david byrne's survival strategy

[ac]

Here's a little story on how to survive the turbulent music industry ahead:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne

 

[FluxUs]

Singapore? Music industry? great advice of no relevance to us bwahahahaha

 

[ac]

read it.

point 6 i think.

 

[embryo]

To a certain degree I can relate to FluxUs' take on David Byrne's piece.

More to say but perhaps later when I get out of this straight jacket...

 

[AgingYouth]

Hurhurhur... We is still underground, the bastard child that no one wants.

 

[embryo]

yes we still underground still groping about lost in the lalang...we're like the Seattle of the world yet to be discovered, to be exploited and eventually crushed by the industry we longed for and set out to create....

Damn these straight jackets!...now if i cud only get those backstraps off! urrrgh!

 

[androidkoyuen]

industry or no industry, whether we can make a living out of it or not,

people who love music will still continue making music, no?

 

[embryo]

in a word yes. if we can just stop kidding ourselves about commercial viability as the make or break criteria for any creative motivation and stop placing the carriage before the horse...

 

[FluxUs]

i did read it. twice over. very good piece by a tr00 veteran and a great artiste. but the assumption is that there is a marketplace ready to receive your goods and this is of course true of the developed world i.e. US, UK, Europe, Japan so it's about how not get fucked or if you do want to, you read it right there.

In Sin kia poo we can only dream of getting tr00ly and mega-ly fucked by the business..........if there was one in the first place.

 

[embryo]

Clap clap clap! for Thom Yorke, Radiohead and their Manager's brilliant free download option idea.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_yorke

 

[ac]

Well, it's true that if you're not on the kind of bandwagon that taufik or chinese pop idols are on, or in a pub/wedding band, you definitely won't be able to make a living, and there's no real music industry here for the outer limits ( isn't that the same for other countries as well ) but it's nice to hear about people in other countries facing problems and actively trying to get out of.

 

[embryo]

Precisely off mark there.

Culture precedes the industry. Placing the carriage b4 the horse is when you try to create a culture out of an industry.

Don't have to look far look around at all the neighbouring countries of ASEAN and this part of Asia to notice that despite each country's state of political and economic stability they (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc) all have their own culture which has matured to point in current day where it's evolved into a sizeable self sustaining domestic market.

Japan is the finest example in this respect. They have it all from ethnic cultural roots to some of the best world class level composers, performers and artists coexisting in the pop, high arts and underground...

 

[ac]

Well, it's true that if you're not on the kind of bandwagon that taufik or chinese pop idols are on, or in a pub/wedding band, you definitely won't be able to make a living, and there's no real music industry here for the outer limits ( isn't that the same for other countries as well ) but it's nice to hear about people in other countries facing problems and actively trying to get out of.

I'm sorry embryo, you've lost me about how my remark here is off mark.

As it is, to see the problems in other countries and how some deal with it, gives greater insight on how an industry is like, and what it means to be fed music by a machinery geared towards pushing ever greater amounts of plastic.

 

[embryo]

AC bro, apologies if my reply was off mark from ur original intended idea. No offence ever intended on my part afterall there's nothing to gain from any hostility over a subject matter that concerns the very fabric of our so called society. I suppose we're on the same page but perhaps with a different perspective of what we see.

We are a nation of "new money culture" with a short attention span and quick with our tendency to come across as shrewd, cultureless, uninformed and arrogant by our neighbours and developed nations around the world. Btw I'm a born and raised S'porean but am also humbled by what we have not against what we think we have.

The article by David Byrne and Thom Yorke is a powerful message to the masses and the so called music industry of the developed world that thrives on the massive profits from moving plastics to the masses for their cash denying and downplaying the significance of any artistic credibility in music other than

"Hey what's ur name? which one's Pink btw? listen you've got an interesting noise boy!. I dunno what it is but it's so hip so it's gonna sell millions, we love u! here have a Cigar!".

 

[ac]

Hey man, no no, no need for any apologies. It's true culture flourishes before business comes in to make it into an industry. The way i see it, there already is an industry, just not the one everyone likes, and it's just a problem of a small market. The article i linked to just shows how there is so much turmoil and how everyone's taste is manipulated, that everyone should just as well do what they want and play however they want. Culturally we're too diverse to have a single unifying selling point like the japanese or scandinavians, and that's going to get worse with the influx of foreign talents, but i think as long as we persevere, will eventually get something original soon.

OT, but kudos for your efforts of going out there and making a difference.