I’m traveling to Manhattan this week for the Music & Media Forum and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters national conference. If you’re there, as well, come by and say ‘hello.’ At Arts Presenters I’m moderating a session by four of my MBA students in Arts Administration, on the topic of "How We Make Meaning," […]
Archives for January 2006
If you build it…well, you know
A few folks in Elgin, Illinois, have been mulling over a new concert hall or performing arts center off and on for a long while now. This Wednesday, the city thought enough of the idea to throw $100,000 at a feasibility study on the subject. The study is intended to explore the readiness of the […]
First cocooning, then hiving, and now ‘insperiences’
The folks at Trendwatching.com see a lifestyle trend coming around again this year, which they’re calling insperiences. As opposed to ‘experiences,’ this trend has consumers bringing more and more high-end leisure and entertainment inside their homes. Says they: ”In a consumer society dominated by experiences in the (semi) public domain — often branded, designed, themed […]
Instead of asking for money, let’s just make our own
A fascinating initiative out of Denmark is working to forge a new international currency out of art (not a metaphorical currency, but an actual tradable commodity). Art Money can be used to buy goods and services (admittedly, not in very many places), and each unit of the money has a defined cash value. According to […]
Heritage vs. the marketplace (the marketplace wins)
NPR had a thoughtful overview last night on the challenge of hearing or distributing even fairly recent American recorded music. According to a study by the Library of Congress discussed in the story, "over 70 percent of American music recorded before 1965 is not legally available in the United States." Through issues of copyright clearance […]
How to post resources to the web
There are three things sure to annoy a blogger or other information junkie: one is to know a resource exists (a report, a study, an event, a conference) but to be unable to find it posted anywhere on the web; another is to discover a valuable resource that has been sitting on-line for a long […]
Why you should continue to date me
As an antidote to my other posts this week, which have been a bit abstract and philosophical, I offer this little oasis of web-based whimsy: Joel A. Friesen Why you should continue to date me: a series of charts and graphs The author was attempting to convey a compelling case to a possible future ex-girlfriend […]
The potential of sense-making research
When you think you’re forging a new path through old ideas, it’s both annoying and exciting to find a whole bunch of people ahead of you. It’s annoying because it means your path wasn’t new at all (paths rarely are). It’s exciting because it means you can learn from smarter people, rather than hacking through […]
Can the same person sit in the same concert hall twice?
New York Times critic Anne Midgette muses on the idea that nobody hears the same performance in a concert hall (registration required), even if they are there on the same night. Says she: We think of concerts as fixed entities. In our age of mechanical reproduction, live performance has become — like a book, a […]
Rebelling against the bait and switch
Public radio listeners in Detroit have become openly cranky about one station’s decisions to radically rethink its daytime format. WDET-FM switched from a mix of local programming and music to more nationally syndicated talk programs in December. But a few who gave money during the prior pledge drive consider this change a bait and switch. […]