Metrics and Muzak: The Feedback Loop of Playlist Centric Music
Music is all around us, but are any of us really listening?
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Tobi
Mar 314 min read
All Music Equal? Valuing Music in a One-Price-Fits-All World
The one-price-fits-all age of streaming has become instrumental in the shaping of our collective perception of the value of music.
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Tobi
Feb 214 min read
Death Star Trash Compactor: Making Music in Streaming/Social Age
Introduction: Social/Streaming Compactor “How should I put it? It's like the trash compactor scene in the first Star Wars film. The...
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Tobi
Feb 115 min read
Should You Quit Spotify?
Introduction: Mixed Every Friday for the past 6 or more years, I cobble together the week’s new independent releases into my New...
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Tobi
Jan 286 min read
The Deafening Din of en Masse Upload : Making Music in the Age of Streaming
The individual voices of millions of artists are lost to the deafening din of en masse upload.
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Tobi
Jan 174 min read
Rejection Normalized: The Reality of Grassroots Music-Making
Rejection is so much a part of grassroots music-making, paying for the privilege is now entirely normalized on the independent music scene.
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Tobi
Nov 29, 20234 min read
Generation Silenced: Spotify's New Royalty Threshold
Consider the tracks that fall short of Spotify’s new royalty model, the number of artists that will be financially disenfranchised is huge,
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Tobi
Nov 7, 20233 min read
Charting My Own Course: Free Music Downloads in a Streaming-Dominated World
Introduction: My Music. My Terms. In our brave new digital world, content has been rendered all but worthless, and the evolution of...
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