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Brian Eno: “refreshingly democratic art”

Art rock god and accidental pop mega producer Brian Eno recently published an article in the UK’s Prospect Magazine. It’s rare these days to find credible people profess optimism for the state of the recorded music business, but Brian manages to squeeze out a little gem here:

The pressure is on to develop content that isn’t easily copyable—so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell. Of course they’ll still want to sell their music, but now they’ll embed that relatively valueless product within a matrix of hard-to-copy (and therefore valuable) artwork. People who won’t pay £15 for a CD will pay £150 for the limited edition version with additional artwork, photos, booklet and DVDs. They often already own the music, downloaded—but now they want the art. They’re buying art, and they’re buying it in a new way. That suggests to me the possibility of a refreshingly democratic art market: a new way for visual artists, designers, animators and film-makers to make a living. So, as one business folds, several others open up.

www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10784