Comments on: Benedict Drew – A Folding Table

By: Richard Pinnell

Richard Pinnell — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:44:14 +0000

The above post is obviously spam… I would normally remove it, but reading it this evening in relation to this post made me laugh for ages, and I suspect than Benedict will be equally amused.

By: ron

ron — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:15:57 +0000

I'm a fan of folding tables.The best and the most useful aspect of such furniture is that they are extremely flexible. You can fold them up and carry from one place to another. They are so light weight that even your kids can carry them easily. My modest site is related to this

By: Richard Pinnell

Richard Pinnell — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:57:58 +0000

Yeah things are definitely changing fast Luka. I firmly believe that within five years the CD will have become as much of a niche item as vinyl is today.

Personally my recent interest in downloads has occurred only when I found a way to deal with the logistics of the whole situation. In other words, downloading a way to convert FLAC files, then rigorously converting and then burning any audio I really want to hear onto a CDr. If I don’t do this, I just forget about files far too quickly and never hear them as I just don’t play music via my computer speakers. I now have discs of anything I really like (which I know is an irony in itself!) and also a hard back up of anything should my drive ever go down.

The interesting thing for me in all of this is the survival of the “label” into the download age, with the names you mention above leading the way. Given that server space is pretty cheap these days and will only get cheaper, and modern blog software provides a quick and easy way for a musician to set up an online presence I am not sure why net labels are really needed, though I am glad they exist.

By: lukaz

lukaz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:19:35 +0000

It is interesting how things can change in a short span of time. When i started a label, a cd-r as a format was still to some degre ‘a non valid’ media for presenting music (some magazines for instance had a policy not to review them, some distros not to distribute them and some musicians not to release anything on them) and in couple of years later in a lot of cases cd-r is a medium of choice to a lot of artist treated the same as normal cd. I guess following yr writing on recent net releases and general interest that followed Ben’s release things may change also for net labels and net releases (labels that come to mind: Homophoni, Con-V, Desetxea, Stasisfield, Compost & Height, etc …) … there are some really good stuff there and it was a shame that it didn’t spark any interest also in a wider sense (like reviews, etc …)

By: Richard Pinnell

Richard Pinnell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:03:37 +0000

Turns out my suspicion that the music was made up of sounds taken from a folding table were unfounded and the samples come from all over. The title refers to the way such a table can be folded in on itself, as does the music in places, and also links to the fact Ben uses a table to play, and in his role as a festival organiser spent more time seeking out tables than he did musicians!