This year Digital Week 2009 extends across the whole of the Yorkshire region, shining a light on the creative and digital stars from Sheffield to Scarborough, Barnsley to Bradford, Huddersfield and Leeds where, for the second year running, the week concludes with the return of the Drum Awards for Digital Industries.

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Audio Evolution: Digital meltdown or a brave new frontier...?

Digital meltdown or a brave new frontier...a creative wild west or good old fashioned piracy asks John Robb...

The debate rages...just how does an artist survive in a time when music is free? When a political party can from in Sweden protest at the legislation against illegal downloading at the same time as musicians are sneered at for trying to make money and live, there obviously are some big issues to be dealt with here...

At the Audio Evolution: Music in the Digital Age discussion, we will be looking at the massive change in all media created by the digital revolution. How we can use these changes for our advantage, how we can embrace the web and what's going to happen next? Celebrate the anarchy whilst trying to get a handle on what's going on! What do we think about Peter Mandelson's attempts to reign in the downloaders? We celebrate the power of twitter looking at the Jan Moir incident and wonder what is next for social networking, and as we peer into the future we ask are we part of the problem or part of the solution...?

Pop culture has always been about cutting edge technology from vinyl records, the radio and the sixties telecommunications boom- it's now accelerating and sometimes we can't be blamed for being a little lost but the modern media person is internet savvy whilst no-one can quite guess where its going next...for every surefire web launch gets moulded into something quite different by the users...thinking and moving fast is the prerequisite of these thrilling hi tech times...the future is now!


John Robb will be leading the Audio Evolution: Music in the Digital Age event, 9 November, 12-2pm at The Foundry, Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds during Digital Week 09.
John Robb is an author, musician, TV pundit and journalist.

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