Electronic Music

I just read the article in the New York Times by Clive Thompson and I am wondering if this type of distribution and marketing works for classical and new age music. First of all, I don't tour. It's not that I don't want to. It's just that I don't see the point. Its not like I am going to be singing songs or anything like that. Most of the music I write is for solitary listening. I can't even imagine a group of people listening to it all at one time.

But it's an interesting dilemma, you know; this idea of marketing music for the consumption of the anonymous listener, if that is indeed, what I am writing for. It turns out though, that it is not what I am writing for. I write for the privilege of being inspired. I write for no other reason. I often do not even have an audience in mind at the time the composition is being formed.

So will I make money at this? Probably not. Will I become famous? Again, no I do not think so. I will, however, have the satisfaction of adding to the body of academic and, to some extent, popular music. It has to be enough.