The importing and exporting of music used to be a relatively costly process. Due to the internet it is now incredibly simple for people to discover created from people all over the world. The people that make music can now distribute their work with minimal costs and don't have to depend on a record label. This is also speeding up the turnover of music; trends alter in the space of six months, especially where digital music is concerned as it can now be made to quite high standards in a home studio, and then uploaded to the web in minutes. It can then be posted on a blog site and downloaded by thousands of people all over the world.
This means that as music is now more likely to be digital rather than being physical like a record or a CD; people see music as something that is more disposable and less precious. Which for me means that sleeve design and live performance are more important than ever in the music industry.
Thoughts for possible development include:
digital trade, physical trade
Piracy, digital policing, media industry failing to realise potential until recently
ownership
physicality vs. realism
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