Scott Hansen, ISO50 and Tycho

The Definition of 'Talent'

Sometimes you have to just sit back and appreciate the breadth of someone’s talent. Scott Hansen is one of these people. Splitting time between ISO50 – his visual work, and Tycho – his electronic/ambient music project, he is in the business of creating, and is rather good at it.

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And now for your listening and viewing pleasure:

Dictaphones Lament
Red Bridge
A Circular Reeducation



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Unrelated Musical Editorial:
So I recently read an interesting article. A study just found that people who download music illegally, aka pirates, are 10x more likely to buy music than those who don’t (read it here).

And in all honesty this doesn’t surprise me. What I do wonder about though, is what will the music industry’s response be? Essentially they just found out that the people that steal from them are actually their best customers. That’s like bank robbers who rob a bank, and then deposit said stolen money into the very same bank.

And on the whole, music sales are down, so what then? Does the bank run advertising imploring robbers to rob them? Is this analogy even working anymore?

No.

But many questions come to mind:

Does this mean that when people download more music, they get into more music, and therefore end up buying more music? Or is this simply an extremely accurate way to tell between those who are very into music and those who aren’t?

Do record labels offer more free downloads or relax their special interest politicking and prosecuting?

Will this be all the evidence record labels need to convince their artists to follow in the footsteps of Radiohead and NIN? Are their approaches even similar to this?

Does this mean that the stupid fucking drummer from Metallica will finally shut up?

I think there are answers to all these questions, and it’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Thoughts?