Music Biz Stats
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Our friends over at Hidden Shoal Recordings had a gig in December ‘08 for which Uriah and I designed this flash animation of music biz statistics (from stats gathered by Uriah and Dr Malcom Riddoch). We looked at various music technologies and how each has been superceded. We tried to show that the markets have arrived at favouring digital downloads (at least for the present): Hidden Shoal’s main method of distribution. At the gig, this animation was projected directly on to a matt black wall in an almost completely black room. Amazingly this experiment paid off. The effect is much as you see here: bright white lines on a black ground, but with the added advantage of a borderless background for the graphics to float upon. Anyway, we think we have something that’s aesthetically engaging, but what about consistency? Are these hard to decipher? Your thoughts would be appreciated.