Brooklyn-based choreographer Chris Elam and his company, Misnomer, are working to use the Web for dance the way music, film and video have. “Borrowing a page from indie-rock bands that have little means for marketing or distribution, he envisions Web sites with streaming video of rehearsals and viewer comments; live video chats with dancers and … Continue reading “Bringing Dance Performance Online”
A music-lover settles in front of his computer in London to watch the live-streaming of the New York Philharmonic’s concert in North Korea. But all was not as advertised…
“Record sales as we know them are in long-term decline. Whereas the wider music market–live, merchandising, streaming video and music social networking–is in rude health. After seven years of gradual change, we are about to see a major shift. Record companies are, at last, in a hurry to transform themselves into proper consumer marketing companies.”
“Since Pandora.com closed its box of digital musical delights this month to users outside the United States, the complaints have been pouring in from Dubai to Patagonia. … Internet radio sites are global by nature, streaming musical programs digitally to users all over the world. But there is no one-stop global shopping for royalty collections, … Continue reading “Online, Real World’s Royalty Logistics Get Complicated”
“Freaking has gained widespread acceptance in recent years, propelled by the mainstreaming of rap music and the sultry images in hip-hop videos. Critics say its unquestionably carnal positions — girl bent at the waist, boy thrusting behind her — go far beyond previous generations’ bumping and grinding. ‘Every generation finds its successors’ dances to be … Continue reading “Sexy Dancing, 2006 Edition (Or: Elvis’s Legacy Lives)”
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is opening its own music station on theinternet. There will be continuous streaming of classical music, enabling listeners to hear its productions round the clock. “Subscribers pay £8.80 a month for unlimited streaming of music to their computers and eight free downloaded tracks. ‘We are using the RSNO site as … Continue reading “Scottish Orchestra Opens Its Own Internet Radio Station”
“With approximately 3 million visitors streaming into the place last summer, with gospel and jazz and highbrow music set to sing again from its main stage starting next weekend, Millennium Park has become our town square, our meeting place, our focal point for the arts — at least when the winter winds aren’t howling.”
The strangest new trend in live concertgoing is all about pretending that you’re actually alone. Rather than piling up walls of speakers to pump sound into a room, several music festivals have begun providing a bank of headphone jacks for people to plug in their personal ear gear, and the whole room rocks in what … Continue reading “BYOH: The Latest In Personalizing The Concert Experience”
One year after an embarrassing cancellation, the Cleveland Orchestra is returning to the BBC Proms festival this summer for the first time in eleven years. The orchestra’s musicians forced last summer’s cancellation when they refused to allow the BBC to stream online audio from their scheduled concert without additional payment. But since then, the musicians … Continue reading “After A False Start, Cleveland Back At The Proms”
Is music downloading going to kill traditional radio? A Berlin station thinks so. MotorFM, launched Feb. 1, “abandons on-air commercials in favor of generating revenue from MP3 downloads and targeted sponsoring of its programming. The next step will be streaming audio directly to 3G cell phones and letting listeners pay for downloads by SMS text … Continue reading “Radio In A Downloadable World”
