Final Blog

The intention of my blog from the start was to find ways of discovering new music for free over the internet and discuss how beneficial the different approaches were. I wanted to find places or applications people could search through which were soley devoted to pushing new artists out into the public eye.

I wanted desperatly to stay away from the major music companies and their ideas of putting music out through programming algorithms. In terms of the Internet, there really is no better way of using the programs the majority of society is using because the abundance of resources. The logos of many of these applications are on the right and link to another blog, which gives a pretty descent synopsis of each one. I knew these options are available, as do most people searching for music outside the radio, which is exactly why I found myself struggling to use them in my blog. However, in terms of finding music with extremely user-friendly searching atmospheres, these products are spectacular.

The product I found on the list which seemed most similar to the intention of my blog, would be The Hype Machine. It finds 'key words' or artists across the internet that are being talked about in blogs and on a whole host of websites. It allows you the ability to see the different artists and the number of times they are being referenced along with previews and purchasing options.

The main problem I found with trying to find music by diggin around on the internet, is that I did way more digging through trash sites and much less listening. Word of mouth is bar none the greatest way to find enjoyable music to you because nobody knows you better than a group of your peers. Computers do not have the ability to reason which makes compensating for human emotion and music preference swings impossible.

Music can be broken down into such a science in terms of sounds and how those different sounds interact with different parts of the brain. We as a civilization are already at the point of communicating with computers, the only thing necessary for music to flourish uncontrollably is to establish a connection between mood/emotion and technology. It will be interesting watch music istelf progress through more generations and even more interesting will be the evolution of how music will be obtained. In terms of the next few years, music sharing will remain relatively unchanged and will continue to impress those of us content with listening to what is easy. After 10 years, where the technology capabilities are unthinkable, music will be listened to differently and shared instantly causing music libraries to grow and become much more eclectic.