Signed, Labeled & Represented
It's interesting that the "labels" for being "represented" by someone in art or the music industry are becoming one and the same. I was thinking that music might be more interesting in a "gallery" metaphor, but the boundaries between the domain are more blurred now. Gallerists are becoming Producers and Labels.
In music, working with synths makes it much easier to compose a piece of music because it shortens the time between inspiration and straight to the resultant production, without hiring orchestras for rehearsals and performances. Similarly in digital art, the artist can conceptualize and produce work within hours, and use all the new tools to market it. But this is the case in many industries now, where all the middle operations are being squeezed out by the Internet.
In any event, representation in the future will be much more independent, perhaps using AI, the blockchain and mobile payments: You will represent yourself through your own algorithms. Algorithms as of now are in the black box of the "siren servers", but it would be somewhat of a new Zeitgeist to create your own algorithms, separate from the ones pushed at us from social media. (The Internet works better as a "pull" technology).
In music, working with synths makes it much easier to compose a piece of music because it shortens the time between inspiration and straight to the resultant production, without hiring orchestras for rehearsals and performances. Similarly in digital art, the artist can conceptualize and produce work within hours, and use all the new tools to market it. But this is the case in many industries now, where all the middle operations are being squeezed out by the Internet.
In any event, representation in the future will be much more independent, perhaps using AI, the blockchain and mobile payments: You will represent yourself through your own algorithms. Algorithms as of now are in the black box of the "siren servers", but it would be somewhat of a new Zeitgeist to create your own algorithms, separate from the ones pushed at us from social media. (The Internet works better as a "pull" technology).
