The possibility of listening to music online presents many advantages, but also some problems: the enormous volume of available content risks disorienting the listener, who often needs guidance on what to choose and how to distinguish quality proposals suitable to their tastes. For this reason, the figure of the "artistic director" is emerging even within music streaming platforms. Alessio Bertallot, for example, is the artistic director of TIMmusic. Known as a DJ and radio host, Bertallot states: after the bulimia of "I can have anything," we are moving toward the idea of "I know I have everything at my disposal, at any time, but now I need someone to show me the way, to select content for me, to allow me to press play and listen to something I like."
The full article, published in La Stampa last July 24th, is visible here:
Here is my opinion: the choice of the most suitable material to propose is in the hands of people who may not be sensitive enough to know how to, precisely, choose (everyone has their own story and has had their own experiences), so I have doubts given the trend of radio stations and more.
In music, as in photography (I am only using this example, but it is obvious), the level (excuse the pun) between professional and amateur (not even a dilettante) has leveled out, so much so that some amateurs (thanks to high-level cameras along with lenses of extremely high quality, with image stabilization, very fast autofocus, dozens of focus points and predictive AF, and I won't go on) achieve absurd results, so there it is not the person who makes the difference, except in truly creative photography.
Of course, in music it is slightly different; what you are always comes out, regardless of the means used, which brings us back to the photographic field where a very cool phrase (implied but euphorically pronounced after countless debates on how and why) is "the important thing is to know what you are doing and achieve the result", as if to say the end justifies the means, eh yes?
