Sunday, August 21, 2011

You are what you collect

With .�.�.�I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces, Steven Roden finds meaning and solace in old records and older photos by Bill Meyer You probably know someone who's accumulated, as poet and Ubuweb founder Kenneth Goldsmith admitted in the Wire's May issue, more music on his hard drives than he'll listen to in ten lifetimes. Chances are that even if you don't spend your nights like Goldsmith, downloading still more albums that you'll never hear, your digital music collection has gotten out of hand: according to recent data published by the makers of the Music WithMe app, its users' average iTunes library has 5,409 songs, of which only 1,214 ever get played.?

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/dust-to-digital-steven-roden/Content?oid=4456763

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