This is basically what most users do with Spotify. You don’t want to be stopped with the more important thing you are doing. “You don’t care so much any more what it is you are listening to. “Spotify, Apple – the interfaces, and the resulting experience they provide – encourage a way of listening that is only half-ass,” he says. There will always be somebody else doing content creation
The old school artists, like me, the content creators, are really replaceable.
He believes, too, that Spotify has turned music into aural wallpaper that serves largely to distract while you are doing the housework, mowing the lawn etc. Yet he is under no illusion but that he is merely a cog in a very large and lucrative machine. Which is why his forthcoming album of piano pieces, Old Friends New Friends, will be available on Spotify and elsewhere. As a working musician, Frahm of course feels obliged to participate in the streaming economy. He despairs, in particular, of the rise of streaming services. “Artists should be inspired by what is going on in society,” he says. And he feels his peers should be wary of clambering on bandwagons – especially where money is involved. Musically and philosophically, the acclaimed contemporary composer doesn’t believe in following the crowd. Wearing a Healy-Rae style flat cap and a sombre expression Nils Frahm cuts a distinctive figure as he logs in from his holiday retreat in rural Spain.
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