The key points of this article (published on Thursday 29th March 2007, 'The Guardian') are:
- The Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced the launch of Lifehouse Method.
- This is music creation software.
- Enables the user to input certain data in order to turn it into music.
- Townshend states that "widely shared software tends to evolve through its use (or abuse) by the end user" and uses Google as an example.
- Townshend also says "I like the idea of gathering data in new ways, of merging compositions with one another, but all guided by the Method community."
- Technology evolution is based on consumerism and how people work with the technology offered.
- Peter Gabriel is taking further steps into software with his involvement in The Filter, an intelligent playlist generator for the 'shuffle generation.'
- It a free download that works with Apple's iTunes and Nokia mobile phones and claims to get us to hear more of the often neglected music files that are in our ever-expanding digital archives.
- Nine Inch Nails musician Trent Reznor has released tracks from his forthcoming album in files in which audiences can edit and remix how they choose.
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