(Chris Fahey)
quoted 3 lines * Has it occurred to you that many drum and bass musicians> > > * Has it occurred to you that many drum and bass musicians
> > > make most of their living off of selling their music to
> > > advertisers?
(Steve Luckabaugh)
quoted 4 lines Really? Most d'nb musicians? why are there so few adds> > Really? Most d'nb musicians? why are there so few adds
> > featuring it if
> > it's so widely sold? This doesn't make sense. Where do
> > you get your information?
(Danny Wyatt)
quoted 2 lines Well, "many" musicians making "most" of their money off ad> Well, "many" musicians making "most" of their money off ad
> rights is not unfeasible.
Which is of course what I said. Thank you for reading my exact
wording carefully. The fact is that an artist (even worse, a band) can
hardly make a decent living even if they sell 50,000 records, a number which
essentially consititutes a fantastic runaway hit in the IDM world. On the
other hand, the profits from one Mercedes-Benz ad can probably beat all of
most artists' lifetime record sales combined.
BUT WAIT:
And yes, I know a lot of electronic musicians who do in fact make
some money on the side doing advertising jingles, CD-ROM soundtracks, stock
music work, etc. I wonder how many "famous" IDM artists do this work on the
side. I wonder how many do this kind of work openly and how many keep it
secret. I'm not talking about licensing their music for advertisements, I
mean doing contracted work for hire. Anyoone know?
HERE'S THE KICKER:
I wonder if IDM itself is an art form whose parentage can at least
partly be traced to the shadowy world of mullet-headed Keyboard
Magazine-reading home studio advertising-jingle wonks.
-Cf
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