness and Larceny - my comments

[David Newman]

Downgraded, poor quality promos as a barrier to being taken advantage of
......
 
Sure i see the logic
 
but i can't do it
 
the quality of the sound is what it is all about for me
 
not the order of the notes
 
or the hook line
 
or the catchiness
 
it is not about these elements - they do not exist
 
it is about tiny details, beautifully recorded, fragments and spaces
 
 
poor quality mp3's turn my attention off like a light switch
 
get to the CD
 
get to the quality, feel the full range of the frequencies, the sweeps the
sub .....
 
I'm sure we have an audience and they don't live their life listening to
music through poor quality apple headphones
 
taylor, richard, mark, ian, jonathan, dan, ben, monty, james, finn, erik,
daimon, lopez, gough, simon, david, all the names who care .... tell them 
 

David Newman

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Digital audio solutions 

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Records > Exploratory music 

 

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From: Numina [mailto:numina at frii.com] 
Sent: 10 May 2011 21:36
To: Michael Mantra
Cc: ambient at hyperreal.org; idm at hyperreal.org; Marcus Gabler - *MillePlateaux
Subject: Re: (amb) Re: Thoughtlessness and Larceny - my comments



Chiming in a bit late to this discussion.  Few things I wanted to
mention.  First, it's really unfortunate that a reviewer would upload a
promo review album.  That's just shameful, really.  I have seen my albums
all over illegal mp3 sites myself and have had success in getting them
removed by contacting the registrar or simply sending an e-mail to the
"contact" e-mail on the site.  When it comes to the Russian sites, they
usually seem to charge a few cents for the downloads, so I don't bother
with those sites because, really, who is going to send their credit card
to these guys? Some people might, but I think it's a small number of
folks - and as was previously mentioned, the Russian sites don't even
respond anyway.

When it comes to sending out promos, one idea I had was to offer the
promos in a format that would not make it easy to upload.  Either offer a
download version with low-res mp3s, or if the reviewer insists on a
physical CD, then send a CDR version with audio drops, or some other
periodic sound / drop-out.  I know, it may sound silly because in the end,
once the actual sales start, someone is going to upload a high-res
version, but it would at least inhibit the early reviewers from
proliferating a final sounding product.

That said, I don't plan on doing this myself, but it's just an idea.

At this point, I think it behooves us (the artists and labels) to pursue
contact with the illegal sites if we see our music - our art that we've
worked so hard at.  Even if they don't take it down, it might
make them annoyed or even a little nervous.

OK, now off to send a bunch of e-mails to a site that has a bunch of my
loop libraries for illegal download (it just popped up a couple days ago).
At least I have SONY to threaten them with on this. :)

J.
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