These days it is hard to come by an individual who does not own, or has not at least at one point owned an Ipod or another version of mp3 player. Portable devices, now about the size of a snack cracker or smaller that can hold 1000s upon 1000s of songs with the click of a button. Convenient yes, but fatal if and when they may crash…
Mp3 players make up the majority of today’s society’s music collections. We have shown in project 2 that mp3’s have diminished CD sales and one of Musos’s scholarly articles cited made claims to live performance sales increasing with the increased popularity of mp3’s…but what lies in our future?
Possibilities are endless with the virtual reality world just beginning to be dabbled in. At this point you can already download and watch any recorded music experience on you portable device. Will the Ipod or similar devices eventually lead to the demise of live performances all together replaced by convenient hand held personal pocket concerts?
This piece is geared towards engaging others into a conversation on what direction you think the live experience is headed with the pathway that technologies are currently on? Is there a future in live shows?
Let me know what you guys think?
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May 28, 2008 at 7:59 am
megan5
Interesting piece!
This is similar to what I posted earlier about the internet and the live experience. There are so many sites out there dedicated to recording live performances and then up loading them onto the site for people to download and watch.
I do believe that as technology changes people will become lazier, but not to the extent that the live experience will be wiped out all together.
From the reserach I have conducted I have found that the live experience is just that an experience and a very social one at that! People want to see and feel a connection with the performer that I feel is lost through the use of technology.