Music today has no meaning.

This is a letter, to a school.


Music is one of the few art forms that can transcend every aspect of human civilization. Yet still speech directs song. While music affects emotion, it is also created from feelings. Through the romantic aspect of time-less sonnets or a ballad of a waltz; this can be seen. The other hue of the gradient are the strong war marches that soldiers of the days of civil revolution walked proudly towards the fields of death to.  It has evolved from rumbling snares and hallowed horns into thought pattern on a silicon circuit board. Logic ?
Taken in from our days of infancy, by the sound of a mothers loving lullaby (for those lucky enough) and played on even after death. There is melody.
A pulsar star, far away generates its own symphony. Another star explodes sending transients fluttering towards infinity. Foot-steps on the snow gently crush billions of frozen water drop-lets.
Yet the average listener can not tell when a chord changes in a song. An experienced musician will question what note it changed to, and those ever so few will hear the rust on the strings, for if not tis was an mp3. Sound as a sense of the human body is strangely taken for granted....even if it is the driving force that keeps our heads up, and our bodies straight (the inner-ear balances the human body). I am not quite sure which order of importance the hierarchy follows, but it would seem logical that it is, sight, taste, touch, sound, smell. With-out doubt sight is the most important for the same reason cinema is always a profitable endeavor  But even if so, a sense is still manipulated by perception and than rationalized into reason. When for example a timbal is struck, for a slight moment human thought disappears and pure energy consumes the small time it takes for reactions to quickly absorb the moment.

Economics have forced music into quite a tight corner. In one direction is the use of out-dated technologies to help distribute it. Along with a renascence of nostalgia. With bands (confused) seeking a new direction to 'innovate' while just circling back to older technologies (every-one looking towards analog mixers for solutions, ie; the white strips). Of course the humor is of ancient technological techniques such as the use of flames to reproduce sound (look it up! at the turn of the century there was some freaky ideas going around). The whole ensemble of this direction seems rather lost in clouds of fantasy. The other direction there is the humbled price of selling nothing more than ones and zeros, electrical current, frequencies and bandwidth. The packaging, marketing, and publishing alone ask for as much attention to detail as the recording process itself. With one wrong word in a small review on some start-up.com and the viral capability of a songs capability to capture the imagination fades.
The internet is at large a very good way to waste time. Having disposable funds it becomes a great way to waste money as well. Some products available simply attack the curiosity of us to discover what lies behind the buy me button, others captivate visions of grandeur to only deliver the core of the promise in the cleverly blind-full advertisement. There is a rather large portion of the web dedicated to experimenting with new directions, formats, technologies, and all sort of gizmos or front-ends. Yet still none has delivered a voice operated d.a.w. Because in the process of ever doing anything by the rules of economics, plenty of time has to be taken into things such as financial risks, analysts...damages, and all that mumbo-jumbo. Most of the time, nothing is done in the world of economics just on a gut feeling (even if all those t.v. dramas bleed out the idea of a bad-ass who does every-thing by gut, helping to program the perfect buyer.). Even if there is a slight hope in the form of blue ray discs, the average consumer will not invest in a car stereo with blue ray capabilities, when the option of having a wonder-full mp3 player is that much better. Most manufactures wont pay the bill towards the industry giants to sell the damn technology over, and it is easier to just add the function of aux to a car stereo than the whole package of blu-ray.. Personally I agree with not using automobiles to sell music though, as I stand against the petrol industry, long story.Than as if to have the super-power of technology crushed by kryptonite, and the possibility of going up-ward raped from us. People today use the time on-line to be counter-productive. The sheer library of games (point-less games where you collect eggs from a chicken, and click on jewels) has probably grown to be larger than the library of actually beneficial soft-ware. Given that others spend time developing spy-ware and viruses, technology has been tainted with the ever so curious bug of the human condition. Musicians have to face surfing the web with no guide. After sorting through the labyrinth of becoming some-one in virtual reality, there is the danger of wandering to other 'social net-works' and getting daringly lost in a heart of silicon. Things such as trolls and cyber bullies, (god do I hate acknowledging um) the anonymous crowd that pulls and pushes negativity depending on all those 'cyber-elements of conversation'. Of course it is easy to stay focused and drive straight through the mess of technology, and wither away in a cave some-where. Some musicians embrace, others can barely use it, some copy what 'innovators' before them have done (at times just days before hand). While there's the negative nancies that just complain "technology is the devil!" and won't embrace it. The new frontier, with all these division is great for economy! With the right marketing a clever recording studio, or production company could sell a 'product' over multiple available castes/markets. Tried and tested techniques such as sending via mail a catalog of blue ray cds for some-one to buy at a special discount price. Eh, economics is a funny thing to get involved with. Mostly because of how investors are persuaded  funds raised, and stocks sold...rr traded. Personally I get along with money as well as a monkey does with a Swiss army knife and a bottle of wine. Luckily this trouble creates jobs for others because that is just the way the system works. A long time ago the driving force behind the sales of vinyl discs, decades ago, were the sale-representatives. They were happy enough with an income that allowed them out into a fancy night-club and into the conversations of the working musician of the time. They visited homes of artists, just by knocking on the door and saying "Good morning I am from rca". "88 cents for every vinyl sold, other guys might offer a buck twenty, but that 88 cents is guaranteed". Back then, it may have been hard to under-stand how a piece of plastic could transform into money just by sitting on a shelve with a pretty picture, but it worked. High-
society bought record players, speakers with technological advances that some-times were just made up and the cogs kept on turning. The musicians, got their worth for stepping into a studio. Even if the caliber of the artists featured was grand, because of the size of the world most musicians humbled together in rather small 'communities'. Sales representatives have to sort through so many more artists and venues these days. The out-break of some band at a college party to the next head-liner at the warped tour is to probable, and than yet there are thousands of bands with-in the rural portion of America. A bit of guidance and direction (some-times discipline as well) is all it takes to push most of these artists to greatness. Yet the vast ocean of our world today drowns those that can not swim. A sales rep. today has to be  super-human to actually accomplish something. Whether it is their false personality that brings a smile to the teeth of every-one they meet, or their blunt persuasion  Stories have to be told, and bonding has to occur, than the failure to success ratio has to be un-motivational. But all of um have to have a business card to be taken serious. Let the dust gather on your vinyls. Plastic disks brought years after the vinyl yet again boomed the music bizz along with a great deal of cash to the stocks of plastic (another by product of petroleum btw). And yes, because music forced man-kind to use so much bloody plastic, it helped in the development of the world as we know it today. Heck all the graphics techniques and packaging methods derived as direct out-comes from music should be paying royalties to organization such as the musicians union. To bad all these rock-stars are so cool and laid back. Than though, it was as if gold mines were being discovered every-where and everyone was making money. About 20 years later, today, the price of a blank cd has gone so low that it is impossible to sell them for a profit. People are slowly forgetting the 'fidelity' of pcm over wav and actually prefer having 1000 songs of diminished quality over 10 of exceptional sound (don't blame the ipod, mp3 players were out long before it).
Today's sales are of almost non-existent material. The digital age of man-kind has finally begun to blossom from infancy to child. Baby steps are staggered slowly on planet earth as more and more artists (fill the diaper up with crap...god I wish I could use that analogy, but that would be an ignorant thing to say) search for their audience.

A typical musician today starts off in some club some-where or a street in a crowded field of possible consumers. Yet the idea of seeing the crowd as potential customers is morally incorrect just for the sake of being cool. Here they do what I call fishing. Waiting for some-one to walk by that offers opportunity in any form, but is cool enough to satisfy a barbaric ego. It could be another shadow, who is out hunting for an artist to bring to the home-studio and further his/her credentials as a 'producer'. It could be a small start-up kid with a dream of launching (yet another) internet radio. Or a client with an invitation to play some party (yay!). That opportunity is than appreciated for all it is worth, and a small social web begins to string itself up. To say the musician has no income, make explaining things easy....as that musician is forced to live out of the kindness of strangers. Of course the strangers appreciate the art and show so, as long as the music keeps playing. After being a social butter-fly opportunities to have his/her music featured in a film, or a t.v. commercial begin to appear and soon a revenue begins to come in. That is one way that music has changed ?
For some-one like myself, I prefer to sit in the back and watch all the lovely people agitate them-selves in a fury of hurry. Choosing to be temperate rather than chaotic. I hear count-less stories of how others will make it big and question why they think of just themselves. Once a step is taken from the back to the front, there is so much attention awarded, so many names to remember and so many people to listen to, all of which ask to help in any-way possible. I then explain what I want to do and we go back to our separate paths. I pride and respect music much more every-day.
The consumption of paper alone, from the early days when it was used to write down the simple drawings of a now obsolete (well almost) method for dictating music, to today's tabertures should be a pleasant reminder to the financial contribution made by music. The staggering electrical bills from places such as Abbey roads, and the jolt in house-hold bills from the invention of the electric guitar. Pianos sold for prices as high as the wealthiest of us would pay for (and still do). Because of music count-less currency has exchanged hands and still does. Families hold on to grand-pas old bo-diddy, just out of remembrance of them old barn dances. Music is one of the driving forced behind the modern world. Yet very few under-stand just home much of an influence it has been. Today the significance of it feels as if music can be very easily replaced. Even more so, it feels as if its place is as a hobby, or a stress-relief thingy. More and more guitars are manufactured each day, by more and more manufactures. Electric guitars are for sale in boxes at wal-mart with a guitar amp that offers 'over-drive' for 50 bucks. Why spend 5000 on a Gibson ? Coupon codes go up to cd baby for the acquisition of digital downloads. Itunes sells individual songs without the album! There is evidence that music is either falling apart or spreading all over the place. Economically speaking music is still a high contributor  Just keeping the lights on at guitar center should cover the taxes it takes to pay the wages of welfare.

Socially everyone wants to be a musician. So much so that the word has lost its meaning (well to me any-ways). And every-one claims to be a producer even though they barely have enough money to buy some threads... There is no-longer a competition to see who is better than who. Everyone gets what they want, if they don't like it, there is another musician further down the street playing what-ever you want. If that doesn't work, find a quite spot, take out your 20 dollar pawn shop acoustic and jam away. People walk-by, sing loud enough and maybe they'll come by with a bit of attention (girlies!). Vanity has not faded away either. The real rock-n-rollers still wear eye-make-up and pink jump-suits with pride. That un-relentless drive to be different from the crowd. Elegance has always been the triumphant allure for the under-studied. Passion though is one which brings composition and improvisation to life, and I have seen way to many pretending to be passionate. Though I would hate to say that music to-day has no meaning or feeling, or composition. The perfect excuse is that if Alice Cooper did not do it, than Rob Zombie or Ozzy did it (or the Simpsons). But more importantly pretty much every single possible melody and combination of lyrics with every possible effect of stage presence has been done before. The direction towards noise and experimental is about the only progress for music left (or so it seems). Innovation has gone to such extends as a dude on roller blades skating back and forth the board-walk with an electric guitar and a guitar amp as a back-pack. Tip-bucket ? Innovation is also a few hundred radio controlled fliers putting on a laser show a hundred times better than the music itself. But yet still, a concert is still limited to full frontal exposure. Very very few live shows incorporate the use of a field surrounding the audience. Than infra-sonics get ignored for the sake of a clean low-end. But in truth infra-sonics build the foundation of harmonics for every other frequency produced by instruments. While it is power-consuming and complex to incorporate infra-sonics into a modern day open air array system, it is one of the next steps towards progress. Engineers would have to program un-heard sine waves into a performance based on mathematics alone, but some-company would create a soft-ware that makes it easy. While the idea of having standing walls in the audience rattle bones as they emit only the 200hz and below region of the bass guitar and kick drum. Other towers with-in the audience just the guitar mics, and so forth and so forth to create a walking land-scape of sound at a concert venue. The audience would no longer be standing in front of a stage and the next bit of progess would have been made. Screw 'holograms'.

I myself have a deep passion for every sound that can not be heard and seek out the (potentially dangerous) low-ends. I believe that wind itself is an infrasonic wave of exceptionally low frequency and varying levels of db. A breeze can be measured by time, just as a perceived sound can. Though a radical way to see the world, the theory holds true with an example of a pipe organ. At the base of all the sounds generated by the 'wind' is the frequency of 1, which is the air flowing through the pipes.....after which, by reeds it gets modified into the various other calculated frequencies, of which can actually be perceived by the human ear. And yes, most annoying it is that we still regard what we can not perceive as being non-existent. Limited we are to sight sound touch and smell. But dang on it, the vibe at M.I. is pretty bad ass :).
 
We listen to music when we fest, when we sleep, when we meditate and when we make love and pretty much when we do anything. It was once appreciated  and it was once considered a science. But sadly today industry has transformed music into a way to sell some-thing cool. Investors always check for 'demo-graphic acceptance' and it is as if music has been turned into advertisement. Many albums sell the idea of being empty headed and buying some of the latest fashion trends, helping fuel the industry of h&m, abrecombie, and levis. Than even as many albums help sell the idea of 'yo I got a fast car, so fast itd be a nascar'. The whole internet expansion has begone songs that sing about video games, helping sales of endeared games over those that do not get melodies. But what does it all mean? Simple. A musician is responsible for regarding him-self as a significant high placed aristocrat with the power to sell bubble gum to 5 year olds just like a bakery sells hot bread. But the problem remains in what has been done to society. Every cookie cutter pop song has numbed the minds of the masses to the extent that now more people are on out on the streets taking their medication and showing up for therapy than need be. The cause as most people put it is an economic crisis. Music is a driving force of economics, and if we continue to let it be raped and plundered the only out-come will be more and more clinically insane pill poppers. A good example of how music can afflict the masses into becoming hordes of programmed animals is the whole ganster rap industry. With incidents of people being shot just because of the music they listen to. Mucho discriminate ! The lyrics in the songs take on the dark aspect of life and use it to rocket sales. And out of all the truths (exaggerated in the lyrics) the one most present is the one about being the hardest dog in the pen. For every rapper that tries to paint the others as flakes and tards, that is another bullet out on the streets. A good example is hip-hop music...rr rap music as a pillar of influence among people. Take for example the simple construction of today's pop songs. 4 on the floor and absolutely no more. Than a few whining words about love with lyrics that even a 5 year old can under-stand and all of a sudden the song sells to every single possible human on the planet. Add a bit of gossip on the American tabloids about the artist and it makes it to the top of the charts, soon every other country follows Americas next big hit and it is a global epidemic. A straight drum beat, a boring bass-line, and a whining teenager's diary are all it takes to make a hit it seems today. But the use of the music is rather more of a social weapon than a catalyst for positivity (ya I know I sound like a teletubby) in  these genres. There are still plenty of musicians who keep music pure from any form of 'social corruption'. With the help of the internet the affects can be mulled down, with rappers like Nas rapping about unity over cruelty  and every-other vo-ip star bringing love back to the mother-land. But my clique in NYC still raps about stacking bricks like legos, calling shots like three throws, most of those rappers live with their ma and make not even enough to pay the charge at a studio. Live to them is in some living room after having smoked up enough bud to paint the walls green, ya a few of them get off the couch and down to time square with a cd made in magix music maker with some beats off of youtube.
Society has learned to protect itself from taking in more damage, vendors licenses are sold to those who wish to be considered street performers (obviously filtering out the dudes that just vagabond the streets). Police enforce strict laws against public performances and yet the wise can still play their music for free (as long as it is good). But when big money takes music and turns it into a Trojan horse for selling nike tee-shirts, that is when the real damage is done. Luckily, because of freedom there is still the option to opt out and not to listen (or perform). Sadly enough, that is where cinema comes in. Block-busters wolf down the throats of innocent people bits and pieces of a culture driven to buy. Clubs put on the songs that make the charts and the charts are disciplined by what modern society deems as best sellers. Strange how if a recording sells enough copies it is considered to be recorded well. When in truth all it needs is an 808 kick and a side-chain, the rest is voodoo magic.
On the lighter-side of things there is still free-form jazz, and neoclassical. Along-side easy listening and indie. There still is rock-n-roll and punk has yet to die (all the crusties along holly-wood boulevard are an atonement to punk culture, to me any-ways). Most of these bands formed of working class hero's who actually stay actively present in the scene. Some of whom dedicate the rest of their time off to learning how to use pro-tools and record at home. Liberating music from what-ever is keeping it tied down. While others just have a hard time finding a studio that does not treat them as a piece of meat. "20 dollars an hour! Non-negotiable !" When some-one takes time from socializing with friends and has a job that pays the rent and has the liberty to create music just out of pure passion, hearing or reading things like that about a studio kinda deters most musicians away. Since most have made it far enough in their lives to have a pleasant place as a contributing member of society. It only makes sense to obtain the skills required to create a few mp3's with the availability of today's technology (and pricing). Many studio techniques of today have been cultured up this way. But, for some reason a more modernized negotiation between the studio and the band, a more brotherly agreement is non-existent. Take for instance instead of charging a band 20 dollars an hour, 1 percent of off ticket sales is the price. That band in return can then use the name of the studio, and all works from the studio as a stepping-stone. Further, the band is open to bringing in new clients in, if just for conversational piece. Yet so many folks are scared of saying things like that because they get labeled as a foony rambler who live in unicorn and rainbow land. Yet it is only of intellectual discussion to best benefit all parties of a discussion. As well as the studio acquiring for the band new ventures, in terms of shows, concerts, students, what-ever! As culture transforms itself from the slavery of the dollar bill, the music industry will undoubtedly flex in the direction of the pull (to bad industry giants still end up paying the bills).

The psychological exponent, turns a mortal man into a god. Every desire fulfilled  most wishes granted, all options open. Though, I would say that level of living is easy to achieve in modern times. But great as that position may be, it is a very demanding avenue of life. A quick wit and a sharp-tongue are skills that help to fend off the barrage of questions asked by thousands of strangers attempting to take down the persona of a rock-star. A day off means to escape all those that question 'so when did you start playing', 'how long have you been playing', 'how many microphones do you own', 'whats your favorite vst', 'who do you look up to', 'have your herd of this girl'.... Knowledge, aids in response to others. Question after question to be redeemed in the eyes of the other man (or woman) instead of tossed aside in the pit of "more use-less people that I know". Being an actual staple in the industry of music is not as easy as just getting into a studio and hitting record, or jamming away on the drums every day. Being a leader helps, taking decision with the best interest in mind a plus. With all this effort being drawn out, one wrong step could screw up some-bodies mind real, bad. Some-one who has a very very high separation from reality working in the field of music stands tall longer than a musician with no driving fantasy on the realm. That said it also takes an incredible imagination, and under-standing. In the studio the other folks around just do not under-stand a bloody thing going on and actually just want the recording done. Responsibility towards others opinions and perspectives, a pretty good quality to know how to utilize. There is a small buffer, so to speak, all the hectic confusion around the industry does get managed a bit. Through the loose ends of bad royalty deals, session musicians with umbragous pasts. There is alot of conversation to be had, and considering that some of it gets in the way of getting things done (waste of time). So if the working class did not exist, today's musicians, I feel, would not be able to cope with the barrage of curiosity out-there. Daily questions about the difference between a bass and a guitar can be answered by someone a bit more self-sufficient such as a member of the working class. Than dipped in a bit of tar, or embellished in pride, the working class also uses their free time to satisfy their curiosity via books, movies, and self education. Each person whom educated them-selves is another individual that gets musician to progress a bit further. Yet still frustration from never getting anything accomplished build up to a ritual where if there are no voice-mail messages than there is no reason to go out-side. While Others get mad that all the work put into music set them aside as a pariah and are constantly angry. Some frown, some cry, to some music can be a beast to others a saint. Personally I do not like the bit of "proving grounds playground" routine that goes into acquiring new clients or doing anything towards getting on stage (mainly because the preparation before getting on stage is a long and hard one.). To me the ideal way to do things is meet some-one worth-while, tell them to show up on a good day, meet up and get to work. The whole get a(lot of) drink(s) and hang-out with the deejayy scheme does not work either (to many folks found out the secret to getting in the v.i.p), besides it is not good to mix pleasure with business. Handing out business cards is a 50-50 game of black-jack where the conversation the day after (or when the client calls) is harder than explaining to a dog why he's on a chain. And honestly, why waste the paper ? The whole 'social web 2.4' crap defeats the whole purpose of being involved in music, instead of going out to concerts and meeting people....a producer is stuck online on a chair in-front of a computer. To make things worse a recording supervisor (audio engineer, producer, whatever) already spends enough time in front of a computer editing and mixing. There is alot of stress that comes chasing after any-one working in this
field. It could be that all the anxiety of modern man gets channeled through to music (voodoo magic). But it is really sad when some-one loses it. That is why the ability to stay focused is very important. Now in today's times, there are alot of things that are considered creepy, or weird, or down-right degrading. There are clients that have little secrets that can not be discussed with anyone. Music as stress relief? Producer=therapist! So yes in a few words the psychological exponent is an infinite ward of craziness.
The positive side of folks that are sex crazed (and explorative), narcissistic  self-centered, insomniacs, glaringly dominant, schizo  bi-polar, and all kinds of ways. The self-centered people are easy to be around, as everything that happens for them makes them happy, and a happy person helps for a happy vibe. Narcissistic are easy to deal with as well as long as there is a mirror around, and they'll help keep things looking pretty ! And my skills to pretend to be listening aid much more. Yet the other problems could be beneficial in some way or another. Folks that are dominant go pretty well with my passion for fencing and MMA types of martial arts. Insomniacs are great for long, long sessions spent working (go get coffee please), and seeing some-one awake after 12+ hours helps motivation  Yet the bi-polar folks can give the most criticism on a mix, on one pole they like it, on the other they don't, along side with the schizo folks. So a powerful mind, and a positive attitude are very important in the ocean of drifting notes that bring forth the constant waves of sound. Though the more thought I put into questioning how exactly working in music could drive some-one to insanity, the less I believe that it would. There are no dangerous fumes, no hazardous radiation, but at times there is open flame and high voltage. While the stress level is never enough to bring any-one at wits end as there always is a good replacement a phone call away. The only real way to get out of a solid-mind set is to be irresponsible and allow peer-pressure and things of that sort to bring ya out of the sunshine and into the dark ?. Yet so many artists have psychological problems, isn't music supposed to be healing ?
While the other position of living a peachy life and having the psychological problems of a bored house-wife can be avoided by having a bit of faith in strangers....In a way.

I tend to stay on the bright side of life. Never turning an ignorant eye to the trials and tribulation that go along-side living. Of course, happiness is some-times regarded as insanity by others in hopes of coveting that persons joy and taking it away.
In the studio, at times, words are thrown around to help remove the veil that people wear (and in day to day life as well). I feel that if any-one does not respect a proper ethic-ate  Do not work with them until they learn some manners. Further-more, delete all recordings and midi and throw their ass out :). From a psychological point, this could show a dominance over the herd, a back-bone for all the years of preparation  A gesture such as this in the studio could also re-enforce the hierarchic of responsibility.... But on the negative side, it could end up with the loss of another client, a bit of violence, or a very bad reputation. Than again....if people are talking about how bad a studio is (ie; "They have all this bad-ass gear but their complete assholes"). That could be used as great publicity. The bad-boy in American culture has always been seen as the hero (for some weird reason).
Perception is another element which takes down presentation at times. For example when an edit of a mistake was needed, or a track over-dubbed and removed at just one second of time, that little olive in the fruit-bowl leaves a bitter taste only to those who knew about it. Yet this little olive can turn into a monster which devours everything else recorded, composed, and brought to the recording. Turning a song into just "pay attention right here right now and see if the mistake is evident" "Look at peoples faces...ask them now ! now dammit!". The drive for perfection is one that has been eternal in the hearts of men (and women).
Trends, mimes, verbal propaganda, slang, thoughts, feelings, there are so many variables that go into a complex formula involving music. And so much comes out. Once a person hears something in the form of melody it makes perfect sense to than use it in dialog.
The evolution of simple rhythm patterns came be traced back to decades of growth from every person on this planet. Every-day more and more sound happy to hear something that they know on the radio. Question not if life is a happy melody but accept it for the joy it brings. Every-day and every-second. Rain, Sun, Morning and dawn....Never let a moment bring you down.
I hope to grow at M.I. To have a stronger influence. But my conquest is not for power. I search for energy. The stories of vampires can be true if one knows the many deep secrets of the Romanian, Aromanii, and Moldovenii people. Energy from people should be pure, and happy. No reason for any-one to be sad and lonely....that is what I try to attain for the world. A hope to say, in a simple phrase. Love and kindness....though as hard it may seem. With every action for every opportunity kindled by a heart with an ever lasting love. People need this after all the hard direction given as an order over these many years. Anonymous has wished for a voice, the counter-culture of America has finally been discovered. Things of the creepy sorts smiles a thought on paper.

A bit into my train of thought may confuse the average reader... for the sake of discussion and management of responsibility for (doctrine) wishes? Hopes?
Let me re-phrase. I wish to become a student at Musician institute under the profession of audio-engineering. Some of the projects I have under-going as of now are rather groovy. Currently I offer custom made plug-ins for people. Than there is the introduction of usb chips to main-stream industry. Basically the idea is as simple as can be. An artist that wants to sell their music uses a solid format instead of an electronic format. Though the usb chip is still technically electronic, it is hand-held, thous producing in the hands of the consumer the psychological impact of actually obtaining an object of value. In this case, a work of art. Given the option of more storage than can be transmitted by the waves of internet. An 8 gb transfer is pain-staking to long for the average person. At just a mere 15 minutes of time, it will be some-thing forgotten, left in the past and discarded in a pile of sort through mess for later as the average attention span is getting smaller and smaller (iradio from apple is having case battles over how many seconds of a song counts as a play and how many count as a preview atm.).
So the usb chip, until the time being that internet connection will increase in speed have a short life span of market value. The usb chip, with lets say 8 gigabytes of pictures, movies clips, and other bands that a said artist would have worked with. The usb chip than becomes a new form of distributing culture. Than it is possible to create a new kind of fan. With attached html links to sites online that relate to the music in some way or another ($$$$) (talk about a Trojan horse). Truly though, once the internet connection speeds up to where 8 gbs takes 8 seconds that is when the usb chip will dwindle in value. Right now, there is a bit of format war over ac3, ogg, flac, mp4 ? and what-ever else there is (wma). But once a faster internet connection is installed world-wide, .wav will finally become the most used format (of course storage capacities will grow as well).
It is a good twenty years, so the time to act is rather chill.
This idea, with the usb chip, has been a simple idea of mine since of this winter. Witnessing in California first hand the truth behind the current situation with music. Having stayed informed with the help of recordingreview.com (and other online sources, and published magazines (anything I could get my hands on)), mostly the forum aspect of the site. (I actually helped get sound-cloud on the site :).
But yea.... having talked to Americans about their questions about industry and seeing and learning pretty much every ridiculous thing possible about audio recording. I grew a love for the ability to capture great moments between people, in the form of audio. Music to me is not just a bunch of notes played to a rhythm  it is actually the energy that drives those people to move their bodies according to the instrument and feelings. Let me just leave it at that.

Obviously some reason why I wish to attend M.I. is to have a good excuse to hang out with a rather great group of people whom which will help in the development of some actually use-ful things. Whether it be by exhibiting, or via executing. But never by exploiting. I want to transform the meaning of the word concert. To take down the limited frontal interaction. A round stage, with a crowd that can circle the land-space around the scene. Pillars of sound placed out in the public, some emitting just the drums, 100 feet away another pillar emitting the guitar mics off the marshals  100 feet away another pillar with just the singer. Lights do not have to be just on stage, the audience is much more important to the music than the tickets sold. One reason why I avoid going to concerts. I also want to develop a new technology for listening to music. Instead of having no option of interaction with a recording. I want to allow the listener to have control over tempo, maybe key, individual track volume, and truly indulge in a song. I am still surpassed that the furthest advancement is a tag that says the artist and song. That little bit of current technology could scroll the lyrics instead of scrolling the name. But hey, farm-ville put a spell on these voodoo children.
Music has always been a close friend of mine. Many of times it has let me express freedom and liberty with the least amount of words possible. A Pisces born, I body-surf in waves and long for the current to pull me under. That brief second where the friction of water against the skin is warm and the goddess Neptune blesses thee. A quarter of Greek blood-line, and how I like to say, a quarter wolf (Dac) and a quarter vampire (Romanian) and the last quarter still trying to trace down. I happen to be rather unique, or t o say in a comic fashion, strange. Sure, things do get done by the book with me, but often the book winds up having a few pages missing from the editorial, long before the printing press printed the damn thing. Clever I have been since birth, so no wonder working in a field the does not require vision as much as it requires hearing has always enticed me and drew me in. Though it might have something to do with my fascination with the blind. And yes though I hate to force a dialog  or rather a direct monologue in the middle of this important explanation of why I would love the scholarship.... The application did state no character limit. And I bloody love to write ! So excuse me if I may paste down a few more entertaining bits of character here and there. It is important for this application to have a good refraction of the kind of person who writes it up, right?
I prefer snow and cold weather over summer time and hot sun-shine. When I hear thunder, my heart begins to feel more alive. But I hate talking about myself, mainly because I haven't gone sky-diving yet.
Closing statements, this whole written bit is a small fraction of whom I am, and who I can be. The scholarship will help me achieve my full potential :) Cheers!