IT conversations did a great interview with Dave Kusek, my co-author and me, on.... you guessed it: The Future of Music Book. You can download or stream it by going here.
:The music-industry incumbents are threatened by
the new technologies of music distribution. How are they reacting, and
how are musicians using the Internet on their own to make more money
for themselves? In this interview with two music-industry insiders,
Dave Slusher discovers the current state of digital music and possible
courses for the future. David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard are the authors of the new book "The Future of Music" from Berklee Press. This book
examines the assumptions built into the current music industry and its
distribution mechanisms, discusses ways in which the ease of digital
distribution and P2P technologies could be tapped, examines alternate
payment mechanisms and licensing schemes, and looks to the future of
music creation.
David Kusek is a musician, and at the age of nineteen he
co-invented electronic drums at Synare, which helped ignite the disco
era. He is also a co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital
Interface (MIDI) standard that opened up electronic music to literally
millions of people and is currently vice-president of Berklee Music. Gerd Leonhard is a music futurist and entrepeneur, former CEO
of LicenseMusic.com ,a company that revolutionized music licensing,
reducing the average transaction time for music licenses from six weeks
to two hours. He is currently CEO of the ThinkAndLink, a boutique
advisory agency based in Basel, Switzerland and San Francisco."
This interview is from the IT Conversations series Voices in Your Head, hosted by Dave Slusher.
