The open culture rewires our society. p2p practices have been applied to all spheres of human activity, but our relation to music is still a one-way affair: a musician writes a song and you consume it passively.
By design, p2p processes allow many-to-many interactions. They brake the asymmetry between producers and consumers that we find in capitalism and socialism. In other words, anyone can engage in co-creation and the fruits of collaboration are not distributed as products but rather disseminated as commons.
So what is p2p music? It must be open (not canned as a finished product) and participatory (allowing anyone to add to a musical experience).
If p2p music is not created to be distributed as a product, how can it sustain those who engage in its creation and dissemination?
The video below explores these questions and more... Feel free to engage in this reflection by commenting below or directly on the video, on YouTube.
By AllOfUs
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