Is there any wonder at all that music and the Web are such a good duo? We’re talking about not just one musician at the moment, but the entire prospect and enjoyment of music as a whole — this vital, basic, primal human activity, making music, is particularly at home on the Web. Why is that?
<h2>Music Everywhere</h2>
Well, the close link between music and the WWW (think back to Napster and MySpace) probably has to do with the primal roots of both in human nature. We know that making music and sharing it is a basic human activity.
The Web, too, is a tool for sharing, creating and communicating in general — it works that way for music as well as all other arts, crafts and skills. So the deep human drive behind the Internet as well as music is essentially the same, but at different levels of complexity.
<h2>Music of the Mind</h2>
Music functions both as pure amusement and enjoyment for listeners, all the way to being an artistic science — great thinkers and scientists commonly praise the intellectual depth of music above other arts, or even above respected forms of knowledge like Science itself.
The Web, too, can be either light fun or highly intellectual — it is a wide space for the human mind. The fact that enjoying music is so popular, if not the most popular thing online overall, is natural because it is normal in human experience around the world. The Web reflects this truly.
There is a broad spectrum of musical activity online. It’s not just pirated tracks, YouTube videos or stuff shared in Facebook. Online music media goes far beyond even websites like this, with information about particularly talented artists.
Youngsters are learning guitar online, and sharing their own songs. There are musical games to play, and endless entertainment centered around musicians or groups, all available on the Web. This is a musical environment, rather than just a place for music like an old-fashioned store.
In the end, the fact that the Web is so vast, holds so much, and is expanding so fast — that it’s possible to click here for online games or click in other directions for music, news, or anything — again enriches and feeds back into its musical foundations!