Changing Musicians Role

The musician’s role will change drastically with increasing music technology, they will need to adapt to be successful rather than relying or huge record labels. I remember reading (unaware of the exact source) the uncontrollable music piracy in Japan. Musicians must find new avenues of income like advertising for products or appearing on television shows along with continued live performances. Now with the limitless availability of digitally acquired and insurmountable music in people’s hands, consumers and music fans are not going to like getting their music any other way. Music artists who fail to utilize and embrace the Internet’s wide distribution are naive. The Internet’s publicity for music is grand, any musician unaccepting of that is not truly making music for the sake of being heard. I also think that big record companies will become less necessary, if musicians can acquire the technology and knowledge themselves I think they will take the opportunity and be more self sufficient. This will in turn shape the recording industry.