10.13
DGM HQ.
Broad accents of the local kind began at 08.41.
The Post Office’s telephone began ringing at 07.55 & received no reply. Well, what were they hoping for? I could have told them that our Landlord doesn’t come in until 08.30. They should have called DGM for this news. The Minx called DGM just afterwards & had me out of the bath, dripping wet & naked in DGM Reception, fortunately before business hours as well.
Broad accents of the local kind began at 08.41.
11.30 Major transitions are underway.
On the GC site, today the journalising ceases to exist. Where might the journals go to live? Well, they may or not, at the initiative of the journalisers. The Seattle location of TTA, that location-based project, is moving to… somewhere other than it currently resides. Our current facilities are not ideal for DGM functionality. So, where & when do we go? I have a sense of what is required for the next period of GC: how to achieve this? The proposed GC Institute & House & The LCG are all part of the overall transition.
Here at DGM, David & Robert have held our major review-meeting in the kitchen, the conventional site of all our important & far-reaching discussions, to declare our aims & future-aspirings, and dialogue envisaged strategies for addressing the forms & functionalities needed to build the bridge between where we are & where we are going.
DGM is now a media company, we acknolwedged. We have transited from being a record company, to a music company, to a media company. In the current climate, music is mostly free.
A conventional major source of income for the professional musician, royalties from records, has significantly diminished & will continue to do so. CDs & DVDs are given away in national papers. Business plans for music providers of the business kind (eg Last FM) place no primacy on providing an income stream for music creators & generators. The disparities & inequalities of income between power-possessors & the rest of us are growing rapidly (and in the UK, this is clearly demonstrated by young adults being unable to afford housing in their locales). How to approach all of this?
The transition time-frame is 1-3 years, if we are to be in place for the next period.
En passant, I also saw how KC can happen.
12.24 An inbox of 319.
15.11 How to serve perfection in an imperfect world?
19.40 Interesting arisings, but this evening’s task is to diminish an inbox of 258.
22.56 The professional says: this is definite.
The artist says: this is possible.
00.54 Down to 15. Dribble.
The floor…
"Moving forward feels like moving forward.
It also feels like moving backwards, and standing still."
