By Clare Roche
Despite travel bans, festival cancellations and the prohibition of live performances, finally, quarantine is producing some good news for the music industry.
While traditional touring remains out of the picture, artists and bands have found the creative silver lining in isolation.
Normal recording and producing has stopped, however, many musicians have turned to home recording technology, making music and music videos from home.
This new process has transformed not only how artists communicate with fans, but also sped up the release of material.
Utilising digital outlets such as online streaming platforms like soundcloud and spotify, allows any artist to create and release on the spot, while simultaneously bringing their visibility to the next level.
New Music:
Even though the live music industry has lost millions, musicians have been adapting like everyone else.
Fortnite famously hosted a live Travis Scott rap concert that attracted nearly 30 million live viewers.
Many are making the best of a bad situation, using their financial loss and capitalising on their own personal feelings of hope and vulnerability by making corona themed albums.
Back in May, American rock band – Nine Inch Nails, surprised fans by releasing two brand new albums online, to help them feel “a little less alone” as the world battles the coronavirus crisis.
English singer/songwriter – Yungblood, recently played a remote livestreamed concert for his fans, while bands such as Trivium, shortly followed suit, uploading over 90 of their live shows to Twitter.
Glass Animals singer – Dave Bayley, shows fans the behind the scenes process of their new album Dreamland, made entirely durring quarantine.
- The music industry has lost $200 million dollars due to coronavirus so far
- The crisis is quickly accelerating streaming trends: grown from 9% to 47% in just six years
- On-demand music video streams have increased
What it means for fans:
Bathurst local and music enthusiast, Dav Francis says isolation is breeding creativity:
“Being stuck at home is hard for everyone including our favourite musicians… I’m glad they are channeling their bordeom into something that cures ours.”
Dav FRancis
Dav points out that music is intrinsically connected to mental health:
“For me personally, music is the only thing keeping me sane and the fact that we are getting possibly MORE new music than normal is such a positive.”
“Music is good for our mental wellbeing – its emotional and soothing and we need it more than ever… [musicians] They are delivering and looking out for us.”
Dav Francis
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