Blogging live from the SanFran Music Tech Summit: Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind Keynote address.
"I
want to have all the new kinds of technologies and methods of
distribution together. If one of you wants to develop this site, I'd
like to visit this site and endorse this site. I want to talk about people getting together to talk about marketing and distributing music."
"What will be noteworthy today will no longer be next week.
"We're in the wild west of innovation and I love it.
"I don't have a key note I have to give because no one has the key and the notes are going to change.
"These are the good old days; the exciting times in music.
"We're either in trouble or it's really great.
"Music. I want to talk about music and about reaching people with music.
"I'm imagining how I want things to be. How it would be great to engage music and other people with music and I'm looking for ways to make that happen instead of speaking about 5 distributors we need to get on their shelves and limited number of record labels. I want you here to imagine how your music works for you and how you'd want it to reach other people. Imagine that and it will be so.
"You are your own record company. Your own distributor. I see the connection between media and music as the identity generation device. Whatever this is, this is the edge I want to cut with. It's a place where we find ourselves.
"It's the small things that you make--the small steps that you make--it is sitting on your bed with your guitar, hitting one note, that is the thing that's reaching the world. A very small previous thing that can now be garnered and protected by you. Only you.
"Keep focusing on, musically, the things that matter to you. The urge to make music. Pay attention to that. Protect that. And then you'll find the way to get it out there.
Oh and: "Good converters are good enough."
"We're going to have a jam night where we use technology to jam with the fans real time. We're doing this on this record.
"I love looking at albums and the actual vinyl--but it isn't something that has to exist. It's not a given. For me making albums is very difficult. I don't like albums with fillers. Pretty much everything on my albums is something that I mean and it could take a really long time to mean it.
It's exciting to think about creating singles first, working on them for a few days, then uploading them--then going to the next song. You like it you can buy it. Hopefully that buck goes to the musician. I don't believe we're constantly going to leave in a state of total piracy. That's not the case. We're going to put up 3 songs November 18th and that's going to be available for download. "Ursa Major."
We're going to use the internet to find where's everyone at. We're going to gather around music physicaly.
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