The Influence of Characters on Commercial Success in the Music Industry

By Dries Heerkens Watch in pdf 1: Introduction For over a decade now, innovations in the realm of digital media technologies have been commonly perceived as threatening the medium/long-term viability of the music industry. Digital ﬁle-sharing, duplication and storage technologies are widely regarded as producing a ‘‘crisis’’ for an industry that had grown exponentially on… Read More The Influence of Characters on Commercial Success in the Music Industry

April 16, 2014April 29, 2014 driesheerkens2 Comments

Wu-Tang Clan choses to fight the media

By Dries Heerkens Whilst the initial disruptiveeffects of the radical new digital technologies may have induced a certain ‘‘crisis’’ for the prevailing models and practices of the recorded music industry, these digital technologies have also prompted and been accompanied by new opportunities for restructuring and reshaping of the scope and operations of the music industry. (Preston and Rodgers,… Read More Wu-Tang Clan choses to fight the media

March 28, 2014March 29, 2014 driesheerkensLeave a comment

Linkin Park make music video fully interactive

By Dries Heerkens The rock band ‘Linkin Park’ will launch a fully interactive music video for their new single; Guilty all the same. The development of the video is realised in cooperation with Project Spark – developed by Team Dakota and published by Microsoft studios. Players of Project Spark are able to listen to the single in… Read More Linkin Park make music video fully interactive

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Mistaken for Strangers by The National

By Dries Heerkens The 28nd of March the documentary ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ will be available for the public. The documentary is about the American band ‘The National’ and had its premiere almost one year ago at the Tribeca film festival, since then the documentary travelled only in cinemas. The documentary is directed by Tom Berninger… Read More Mistaken for Strangers by The National

March 19, 2014June 12, 2015 driesheerkensLeave a comment

Transmedia in which music is the biggest component

Transmedia-in-which-music-is-the-biggest-compenent.pdf by Dries Heerkens Introduction Transmedia Storytelling can be described as “telling a story across multiple media. each medium does what it does best — so that a story might be introduced in a film, expanded through television, novels, and comics, and its world might be explored and experienced through game play. Each franchise entry… Read More Transmedia in which music is the biggest component

January 8, 2014April 9, 2014 driesheerkens3 Comments

How Arcade Fire Created A Buzz By Using Immediacy, Hypermediacy and Remediation

By Dries Heerkens Media is getting more interactive and customized on the wishes of the users, this is the result of media service providers having more data about their users. Some recognizable examples of media making use the data to be interactive and deliver customized services are ‘Spotify’, which recommends new music to their users… Read More How Arcade Fire Created A Buzz By Using Immediacy, Hypermediacy and Remediation

September 28, 2013February 11, 2014 driesheerkens2 Comments

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Music finds media

An inside in why and how media is innovatively used in the music industry today

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