Motormouth (2011). Bob Ostertag /this deluge of more music/

Bob Ostertag via Wikipedia

Via Free Music Archive, a quote from Bob Ostertag:

The crux of Ostertag's observations is that "This deluge of more music than anyone can hear will change the very meaning of ‘music’ in a profound way."

Ostertab has a (free) download of his new music, interestingly as played on a Buchla synthesizer.

I unfortunately haven't had the time to download this album yet as my listening is currently stacked. On Spotify tonight, I was listening to a Joan Tower Naxos album that I somehow never knew about. Then, Steve Simels posted a "karaoke" version of a psychedelic Rolling Stones song that led me to interrupt Joan Tower and listen on rdio to the second disk of a Rolling Stones hits album that is mostly new to me as well:

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Comments

[Paul Muller]

"This deluge of more music than anyone can hear will change the very meaning of ‘music’ in a profound way."

True enough - also the fact that it is now available to everyone at almost no cost.

But I also think that it means there is now some audience out there for all music - and this is good. Bach never sold scores for income and his audience was the few hundred that attended church services in Leipzig. Art may yet survive in a world with a smaller number of listeners for each kind of music.