{"id":96,"date":"2009-02-03T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-02-03T08:55:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:55:02","slug":"shop_for_composers_online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/02\/shop_for_composers_online\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop For Composers Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;ve been thinking about the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/\">Etsy.com<\/a> a lot lately, as it might relate to the composing and performing market. If you&#8217;ve never shopped there, it&#8217;s basically a connector site for crafty people, allowing them to sell their wares in an Amazon-like online shop. It&#8217;s popular among Baltimore crafters, which is how I first encountered it. I&#8217;ve stood behind young women balancing towers of packages at the post office as they sent out their creations to customers across the nation. It inspires me in a way that kicks me gently in the butt every time. They get to do what they love, and despite the odds, they&#8217;ve found a way to sell it to a much broader base than the traditional card table at the local flea market. That probably translates into an exponential increase in units moved and income earned. And they haven&#8217;t had to change their art one bit to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>In the age of the digital copy, the money for music is arguably best found where the real people are, and ordinary people don&#8217;t often know how to buy new music (the creation itself, not the recording&#8211;a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automaticheartbreak.com\/commission.html\">Corey&#8217;s project<\/a>) or any of the arts for themselves. What if everyday people could link up with everyday artists to buy original art or performances in an organized, store-front way? Steve Reich might not need\/want such commissions, but I bet there are a few composers out there who would. Samples and user reviews would help customers wade through the offerings with less pressure to pander to a single imagined demographic. Want to buy local? Search by zip code! Old concept (immortalize me in oil paint and I&#8217;ll let you sleep in my barn), new packaging. <\/p>\n<p>Am I out of my mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the site Etsy.com a lot lately, as it might relate to the composing and performing market. If you&#8217;ve never shopped there, it&#8217;s basically a connector site for crafty people, allowing them to sell their wares in an Amazon-like online shop. It&#8217;s popular among Baltimore crafters, which is how I first encountered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}