should music be a product? should it be free? The distinction will be radically blurred as music becomes increasingly customizable and responsive to specific environments. The musician will become a designer, creating the source code for a family of infinitely variable, yet related music. The choice will become whether or not (or to what degree) to release the code.
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how do you define the "original" code so that it is recognizable as a unique entity created by the musician?
by code i mean, literally, software code, or genetic code, if you will. musical code would be an algorithm for generating a family of music, in response to certain specific inputs or cues. this algorithm would, to a varying degree, maintain the authorship of the musician.
then again, the notion that a guy punching away at a computer could entirely replace someone strumming a guitar seems unlikely and downright undesirable. this is only useful when kept in metaphorical terms, but then, is it useful at all?
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