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The blog of conductor Jason Weinberger

'Especially people who sell mp3s, I’m like, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ That’d be like me charging for oxygen. I don’t get it because it’s freely available. I just want people to hear it.'

Mat Cothran, aka Coma Cinema, interviewed in Paste Magazine [via Head Underwater]

I could not agree more, particularly with this sentiment: ‘If you feel the need to compensate us, we only ask that you share the music with others.’

As I have noted in this space over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, my colleagues in the orchestra biz need to grasp the potential for value creation inherent in the open sharing of our concert recordings. When that happens we will have taken at least one step toward twenty-first century relevance.

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    Cinema, interviewed in...could not agree more, particularly with this sentiment: ‘If you...
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  6. freckledredhead said: I went to see them a long long time ago at this little venue in greenville.. very talented. & what a small world!
  7. thatonehelloworldguy said: I admire the selfless attitude, but I think artists are entitled to earn a living with their recordings.
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    Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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