Posts Tagged ‘Music’

The Future of Music and the Flat Rate

This topic has been around for a while now. We talked about this very problem in a music business class I took in college (only a few years ago, but for digital things, that’s a while). Is the music “flat rate” the answer for the music industry? I say no. Here’s why. The flat rate [...]

The Nature of Tools: Thoughts on Worship

I just read a blog post yesterday that inspired me to say something about tools. I stumbled across this link on twitter in a search I have up in TweetDeck. So here goes. Is a tool inherently good or evil? How about a fork? Is it good? Bad? Seems a kind of silly question. Let [...]

Balance of Control

After seeing much news about copyright control, the RIAA, and others, I am getting frustrated. I just read this article from Mashable that YouTube is muting audio to respect copyright. Okay, hold up a second. You’re saying that you’re going to force places like YouTube to coform to the old rules about copyright in a [...]

The Value of Real

Here we are in a virtual world. Digital music, virtual games, ebooks, online dating. Pandora’s Box is opened, and we can never go back on the digital world. Not that we want to. However, as evidenced in declining music and book sales, the value of a real product is diminishing. It’s too easy to find [...]

Less is More

I was reading this post on sojurnmusic.com about the keyboard and how to play it in a modern worship band, and I thought that some of it applies to all members of the band. As a musician myself, when playing in a band you want to contribute all that you can. Unfortunately, when we do [...]