From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #276 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, October 13 1999 Volume 04 : Number 276 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Re: MB-5 Asks Who Wins -- and Who Loses -- as MusicIndustry... [Kathleen Presser Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: MB-5 Asks Who Wins -- and Who Loses -- as MusicIndustry... In response to the MB-5 conference. Being a tight wad and free thinker that I am, I somehow feel highly skeptical as to what the future of music on the internet, on the radio and in the music stores will be. It seems very few people in the music industry see music as art instead of just money to be made. Hope they don't put too much of a dollar value on music on the internet. Heck, I kinda like how it is now. It is good to support musicians out there by listening and buying their music. It'll be interesting to see what happens! I hope Robin's friend has a sudden whim to see what the conference is all about. You never know what she'll pick up.. Pax Aye, Kate;-) RThurF@aol.com wrote: > Here's another news blurb about the MB-5 conference in California that I wish > I could attend. I've just found out that a very sweet friend of mine may > attend (her boyfriend is a writer for one of the US music mags & they're > going out for it) The thing is, she's not interested in any of this stuff in > the least (picture my eyes bulging in wonderment!) so she may end up just > sightseeing on her own while she's out there. If she does attend the > conference though, by some grace of God, I might be able to get a > personalized report from her about it afterward! > > Robin T > > SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1999--Who will emerge as the Quincy > Jones of the Internet? Which record company or rising Web mogul -- will > figure out first how to achieve the hyper-profitability predicted for music > on the Internet? What happens to the importance of radio play in a world of > streaming Internet audio? Which artists are upping the ante in artist-fan > relationships by exploiting the Web's interactive capabilities? > > Some of the most progressive minds in the music business debate and > discuss these and other burning music business questions and issues as the > premiere MusicBiz 2005 conference gets underway Friday, October 15, at the > Ex'pression Center for New Media in Emeryville, just across the Bay from San > Francisco. Exhibits and demonstrations of many of the late-breaking > technologies being discussed by conference participants will be on display. > > Such progressive artists and producers as Chuck D, Thomas Dolby > Robertson, and Jerry Harrison will explain their plans for the "next music > industry" powered by emerging music-on-demand technologies. The sold out > exhibit floor at MB-5 features such hot emerging Web brands as Emusic, > musicmaker.com, Liquid Audio, Beatnik.com and Rocket Network. > > "Not since Edison built the first practical phonograph over a hundred > years ago has the industry undergone such rapid and comprehensive evolution," > noted MB-5 Producer David Schwartz. "The business is moving quickly from > selling plastic at stores to streaming digital audio directly into consumers' > homes. This is having a domino effect across the operations of the entire > industry, which is a primary focus of MB-5." > > Day passes to MB-5 are available for $295; a small number of press > credentials are still available. For more information, contact 800/539-9032 > or mb-5@hatschek.com. Or visit the conference Web site: www.mb-5.com. > > CONTACT: > > Keith Hatschek & Associates > > 415/227-0894 > > mb-5@hatschek.com > > or > > MCAnet, for Ex'pression Center for New Media > > Jack Lyness, 510/834-1852 > > www.mcanet.com ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #276 ***************************