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While digitization of music, particularly streaming services, has gained increasing popularity, it has also led to a steady decline in the revenues of recorded music industry. This is causing strong concern regarding a potential collapse of the music industry comparable to other print media industries such as newspaper and book publishing. However, recent changes in the music industry initiated by a resurgence of the live music industry are giving rise to some expectations for the survival and growth of the music industry. The parallel paths of increasing popularity of streaming services and a resurgence of live music suggest that these two dynamics are working together in a co-evolutionary way toward the sustainability of the music industry. This paper attempts to elucidate the co-evolutionary dynamism between the increasing popularity of streaming music and the resurgence of live music. An empirical analysis of monthly trends over the period of the last three decades in the US music industry by its sectors revealed that (i) the co-evolution between streaming and live music industries has functioned well over the last few years, (ii) the live music industry has incorporated a self-propagating function by assimilating innovations previously initiated by digital music, (iii) given the above co-evolution, the recent resurging trend in the music industry can be sustained, (iv) the advancement of digital innovations such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, fintech, virtual reality, big data, and social media by enabling such coevolution have transformed the live music industry into a “live-concert-streaming music industry” ( LCSMI ) that further enabling the participative creativity of its stakeholders. For these collaborative and cultural industries to function in harmony, trust between its participating stakeholders is very crucial. This analysis suggests the significance of a trust-based ICT-driven disruptive business model (IDBM) with a consolidated challenge for social demand (CCSD) for the development of cultural industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores how on-demand interactive streaming services are able to navigate the digital music rights licensing landscape in the U.S. The difference between these services and other types of streaming services, the history of the law on streaming technology, and the specific rights for these services is discussed. It also provides an example demonstrating how these services may secure the licenses to stream a song without infringing the copyright.

Assessment of the neural correlates of auditory scene analysis, using an index of sound change detection that does not require the listener to attend to the sounds [a component of event-related brain potentials called the mismatch negativity (MMN)], has previously demonstrated that segregation processes can occur without attention focused on the sounds and that within-stream contextual factors influence how sound elements are integrated and represented in auditory memory. The current study investigated the relationship between the segregation and integration processes when they were called upon to function together. The pattern of MMN results showed that the integration of sound elements within a sound stream occurred after the segregation of sounds into independent streams and, further, that the individual streams were subject to contextual effects. These results are consistent with a view of auditory processing that suggests that the auditory scene is rapidly organized into distinct streams and the integration of sequential elements to perceptual units takes place on the already formed streams. This would allow for the flexibility required to identify changing within-stream sound patterns, needed to appreciate music or comprehend speech. 2005 Acoustical Society of America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the perceptual mapping from acoustic signal to prelexical phonetic representations in the United States. Characterization on the early stages of speech perception; Influence of contextual factors on internal category structure; Significance of internal category structure in speeded phonetic categorization.

The article looks at the sound installations at the sLowlife, an exhibit on plant biology at the U.S. Botanic Garden. A sonic environment was provided that helped visitors ease into a contemplative frame of mind including soft and slow moving sound coming across as an auditory analog of the slow changes in the lives of plants. Stereo streams were provided in such a way that visitors experience a variable mix between the streams.