A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~
The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~
...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~
My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Monday, March 23, 2009
The Vanishing Niche
Here's more evidence that the big online distributers are increasingly turning away from niche business, in this case via recommender systems. This is not a good development for new music.
To be a little more precise, the problem is not with all automated recommendation, but with a particular kind of recommender (those that use collaborative filtering). One of my co-workers recently gave a talk at SXSW about this and related problems.
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To be a little more precise, the problem is not with all automated recommendation, but with a particular kind of recommender (those that use collaborative filtering). One of my co-workers recently gave a talk at SXSW about this and related problems.
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