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Dave Kusek is Vice President at Berklee College of Music responsible for managing the online music school, Berkleemusic.com. Kusek was a co-developer of the revolutionary Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), co-inventor of the first electronic drums at Synare, and founder of Passport Designs, the first music software company. In 2005 he co-authored the book "The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution.
Kusek also runs a consulting business Digital Cowboys providing advice and services to Nokia, Pepsi, AOL, BMG, EMI, A&M Records, Boston Acoustics, Roland, Yamaha, Intel, IBM, Island Music, Nettwerk, Ovation Guitars and others.
Kusek has written for or been featured in Forbes, Billboard, New York Times, Wired, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, MTV, CNBC and Financial Times. He is a frequent speaker at MacWorld, Comdex, NAMM, AES, IEBA and has appeared on NBC-TV, the Nightly Business Report, NPR, and the BBC.
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i loved your book. look forward to educating myself more on these critical issues. thanks for your work. i spread the word often.
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I just started reading you book and I can’t put it down! As the parent of teenagers, and the manager of my son’s band, I had an epiphany about the music business from a teenagers point of view. P2P file sharing is a way of life for them, they are living the future. They have a completely different paradigm of the music industry because the “future” is all they really know.
This book articulates a new thinking that must be embraced by the next generation of music professionals, especially unsigned, independent artists who wish to develop and capitalize on today’s available resources and tomorrow’s opportunities.
Lior Shamir
Managing Director
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You put into book form an argument I’ve been making for years - that digital music and P2P file sharing can do nothing but good for the industry, by empowering both the artist and the fan. Not only that, you answered a lot of my questions about the legal and logistical hurdles involved. I, too, have a dream of “music like water,” and now I understand better what steps are necessary to manifest it. I hope to take your course and contribute.
Music itself can only benefit from becoming more ubiquitously available! Indeed, the thought of every surviving recording made throughout history being a click away is humbling to a former record-collector geek like me, who spent far too much time, energy, and money tracking down out-of-print recordings for the sake of the music alone!
The lyrics ‘blowin in the wind’ are symbolic not only of the social revolution of the 60’s but also of the revolution that music is undertaking in the digital age. Far from being something evasive for the consumer it is now more readily available in increasing variety. It no longer blows around us, the digital age has allowed us, the common consumer, to capture the music to essentially own it, manipulate it and add to the value that it brings us in so many different ways - the consumer can now be the owner the contributer the creator the power for change is in our hands. I enjoyed the book and I hope to be part of the global change.
I have started to read the book and it is AMAZING! My blood just starts to flow quicker as I read it. I am a music management student in Finland/UK and this is the stuff that they should be teaching us in the school. Definitely the Future. Thank you so much for a great-great book and I hope You are spreading the information all over the world. Ps. I loved the comments of the majors’ bosses..
I’m an aging hippy american traditional roots muscian who found much to be encouraged with in your book.
Gosh darn it, there IS a place for niche artists in this world and the digital revolution is what is going to take me into the very middle of it…
Hi,
I’m currently writing a paper for my business degree regarding strategies and those that are now employed by indies to cope with changing market forces?
Can anyone recommend any good links?
Cheers
I just finished reading your book, and it was by far one of the most inciteful i’ve read in a while. As many others, I’ve been thinking about the possibilities the future holds for the music industry, and they are endless. Down with the record labels of today and all of their schemes to make a profit for themselves. The music, and the connection with the fans is what matters, not the money. Thanx for a great read, and a new found hope for the future.
I read your book like it was a thriller - which would come as no surpirise to anyone who has read it, because it IS a thriller!
Music belongs to communities - performers, and fans.
RITFW.
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