A Chat With The King of Music: An Interview With Daniel Ek

There is an overload of music. 60,000 songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. Over 20% of those don’t get streamed even once. The ubiquitous access to almost every piece of recorded music in history has led to a paradox of choice, promoting passive and playlist-driven music consumption and creating winner-take-all effects for the biggest artists.

Björk: Creating ever changing, context-aware music

Here’s where things start to get a little crazy. A less talked about, but boundary-pushing use case is turning a traditional “static” song into a living, breathing work that can respond to environmental context, its audience, and take on the form of an ever-changing performance.

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