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Music is a ubiquitous presence in our daily lives. In our homes, workplaces and shops, music is the backdrop to our daily lives, and is a common denominator amongst people across the world. Furthermore, music establishes social connections, and is an adhesive particularly amongst younger generations, forming friendship groups based around this common interest. But what is it about music that makes it so important in our society, and how has this come to be the case? In this article we will look at the profound impact of music on our everyday lives and why music has this impact.

The impact of music begins from a very early age. As babies, it is essential to begin to comprehend rhythm in order to anticipate future events, not only for our safety but for our mental development. This is where singing to children comes in. The child’s response to music will be notably positive, particularly if they are involved in the singing. This makes them anticipate recurring parts of the song, determined through the rhythm of the music. Interestingly, there have also been links between music and the treatment of autism, with rhythm an essential ingredient in that process. By encouraging the anticipation of rhythm, music is making new connections in the brain to help those in need.

Music is also a strong commercial tool, and an industry worth literally billions of dollars every year. Even with the threats of technology in recent years, the record industry is still booming, and their marketing power is as strong as ever. In 2003, a survey showed that the involvement of music when we shopped encouraged an increase in spending by up to 30%. Maybe it’s a result of the emotive connection we feel with music. Or maybe it stems from the relax state music can induce. Either way, music makes money at source and as a marketing tool for other people. You only have to look at some of the film and music deals that have been struck over the last decade to see how widespread the impact of music in our lives.

Music is commonly appreciated by everyone, which is strange given cultural distinctions and personal taste. Because there is such a massive scope in tastes and cultures worldwide, so to music differs from place to place. But at the core is the same considerations of melody, harmony and rhythm which drive us as humans and make a deep, spiritual connection.

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Latin Alternative Music Conference, Anima Mundi 2008, Expo Comm Wireless Japan, BritDoc Festival 08, International Children’s Film Festival, NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program, are Some Highlights in July’s Media and Entertainment Industry Career Networking Events

At this year’s AnimeExpo 2008, running through July 6 in Los Angeles, Anime Expo® has teamed with Bang Zoom!® Entertainment to offer free voice acting workshops that will give participants a taste of voice acting with insiders’ tips, general discussions and chances to dub with a professional audio engineer. The free summer film fest in St. Louis, Cinemania, shown outdoors on a grassy lot, starts up July 5 running through July 26, and features musicals like festival opener, An American in Paris, that have garnered 19 Oscars among them. CinemadaMare Film Festival travels across the five main regions of the south of Italy with about 150 filmmakers in tow traveling on the festival bus. At each stop which lasts a week the participants, who can be not just filmmakers but actors, set and costume designer, make-up artists, screenwriters and all cinema lovers, have the possibility of both shooting and screening movies and attend seminars. The Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York, July 8-12, is geared towards the marketing of Spanish-language alternative music. On July 9 will be LAMC Music & Film Night at Central Park Summerstage. ASCAP offers a “one-of-a-kind” experience for aspiring film and television composers during the 2008 ASCAP Television & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles, July 8 to August 1, whereby 12 selected participants will have an opportunity to record their original composition with an “A list” of Hollywood professionals.

The 16th International Animation Festival, Anima Mundi 2008, will take place in Rio de Janeiro from July 11- 20, and in São Paulo from July 23-27. It will present Competition Screenings, Special Programs, Retrospectives, International Guests and professional workshops. The 2008 Ypulse National Mashup Conference that brings together youth media and marketing professionals from brands, agencies and the non-profit sector to share best practices for reaching today’s totally wired youth, is set to run July 14-15 this year in San Francisco. The Connective Panel Series presents “What You Need To Know To Succeed In The Music Business”, July 20 in Decatur, a series that serves to educate indie musicians on the music business, serve as a networking opportunity, and to raise awareness and funds for the Artist Against Hunger & Poverty Program of WHY (World Hunger Year), and music related charities. Expo Comm Wireless Japan, specialized in Wireless and Mobile networks, Personal Area Networks, Internet ITS, home networks, and other wireless technologies for Japan’s advanced mobile society, will be held in Tokyo, July 22-24. This year’s BritDoc Festival 08 in Oxford, July 23-25, features an International Pitching Forum, featuring a panel of Commissioning Editors and film funders, from the US, Europe and the Far East, poised to invest in ambitious British feature length Documentary.

Casual Games Association hosts this year’s Casual Connect Seattle, July 23-25, and is focused on the casual games industry for the general public and families, casual games are non-violent video games that are fun and easy to learn and play. At this year’s Action On Film International Film Festival – known to be a producer friendly festival – Xristos Productions and Sony Creative Software are offering a new ‘Guerilla Filmmaker Award’ that includes a complete Sony Vegas Editing System and Cinescore Composer Package, during festival events running July 25-31 in Old Pasadena. Yale School of Management is the setting for Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders, July 27 to August 1 in New Haven, at which creative leaders in tandem with Yale’s top business experts discover opportunities within the forces transforming the business social environments. The 2008 San Diego International Children’s Film Festival opens on Kids Day at Comic-Con International, july 27 to August 10, at the San Diego Convention Center, presented by Comic-Con International. The festival showcases films from around the world made for children and teens, including live-action, animation and documentaries. The Third Annual Diversity Fellowship Program @ LATV Fest, taking place July 30 to August 1 in Hollywood, is a NATPE Diversity Fellowship Program now in its third year to provide a small group of emerging television and video content creators of color with the next step in their career development.

In a special request for support from the indie filmmaking and film loving community, creators of ‘The Plague: Writers & Director’s Cut’, a socially relevant horror movie dealing with the subject of kids, violence and fear, are seeking public support to have their version of the film released at Sony Pictures Entertainment which published their version to DVD under the title Clive Barker’s The Plague. The effort led by Director/Writer Hal Masonberg has a petition up at: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/plague/signatures.html as well as names and email address of relevant Sony Pictures executives to contact on behalf of this effort at: http://www.spreadingtheplague.com/sony.html.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at most popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist video blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of A Natalie Paige Bentley Film, ‘City of Motherly Love’, the story of a mother’s spiral into anger and self-destruction after the shooting death of her son. Multi-media, make-up artist, performance artist Damon Zex, deriving much of his creative expressionism from German Expressionism and Surrealism. Dance music record company from Australia, Play Lab Records, featuring new single release, ‘Disco, Disco’. Kentucky born Country music recording artist on Aria records, Stephen Cochran.

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During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?

According to Per Sundin, CEO of Universal Music, the decline in music revenues in the past 8 years can be fully attributed to illegal file sharing. If this were actually true, many of us might even respect his decision to go after pirates as fiercely as the music industry is doing right now. However, the past 8 years have seen a lot more changes in the landscape of home entertainment than Per Sundin would like to admit, and some of those changes have had a massive impact on music profitability – much more so than any amount of piracy.

Let us refresh our memories and take a look at what actually happened during and just before the past 8 years:

1. First, the explosive rise of computer and console gaming. This competitive ‘third element’ has appeared in the entertainment landscape, beaten both music and movies to the curb and taken a huge cut out of the music industry’s revenues. Consumers don’t have infinitely-deep pockets, and billions of ‘recreation dollars’ that used to go almost exclusively to music, are now going into gaming.

2. International trade agreements have allowed consumers to buy their music across borders, rather than accepting local prices on music based on the ‘relative wealth’ of nations, rather than the actual value of the product.

3. New forms of distributable media, most notably MP3s but also CDs, have become mainstream. These new media don’t degrade over time and rarely break at all, making music rebuys a thing of the past, and allowing the second-hand market for music to thrive and expand – both of which take a cut out of the music industry’s former revenues.

4. Radical technological innovation has taken place in the field of music creation, processing, mixing, and mastering. Recording hardware, CD burners, music software, and media encoders have evolved to the point where most artists can actually afford decent-quality equipment to do their own recording and producing. Furthermore, this has fostered literally thousands of smaller, specialized studios that are challenging the ‘Big 4? with lower prices, better terms for artists, genre-specific expertise, etc. Successful artists can now leave the big labels and start their own recording outfits on relatively modest budgets. Naturally, super stars like The Beatles or Frank Sinatra have always had this option, but the recent technological advances have lowered the bar drastically. This development is depriving the ‘Big 4? of many of their former cash cows, who now use the major labels for their advertising and distribution infrastructure alone.

5. The World Wide Web has become an omnipresent force in the world, allowing cheap, end-to-end distribution of digital music, increasingly cutting out the corporate music distributors, who deal in trucks and CD covers, rather than bytes and bandwidth. With iTunes leading the way (very successfully ‘competing with free’, I might add), billions of songs are now purchased digitally rather than physically, no longer necessitating the big labels’ distribution networks.

6. The total number of radio stations, music television networks and other ’streaming’ sources of music has grown exponentially, giving music fans a huge selection of free (and legal) music options. Satellite radio, DAB, and internet radio broadcasts have made it trivial for consumers to simply tune into a channel broadcasting the exact sub-genre of music that they feel like listening to (they can even have a stream created for them dynamically, e.g. on Pandora), making the *purchase* of music entirely optional for the casual listener.

7. A massive selection of entertainment alternatives (home computing, console gaming, mobile devices, etc.) have appeared in the home, effectively marginalizing music as an activity. 15-20 years ago, youths would regularly visit each other just to listen to music together; today, that is virtually unthinkable without some form of activity involved, such as playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band, or dancing at a concert.

8. And finally, the music industry itself has embraced the opportunities of digital media, at last letting consumers buy *single* tracks at a time rather than forcing entire albums full of ‘fillers’ on them. Looking at the RIAA’s own sales figures for the past 10 years, there is a *direct* correlation between the break-off in album sales and the introduction and increase in single track digital sales. Looking at the actual numbers, it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of consumers never wanted to buy full albums in the first place, but were merely forced to by the lack of affordable single-track media. Now that the digital revolution has arrived, countless millions of 16-track album sales are being turned into 1- or 2-track sales, *decimating* the former revenues on music. THIS is the real reason why the music industry is hurting.

In other words: The “it’s common sense” argument that the music industry is peddling in their attempt to tie the declining revenues to piracy, simply doesn’t hold. It is not as clear-cut as the industry believes; the true reason for the decline is something they are still unwilling to face, but will have to face sooner or later:

The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated for decades because of limited consumer options. The last 15 years of innovation have lifted those limitations, effectively leaving the music industry with an obsolete, defective business model of monopolized production technology, forced album bundling, and almost nonexistent competition in the realm of home entertainment. What is happening now – the decline of music profits and the piracy witch hunt by the music industry – is merely the panicked struggle of a dying business model, a complacent industry’s refusal to accept its diminishing role in a digital world. The pirates are not the reason, and the decline is the not the disease. It is the cure.

This is a guest post by Jens Roland. Jens is a computer scientist by training, but a technology forecaster by trade. He has worked at international think tanks as a consultant and researcher in emerging technologies and has written more than 300 articles and a book on the subject.

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DATA: Net value of shipped music, in billion dollars

1991 7.83

1992 9.02

1993 10.0

1994 12.1

1995 12.3

1996 12.5

1997 12.2

1998 13.7

1999 14.6

2000 14.3

2001 13.7

2002 12.6

2003 11.9

2004 12.3

2005 12.3

2006 11.8

2007 10.4

(source: www.ayubs.weebly.com annual reports)

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This famous quote from Shakespeare shows us that people have long been pre-occupied with music. It is an integral part of life from the womb to the grave. The fact that it goes so deep within a soul is shown by the fact that it is not only humans but also animals that enjoy music. Different types of music can provoke different reactions in humans and animals and is further proof that there is something about it that can reach far deeper than we can understand. Even whale speak is sold to humans as music for soothing and relaxing.

It will come as no surprise then that the music download business is one of the fastest growing in the technology arena. Some people complain about everyone wearing earphones these days, particularly the younger generation, yet there is barely a person on earth who does not have some sort of favourite music they like to listen to and I’m quite sure if everyone had access to an mp3 player, that there would be some point in every week, if not every day, where they chose to listen to their favourite music downloads.

Babies in the womb are capable of hearing music played through the abdomen and any pregnant woman will tell you that heavy rock music will make her baby lively and soft, gentle music will calm it. Music that the mother personally hears also has a bearing on her unborn baby as it will affect the mother’s moods and this, in turn, affects the baby’s mood.

Throughout life, people will develop a taste for music. Some types will stay forever and others will change throughout our lives. This often depends on what is going on in our lives at the time and we associate different songs with different events, times, ages and emotions. Immediately we hear those tunes again we will be transported in our minds eye back to whatever was going on at the time and we will also relive the same feelings. These may fade slightly over time but they will still be there.

My daughter and I are great music fans and some music is simply our favourite because it’s just a great, catchy, tune but listening back to these we can still remember where we were when we heard them, where we lived and what was going on in our lives at the time.

Given that personal music players hold so much music these days, there is room for sentimental stuff as well as upbeat music, old and new, and you will often see people frantically clicking through their players to find something that conjures up the right mood.

As well as music being such a huge reminder of events and people and feelings we can also use it to deliberately alter a mood. For those who want to create a romantic atmosphere then some mellow love songs will go a lot further than some heavy metal rock tunes.

Favourite music is often played to those in comas because it is understood that even though unconscious, memories can still be stirred. The patient may look asleep but their brain needs the extra stimulation of forgotten thoughts, feelings, memories and even smells that can all be invoked by music. This has often been enough to wake a person from their unconscious state and the sooner they awake, the less severe the damage is likely to be.

So we can see that music is a very powerful force, it can cause new feelings, revisit old feelings, awaken people, send them to sleep and even stir them to great actions. The power of music should never be underestimated.