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Is technology making it harder or easier for new music artists?

Is technology making it harder or easier for new music artists?

The last 100 years have been revolutionary for music but is technology still bringing positive change for the industry?

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The music industry has evolved enormously over the past century. When we look back at the technology that has emerged in that time – electric guitars, synths, amplification, records, tapes, CDs, mp3s – it’s all been for good in the long run.

Even the technologies that haven’t stuck around – minidisk, I’m looking at you – didn’t really have a negative effect on the industry.

But is the future quite so positive?

It seems unlikely that we’ll see the invention of anything as ground-breaking and physical as an electric guitar. Today’s technological advancements are much more software based. 

Euronews Culture spoke to Niall Doorley, founder of the Future Music Forum in Barcelona to discuss whether the intersection between technology and music will continue to be a helping hand for artists.

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What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?

What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?

UP A BUCKLING flight of stairs on Murray Street in Lower Manhattan, the dusty workshop of CTL Electronics is crammed with once-novel relics: cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions, three-beam projectors and laserdisc players from the previous century. Hundreds of outdated monitors are arranged beside money trees and waving maneki neko cats, an installation in a kind of mini-museum run by CTL’s proprietor, Chi-Tien Lui, who has worked as a TV and radio repairman since immigrating from Taiwan in 1961. At CTL, which he opened in 1968, Lui initially sold closed-circuit TV systems and video equipment, but for the past couple of decades, his business has had a unique focus: repairing video artworks that, since the onset of the digital age, are increasingly likely to malfunction and decay.

Many of CTL’s clients are museums looking to restore works by a single artist, the video art pioneer Nam June Paik, who died in

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