Album, to 8-track, to Cassette, to CD — How the Collapse of CD Sales Crashed the Music Industry (w/ Jim Barber) Rick Beato
How the Collapse of CD Sales Crashed the Music Industry
How the Collapse of CD Sales Crashed the Music Industry
Music evolves as composers, performers, and consumers favor some musical variants over others. To investigate the role of consumer selection, we constructed a Darwinian music engine consisting of a population of short audio loops that sexually reproduce and mutate. This population evolved for 2,513 generations under the selective influence of 6,931 consumers who rated the … Read more