Articles by Jay Havaldar
07/29/15 10:51pm
Jay Havaldar | The death of the author
It's difficult to separate art from artist. In our culture, the artist is more than just a person — they are an institution, a myth, a force of nature. We see the artist as a vessel through which the creative force manifests. And so we arrive at ridiculous and irreconcilable paradoxes — how can John Lennon be both a champion of peace and a wife-beater? 07/15/15 10:36pm
Jay Havaldar | There's no such thing as a free lunch
It seems that the only successful way to profit off this new paradigm is the “freemium” model, in which you have the option to pay for quality. It’s a natural solution which allows customers to pay what they want. But for this model to be successful and to change what the value of music is, we need to have a discussion about what the value of music should be. 06/15/15 4:13pm