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Recently I've been thinking about the future of live music and how technology could transform the way in which artists perform. One of the things that has stuck me over the past years of researching music consumption and the music industry is how audiences seem not to be thinning out but rather that fans are beginning to become more spread out worldwide; whereas previous musical subcultures were present nationwide, participation in said scene was still restrictive to local constraints (in that you had to be 'in the know with the scene' so to speak). Now that the internet has somewhat globalised the interaction that we have with fellow music fans, is it possible for all music fans at the same time to be physically engaged with a live event at the same time?

 

One of the things that I would use as an example is Bangface. Whilst I was fortunate enough to go (although due to unforseen circumstances I had to leave before any performances started), I was still aware that there were still possibly a huge amount of people globally (especially on this forum) that would have wanted to participate with the festival but couldn't due to globally physical restraints. Is it possible we see a future where festivals become smaller, more communal events take place simultaneously worldwide? As a personal example I'd love to be able to pay to see an exclusive, one off high quality stream (of which the broadcaster of said stream had to pay for access to the stream, thus preventing bandwidth issues) of a festival within a communal context rather and then discuss the performance with someone from the other side of the world the next day. It's arguable whether the technology to do so is reliable enough yet, nonetheless is this idea practical? I just feel as individually our musical tastes will become diversified, we will seek any means where we can engage with fellow fans in a communal context that blends both the physical and the virtual, plus give festival organisers further incentive to carry on whilst attendance levels to the 'real life performance' drops.

 

Just an idea :cisfor:

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On a kind of related note, I quite enjoy getting involved in some of the chatrooms while listening to ambient sets online. You get the same kind of chatter that you get at gigs and festivals -some of it about the music being played at the time, some of it just general conversation- but it doesn't interfere with the, very quiet, music.

 

I've been to traditional-type gigs for ambient but it didn't really work. The music is too quiet to work in a busy room.

 

One of the odd things about this kind of global 'dialling-in' is the timezone factor. We've got people in from all over the world and they're all at different stages of the day. I'm in the UK so I get a lot of them starting at 10 at night, ideal for headphones in bed.

i was on twitter for all of the the last autechre 12 hour livestream and it was fantastic. people were losing their shit over the tracklisting and trying to identify tracks and stuff... was great fun.

  On 5/7/2013 at 9:06 PM, ambermonk said:

I know IDM can be extreme

  On 6/3/2017 at 9:50 PM, ladalaika said:

this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield

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Sort of, but rather than it just being a 192kbps stream (or whatever it is) you end up paying to see a soundboard quality performance in a designated area (which is why I mentioned about the whole paying for a decent server, Boiler Room is pretty unreliable).

 

Also apologies if what I wrote came off as a bit pretentious and badly written, I was pretty drunk when I started this thread...

Well I guess its ok if you know what you are paying for.

 

I remember a few years back Future Sound of London doing some "live gigs" and it ended up being them displayed on a big screen, broadcasting from their home studio via ISDN (which is kinda the opposite of what you are saying. The crowd turned up but the band didnt)

 

Youtube do exclusive live performances don't they?

 

So yeah, I guess thats probably gonna be coming to Sky pay per view soon. Lionel Richie on tour - only £25.00 one night only! Fck.

I don't think it'd work, but I could imagine firing up the projector and inviting my two idm-listening friends over to watch and drink beer... if it was something mind blowingly awesome, i.e. silent films scored by iddem heroes. If it was just a video feed of dudes and dames dancing and artists behind lapotops, hell no.

Some songs I made with my fingers and electronics. In the process of making some more. Hopefully.

 

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Luke Vibert did a real gig broadcasted on Second Life in a virtual club once, I really like that idea and could see that evolving into something.

 

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