Information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast so you can get it wherever you can get your podcast you can also find us and. Science. The internet has revolutionized the way becomes you music sign up to a streaming service and you can listen to all your favorite tunes or go wherever you are many have even begun playing shows in Computer Games or staging virtual concerts how is all this changing the Music Industry today on shipped. Almost 300000000. 00 people stream music by a spotify each month that gives the Market Leader a detailed picture of uses listening habits today music lovers can also enjoy streaming music videos and concerts in their homes and on their mobile devices and these services are rapidly growing in popularity. Computer Game Developers are giving a platform to august as well and spring us rep of travis got to showcase the brand new trek live in fort worth not a hugely popular multiplayer game. As the big moment given recent hip hop fans have been waiting for every gun she would virtual travel scott says its a multiplayer game for her to perform live in for the more than 12000000 players the largest crowds ever to attend a virtual concert like this. The gaming and Music Industry. Across over the tracks to try to get groups in one many games now feature cool soundtracks unique dance moves and virtual in game concerts because china im sure someone with. Streaming platforms like apple music these and spotify dominate the music market today raking in huge sums of money and only a tiny fraction of that goes to the artist on some platforms they earn less than 1. 00 cent per stream to make a decent living they need hundreds of thousands of plays for example an artist would be 80000. 00 plays on the napster streaming platform just to the u. S. National minimum wage roughly 1400. 00 u. S. 1. 20 players would be needed on apple music and over 300001 spotify and amazon. Can use issues make a living like that its tough but its not all black and white you know we met up with german bad who say despite the downsides there are benefits to spotify. And ethnic have been with folk pop. For 11 years their albums feature german english and arabic lyrics and have made it into german charts at 1st they didnt want them his accounts part of. 45 spotify definitely exploits musicians and if you have an almost nothing through streams. Its not even enough for major artists to get by. Making an album is a lot of work and costs a lot to record. At 1st we didnt really like the idea of making your music available for free and people like to. Have played all over europe winning them and loyal fan base today their music is on spotify after all with success their latest single happy from the new album has already been streamed half a 1000000 times about 250000 fans listen to their tunes each month to ask what users can discover your music on spotify even if you dont belong to a record label. And if your music gets streamed a lot and recommended to other people then you might feature a playlist thats what sway their opinions on them and look at. Their current music is available on other streaming platforms too but 90 percent of their listeners come from spotify since signing up in 2015 hours music has been streamed about 25000000. 00 times in 78. 00 Different Countries streaming platform. Meanwhile also changing the way artists create music. Of the us an overwhelming choice of music now if you get bored of the song you skip it i guess that the scourges artists from producing elaborate 10 minute tracks with 3 minutes solos and long intros so yes on the people are adapting to that. On average songs have become shorter over the years in 2000 the u. S. Top 100 singles tended to be over 4 minutes long but in 2018 the average length for just 3 and a half minutes why in part because of the 32nd rule applied by spotify and other streaming platforms it means artists only receive money if their song has been streamed half a minute or more this is changing how artists craft songs long gone are the days when songs are long winded intros for example for more on that heres crisp of a bunch of girl in school popular. Hard to get on my over one hits today follow with different formula from take just to biebers love yourself the song jobs right in with lyrics from the get go. Visit jarvis and the listener knows exactly what the tracks about. The same time for an intro. The 1st few bars of a song are crucial they determine whether the listener sticks with it also gets to the next the vast competition for music has given many listeners a short Attention Span and so the 1st 30 seconds. I need just 20 seconds to never listen to the whole song now. That. The Music Industry started making money from streaming services in 2510 years later screaming about phones were already making 2600000000 euros in revenue and since 2018 streaming has become the biggest source of income for the Music Industry last year it made up 56 percent of global music revenue thats why artists are under pressure to make their music Available Online play lists are also a crucial part of these major streaming platforms if an artist is featured on one it can seriously boost their streaming figures and revenue but who curator these playlist. Popular mean. Sick on spotify is promoted on playlists which drives up streaming figures even further. Algorithms define who makes it as an artist today. So if they lists only contain popular songs this is based on certain metrics. A song will move up a playlist the more it can stream. But there are other play lists with a structure is more important songs are added in a way that achieves the rights musical art. Companies have begun to help artists get their songs on to play lists to market them like replace the network now owned by sound cloud musicians are now less dependent on music labels but even more so uncensored algorithms. This is something that pop professor marcus klein i criticize this. Quite sort of fortunately these days producing music is less about creating and more about calculation because algorithms calculate how many people like what and when they listen to. The it will Music Production is becoming much more of those numbers and less about cultivating a future for society because there. d is pop music no longer a revolutionary force well despite the criticism digitalisation is providing new scope for creativity like a video sharing app ticked off some artists even have a global hit song because of take thought if their song features on one of the popular ticktock challenger like then thats x. All told. With the good up of viral sensations. Streaming services and social media platforms represent a great new way for fans and musicians to connect especially now during times of social distancing. We have a spring tour plugged up with 26. 00 or 27. 00 concerts and on the thought of even thought of it like all bands the tour was cancelled because its a shame because we just finished recording our latest album of it at the market and we were looking forward to going on tour with it. Instead to go after her as a band member who staged a concert on a rooftop in cologne live streamed it for all their fans 2 and fortunately there to burn them bandmates couldnt join them because of the knock down. The throat most important that fans get to see bands in a live context even if its online. But i believe in can you see its all over social media right now. Streaming is a great way for artists to stay present during lockdown james blunt recently stream to show from hundreds elbert philharmonic hole. And artists like billy eilish the Rolling Stones and green days but it Joe Armstrong live stream performances from their own homes for the one who will together at home Charity Event to on a Health Care Work his. In addition to their Live Streaming. Published a music video made from 60 fan videos filmed at home and the clip has around 50000 hits on you tube. I dont want to feel. The i think a military only way to stay in touch with fans these days because by Live Streaming concert life. After thinking for the past gigs Available Online you know come. To will now take place in autumn this year provided not tell me. If not theyll just keep performing on line. Ok so digital platforms are great for musicians to connect with fans and for fans to stream as much music as they want whenever they want but theres a catch companies are collecting vast quantities of personal data professor nick cauldron of the London School of economics explains more. The way we sat or jumped in front of our record player was unknown to the Record Companies they were blind to that now theyre not the vision of markets is today is a relation which is continuous as long as you are using the product the product will be tracking new. Companies constantly analyze our music listening behavior to keep us on platforms for as long as possible platforms like french streaming sites. Many users get to play they should in theory only hear music that they want to hear for those we need to establish an ongoing relationship with of we have to learn what music they enjoy in a monday morning for example but not on a friday evening. Some artists have launched exclusive Online Events like us soul singer erykah badu one of my favorite artists who created an interactive Concert Series the idea is that fans pay a fee to watch and then have a say what happens like which song will be played next streaming has made it extremely easy for us to consume music but also harder for artists to make a living so its on us to support musicians we care about for example by seeing their shots online or one day in real life. What do you think those know on you tube facebook and d w dot com thats it from last this rick seno sort. Of deals are not amounting to the origins of garbage everywhere. Sinopoli says enough already the environmental activist and her fellow campaigners are traveling around the country teleco educating and advising the player and cleaning up they are fighting back to the type of trash. On d. W. September 19th 93. 00 israelis and palestinians signed the oslo accords. In the middle east seemed possible. New videos and private documents to tell the story of the tough negotiations behind the scenes in florida after the agreements reached and the bitter collapse of the occurrence of the b. Oslo diaries. In 45 minutes on d w. Im not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but most are laughing with the cup but i dont think deep into the german culture of. New dancing to keep this drama down to you because its all down to who i am no time rachel join me to meet the captives on the gulf coast. Bushy island is burning and has been for 30 years originally a small a good in the waste crisis on the mounties became so pressing but the government repurposed it as a landfill now the island keeps growing with reclaimed land made of rubbish discarded junk and mounds of plastic the trash island contradicts the maldives image stunning beaches pristine water a dream holiday destination. Shaheen a is a well known environmental activist on the maldives. Shes fighting the garbage problem sees a side of the struggle at the sea i think we need to also load up and i embrace dont believe that. In the very day i did not be able to save the will of the that i feel a little lonely so let alone look out there to save it but im not there at least. With hope. Shaheen and her colleagues working for parlay for the oceans a globally active and geo. Adi the women are heading north. That is the moment leaves consists of over 1000 small islands of which 200 are inhabited travel and transport are not easy here ya dylan and i gave big bang the elemental ground and let me get the word from them get married they cant be there for nothin else theyre looking. To make good. And then there is the fear that will. Someday be gone the way they are not going to war. Because of. This. They ever read. The name. On common do island the headmaster greets them he introduces himself as. People on the mall the prefer being on a 1st name basis. Shaheen is here to help residents on the island learn to manage their waste the empty plastic activist receives a warm welcome and bouquets of plastic flowers. Theres much to do. The 1st stop is the school. The maldives is an islamic country but girls and boys go to School Together she begins her presentation its a new topic for the children oh. Not for a lot. Of you all that you have in your head. Want to quantify what will they get closer. So. That was. It when you heard it right. You know he he just what or is it oh so dont live up to all this you know im not worth the beaches. Over the. Last stills of each i need to and not both suing to the see we have then so many things like these children call my no no did it his dog age now the soviets are going into the sea just so we see you. Shana teaches across the maltese the organization partly believes that the way towards progress is through children and hard to reach villages. Dont only do it for the kids we do this for the kids and well certainly keep the films for the kids toys and peace in the excitement if they tell the parents heres a surfing and leave room for the hills painters at this point because theres a loss to the fairly small because we dont they just get the kids set up the whole game to see if the answer is everyone knows each other here. Come on do is a small island is smile and the other residents learned what that really means in 2004 when it tsunami hit. The 2nd it was bigger than the full school. Somehow which is nice and say. How would. I live thats what they did. Except to feature it is a sport so. Hows that for individual posting which is not if it to. 360 metres long in 240 metres wide people have been living here for hundreds of years. There are over 1000 residents on the island. Without a wall come on do what have been swallowed by the ocean years ago. Its just one metre above sea level and the ocean is rising. Cmon do is important the men often spend weeks at sea fishing for tuna while the women typically work at home. Grew up here studied in india worked in mali and came back a few years ago. When the school days over he goes fishing with his 2 year old son we dont have. Kids from the sea really friendly. Schools of study right. None of them want to. Go to one of them. So we dont have any issues really. But there are ecological issues notably the garbage problem. The islanders dump all their trash into the sea and the waste train also ends up in the water a smile says this is the way its always been done but he doesnt seem too comfortable with that. But dumped plastic doesnt simply disappear it stays intact and in the best case loads back to shore. The fish arent biting today if you do catch one you can see what else happens with the plastic wrap use we dont have any fleece or any that we can treaty so people throw plastic. So the sea from the. Fish is. Eaten and we see them. We see them into the fishes so its very often see so its a very big program for us not. Going to the next morning she and her team head off to a neighboring island. To students will follow later. No one lives here. I mean you. Want to do a clean up. And explain to the children that when you throw it it doesnt go away if the vocals have a calf or plastic bags it floats back or it gets eaten by an animal but then so that they can link to the foreground to do that i think and we take them smoking because we want them to understand also what illegally i think is coming from from our different angle than telling them that we are losing so much of biodiversity is a better way of making them understand. Its a big day for the students. The island is just a few 100 metres away but few have been here before. From further away. And the 1st real start with the clean up you know not that theres no solution right now were not going to grandmas explains the different kinds of plastic and which ones are recyclable. Yeah over the board of 40 cornbury not. Guarded its so a remote quarter that were there any wood i meant and. The indian ocean spits out all types of garbage plastic drinking cans and polystyrene foam basically last forever. If it doesnt get washed away by the flood this garbage stays here it doesnt take long before the students understand what parly is trying to explain. The have to take a look at what im going to go on to throw 1st it came to this or boy. Is it that sometimes you have to tell your parents as well not truth when you pull something. After just one hour the bags are full. Only pet bottles are collected you didnt want to get rid of each sack weighs about 40 kilos. Harley organizes a Competition Among the schools to try to give the children a sense of achievement. Yes but it is a drop i mean so many dogs can make a big ocean so. We hope that there are more groups like this happening everywhere so theres more drops dropping here. But a lot is like we are challenges that we can only cycle certain material and we are actually the very set it saddens me to say that. Only the material we can recycle but we can collect the other material as well but what is happening is. That we send it to an island or that until it gets burnt. No money needed because its safe from the ocean its on the beaches its not a nice sight. Hopefully we can clean up the beach of everything that is washed up. The bags are carried away by the mayor and the police come onto. The little boat has to make 3 trips to transport what was gathered in just one hour its a big job. After cleaning up a bit on land its time for a swim. Most of the girls have never used goggles or snorkels before and only a few of them can swim many are frightened but the sea. Explains what the girls will see under the water coral but only a few have their typical vibrant colors left so every war is about an animal yet and that animal is what is building this coral ever at the core of the live coal what idea it has cobbler. A dead girl does not have cholera. Shaheen and a whole take those with the least experienced by the hand. Its an entirely new world to many this is their 1st visit. I mean i think the bleaching has killed everything that is 0 you see you know is the border poles that are life cycle of the branching coral said lord the branching photos you see only those little baby was. The underwater world surrounding the maldives is beautiful beyond compare. But the farther you swim out from shore the more apparent the problems here become. The corals are all white which means theyre dead. This isnt due to pollution but climate change. The complex weather pattern el nino has always brought warm water to the region but its becoming more and more intense with larger masses of warmer water and the coral are dying off. Back in the capital mollett. 200000 people live here more than a 3rd of the maldives population. Is the most densely populated island in the world. Everything needed on the other islands goes through these ports. The most important commodity is Drinking Water. Hardly any ground water exists on the islands so thousands of plastic bottles are brought in every day most end up in the sea. Yellowfin tuna is delivered at the fish market its a specialty in the maldives. Fishmonger hussain follies between 3 and 500 every day. Level to one of the over this here is a good fish. Often well find plastic inside the animals. But usually its bottle caps lofted with the group but if it were not. This is shaheen his office. To parlay is when 2 conflicting parties open dialogue to resolve their differences the multiverse is one of the 1st countries where parly has signed an agreement with the ministry of environment shayna coordinates the collaboration. All of these dogs you see why its there we have an interception. On an island and all that goes in which it dies and there are some results and. So the reality is it almost a 100 im going to tell you that is a good. 1500000. 00 tourists come every year. Almost 90 percent of the countrys tax revenues are made in hotels. But even on the most exclusive beaches each day begins with collecting plastic. Operations manager only for roof of the combo hotel makes his rounds early in the morning to ensure the washed up refuse has been cleared when duty is when the economy of the experts in. Our nation was beauty. I thought he had to focus michel that he would be you know be there those days not that useful brown might just call it safe so we try our best to to do the piece that would be thought. Much of it. In the center of the hotel island there is a new building. Soon Drinking Water for the guests will be bottled here in glass bottles. The water comes from the hotels own seawater desalination plant. This protects the environment and should also reduce costs. For no even look he speaks to bring those from from salt lake forest into big operations you know to move those things to the stuff if he needs any. You know the same old hes gonna stick with it you know what he does he know its a big thing so but no i think he was all these extra walks that. He like most of the on the list. Waste disposal is difficult and expensive. Went garbage is 1st stored at low temperatures so that it doesnt begin to stink this eats up a lot of electricity which on the mountie comes mainly from diesel generators most of the garbage gets sorted. In this hotel alone there are up to 2000 plastic bottles a day. The reason why the cell filled glass bottles havent replaced plastic ones long ago is simple the hotel owners also own the mineral water trade on the maltese now the hotel has entered into a partnership with parlay to recycle one 3rd of its plastic waste. You see the move the labels the move to pick. Up make it more. Like these full body for these people all these things in the jumble bakes that you see the insane you know what the public so some of the just banks you know using you know full poly the shade in again because that will reduce the value of the city to be taking sandy. Parlay for the oceans collects the plastic bottles in a warehouse and molly. The bottles collected by the students have come on to and those from the hotel will be crushed here and then exported to faraway taiwan there theyll be shredded and recycled the process is laborious and expensive its paid for by donations from industry sponsors. So i decided to try to find solutions and i tried to find people to collaborate and. Theyre nastier trying to find partners the most gloating about the future either. Nation 3 month before the government is not the last 15 percent and its the whole aspect to give it worried. It would fall off the white or the and then if you must intercept then read it and also take the next thing and be nice i think you know everything that is not. So far partly has removed 1400 tonnes of plastic from the maldives. But every day 400. 00 more tonnes of rubbish are dumped on the garbage island up to the food. The smoke is clearly visible from far away. Yet for years hardly anyone took note until a new government took over in 2018 since then the authorities have been on a mission to find a sustainable solution to the garbage sea monster shaheen also advises the ministry of environment. So were setting up a list but ive not said to him you know this is so we have got a huge go for it david is funny and i think by 2024 yeah yeah but to say that theyre going to do. And if that works i think we will have a Central Place where we can get a lot of d that miley has one 3rd of the population and older is old with most of it comes to get off the face. These types of plans do not always run smoothly here as can be seen some 200 kilometers away. On the island of bon dieu the world bank built a 10000000. 00 waste incinerator labelled as development aid. The plant was only in use for a few months its currently not operating supposedly due to Maintenance Work the garbage meanwhile is piling up and transport to and from the plant have yet to be properly organized. Shayna and her colleagues meet martin jones the british engineer is a managing director at the world bank is he showing shana where the garbage ships will more in the future. Jones lives on the island and knows shaheen oh well. Sheena is involved in virtually every environmental project in the maldives. But she has her down. About whether such a huge facility is useful for the small islands. No one seems to enter a tourist starts or any itself generates if you just need a school amounts of fuel to get it going once weve got it to the temperature that it may then its just that moment is itself from one state to whats it can fires paquette yeah so the amount of fuel the use a very minimal or a cd i think i would have bought it. In here i want to bang on top of it. But until the burning process is running smoothly martin jones will stay on bon dieu. Just buying the garbage. At least its already been sorted. What the garbage manager worries about the most is polystyrene foam Fresh Produce delivered to hotels mostly comes packaged in this lightweight material to keep them cool the plastic bottles are recycled by parly the private Environmental Organization gets them from the Public Waste Department and then transports the waste to the other end of asia for processing when you think dope on the other hand the bags to yourself in the beds but of the 2. So no one could see. Them cause been assisting lost lost locals to the very places to us yes 123 bad spiegel so we need to send another 138 beds for this. Sometimes he now feels as if she were the garbage manager. Having the bottles the station is how we dispose it is the issue and how we handle the spasticity should issue that it in the ocean now most of the. Highlands that we have had burning and i know from mafia collecting your savings from the burn as well as when you burn it it rains all the chemicals are going into our groundwater and its in the cocoa not sending the you know the fruits and vegetables that we grow it from audience so its really its really a problem you need to find another material thats much better. The part of the team has to move on but shaheen a promise is mark to come back in a few weeks to take care of the bottles. Back in mala shayna prepares for next trip to raise awareness. Once again should be focusing on Getting School children interested in minimizing garbage along with plastic snorkels she brings happiness. Canada has just promised to finance a Garbage Disposal center on the island with the friendly headmaster. These are the moments she fights for the house and her own son and his children they remind her of her purpose i dont want him to be so awful his case like i have always. You know i dont be reading to my grandkids you know look the whales leave you know and hes a late model grad was never we did you know he just thought of it it was slowly but. I mean we need to be real its any other to its not just a. I mean such a sad reality isnt it. Thats what keeps me going hey this. September 19th 93. 00 israelis and palestinians signed the oslo accords. In the middle east seemed possible. 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