![]() ![]() You can’t really look at paintings when you are driving to work. It’s really a remarkable art form in that it’s one of the few forms of creative expression that people can experience while they are doing something else. One of the things that is really exciting about being a musician is taking the music that you made and putting it out to the world and seeing what happens with it. On a very basic level, I make music because I love making music. If I were to be completely honest I’d probably end up alienating more people than I already have alienated. It is a tricky thing to talk about as I have to parse my words. My feeling about piracy and the way in which music exists online is probably a lot different to the way most major labels think about it. When I met with them and they explained to me what their platform is, it just seemed in line with the ethos I have with regards to the distribution of different types of digital media. On the one hand, and maybe this is not an elegant thing to say, the fact there is a degree of controversy surrounding BitTorrent is one of the things that actually made me a lot more interested in it. Were you concerned about working with them? Many parts of the industry regard BitTorrent as synonymous with piracy. Whereas now anyone with a laptop can do really good remixes. ![]() Some of the remixes were good but at that point doing a remix was a lot more complicated. In 1995, we had a remix contest for an album I put out. The quality of remixing software – whether it is Ableton, Reason or Logic – is pretty remarkable. ![]() I thought it would be interesting to put something out there where anyone who downloaded it would be able to do their own remixes and change the songs as much as they wanted to. I met with the guys from BitTorrent last spring and a lot of musicians use BitTorrent as a way of disseminating pre-existing things like videos, single or b-sides. I made them available to anyone who wants to download them and do their own mixes and remixes. I gave them all the stems from my most recent album, Innocents. He talks about using BitTorrent as a distribution partner, why railing against piracy is like yelling at the weather, why technology’s state of flux is a good thing and why algorithms can’t replace the arbitrary and surprise nature of human-led discovery. With a number of artists busily squaring up to both Spotify and the labels about their streaming payments, Moby argues they are focusing too heavily on the short-term issues and becoming beholden to the idea of digital services as immovable monoliths that replaced the cumbersome major label system. ![]()
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