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any way you may turn in the show. hello welcome to new edition of the europe max and this is what else we have in store for you. tiny emphasizes the monks turns to world into realistic ritualists. fragrance and what i love to find all being greedy and for her restaurant in. brings to mind stunning mountain scenery and traditional costumes for me at least this typical swiss instrument belongs in the alps but the dress sits in the orchestra had other ideas day took the alp horn down from the mountains and brought it to an urban setting but still high up in the sky we went to the capital of sex in the foot a welsh premier of a very special. concert. pine

sounds in the urban tower blocks of the coolest district interest in the alps corn spring from a height of 50 metres. an open air concert with distance marcus clint director of the dressed in symphony orchestra came up with this idea over a year ago when he 1st saw the 17 story high buildings. they were. very similar to an all in one. building is create steep gorges. and that's when i thought about having the musicians spread out across these different roofs playing together building by building or house or house. to match the surprise the housing company agreed to the project. the members of the tristan symphony orchestra play from atop multiple high rises. and the car park is

no exception musicians are playing the w. try. it's a concept that requires a great amount of planning and preparation the dress rehearsal took place at rest in the exhibition center and the other one has a leading role musician giuliana bulkier has been playing it since childhood. to spirit this is a scene when you play it you can see that it's quite a simple almost primitive instrument you can play about 1617 notes on it and i can demonstrate it if you like. that's. compose the mako sliman haun wrote a new piece specifically for the high rise concert the distance between the musicians meant there was another level of planning involved. invite the group

that's furthest away from the audience in the middle they start playing 1st and that's mainly just by having a metronome ring in the ears and then the timing needs to be adjusted accordingly so the 1st group plays the 1st bar almost a 2nd before the for question is don't believe him. just before opening night the orchestra members warm up by playing little concerts during the day lesson the music fill the neighborhood. right in this persons or move. a mini concert or a really nice the music was beautiful. i love music and it's great when it's combined with new concepts and the concept of direct america's current would like this idea to develop even further. current distro jam because in the beginning of a series that pretty place and many other high rise cityscapes around the world in the future. could reach so many people by bringing music directly to where they

live seaborne was you leave an. opening night is here and the musicians are in place on the rooftops securely fastened. then the big moment arrives the premier of the nearly composed piece the heavens above pulled this. as it's been i'm so happy and now the sun is setting giving everything this golden sheen beautiful. a success perhaps this is only the beginning and the dressed in symphony orchestra will transform high rise rooftops around the world into open air concert for us. from the urban jungle to nature a lot of us probably remember from childhood to fear of getting lost in the woods that might be where the fascination with labyrinth and mazes tops from well if

you're interested in mazes there is one in italy which is considered the largest in europe maybe even the world's for our series europe to the max we send reporter henry growing into that labyrinth i wonder if he ever made it out i haven't seen it for a while. i got lost no wonder because i'm in the biggest labyrinth in europe. with seemingly endless paths. lots of branches. and how hundreds of thousands plants and in the center of it a great art collection. i venture into the labyrinth

and it's a total of 3 kilometers of passages on about $70000.00 square metres of ground area . bamboo maze. it's the biggest labyrinth in the world. the love it into that i must go on or near the city of tara in northern italy is designed to get its hapless visitors already confused. and what's the fulfilment of a dream by the late publisher franco maria ritchie he had some 200000 bamboo plants put in on his private land. they grow fast stay green and reach heights of up to 15 meters perfect for making a maze. this way or that way. through the letter and has an entrance and exit and many many passageways in between enough to get hopelessly lost. already.

everything looks the same yeah you always think i know this path and then you realize it's in a totally different area. it took 2 different path and i have no idea where. is the love it into that i must own is based on a geometric design rim innocent of the roman music straight corridors and right angles only which makes finding your way all the harder. i'm just as fascinated as confused but help is available in case of emergency your position is marked at regular intervals and you can call in your location on your phone and it will be no the labyrinths director will come and get you in person he showed me the way out of the labyrinth to the center of this state. it's a neo class of. buildings. people have always been fascinated by labyrinth

they appear in antiquity in ancient greek sagas and in literature. the original meaning of the labyrinth is something really serious and portent is the symbol of our life. the kind of difficult things that if we found and difficult path that we follow in our life and. beliefs and find their way out and find the salvation. the site is part of the legacy of the late italian publisher and editor franco maria ritchie he put together an exhibition showing his lives achievements here he made his fortune with exquisite special editions of art books as well as the art magazine f a man and as a designer his private collection of art from 5 centuries is my reward for having mastered the labyrinth. it was the last major project for franco maria ritchie who died recently at the age of 82 his wife la rock assad has collaborated on it.

this is franco. dream he started in the eighty's to talk about. one day. be the one who built the largest maze in the world and about 30 years later he actually started he sold the publishing house you know he's always been somebody who did things in a different way so frank has always done so the unexpected in his life actually. i really want to get this figured out so once again i enter the world's biggest leverage. i never thought getting lost could be so much fun and that will be my takeaway for life that you sometimes have to go the wrong way to find your own path .

if you want to see more fascinating stories from our series europe to the max such as the world's biggest cuckoo clock just go to our you tube channel w you're on the text this is our studio shrunk down to dalhousie size funny how tiny i look in reality of course i'm very very tall well the artist done all mama has made these kinds of miniatures his life's work he turned special places into realistic tiny rectally cause he even opened a museum that showcases them we went to know in france to walk through these remarkable tiny worlds. seen the renowned restaurant in paris is known around the world. but why do they have a ready made tables here when there are neither waiters nogueira. this

miniature version of the famous restaurant in the french capital was created by dunn among it took him a year to finish the handmade miniature. love and i mean you're drawing these through the miniature as an outsider and has existed for centuries and can even be found in the ancient egyptian pyramids. in the 17th and 18th centuries when you had miniatures which usually depicted daily life. is a painting technique but also 3 dimensional many of the ban on me. after working as a carpenter and interior designer done started doing stage design for theatre and opera productions as part of the job he had to build small models of his ideas 1st that's when he discovered his passion for working as a miniature wrist which remains unchanged even 35 years later.

stage down omar is constantly working on new tiny creations and. staying true to scale often requires months of hard work every one of his miniatures is an exact copy of a real ceiling which he replicates on a scale of one to 12. and therefore for knish sometimes a neon munster finish them chairs there's always something to improve or redo. it can be annoying but it's still satisfying to have that when you're trying at the fact you don't need to be courageous to persevered but when you finish it's a moment of joy sometimes it takes an entire year to finish one miniature. i mean. in 2005 done omar opened his museum of miniatures in the heart of the long historic district it was here in francis 3rd largest city that he arrived for an exhibition

in 1989 bringing on 3 trucks bearing tiny artworks he immediately fell in love with the city here i shall say i'm fortunate enough to know the leon quarter all year road it's a medieval part of town and it's like reading is a unesco world heritage site and you can see how beautiful it is to me it was like a miniature. on an area of 2000 square meters visitors can see over $100.00 extremely realistic miniature scenes built by various european many tourists though the majority were made by done on one himself. oh my proof of 11 years of i think the miniature of the ballet was particularly beautiful because it really did the cityscape of living which you can see through the windows of the opera house because. my favorite miniature is this leo bistro the whole scenery is full of little details and it's very precise in its depiction of what

really impresses me is the light as well as the individual objects in the room you can see how much work has been put into it. in addition to scenes from done omar has basically replicated half the world but he's not short of ideas for future miniature projects. i saw a very atmospheric place a family lives there. it's an old palace. there are a lot of empty palaces there and the atmosphere is incredible and in these fantastic palaces hundreds of white sheets we in the wind it was really impressive and i'm currently working on a miniature of the sea and it will be a beautiful sea of it and if you listen. to the lens natural history museum as a dollhouse in down on mons were gigantic skeletons are easy to handle and huge

rooms oh rather cute viewers are stunned by his artwork even though or maybe because it seems hardly differ from the real thing. when chef needs ingredients for her restaurant she goes to our grabs for a basket and walks into nature wild herb's berries seaweed and plants that all of us would call weeds she creates a menu according to what ever she finds and that is quite a lot because she lives on the isle of man a real paradise. for. just walking along and just seeing what there is and browsing the island. that for me is not so much. my

money because i'm a chef no not a restaurant that's on the other not i'm going to show you how i started my all the rest. i moved out of my and just a couple of years ago i actually came to open a different restaurant and just completely silent over the place and the storage and opportunities and just decided ok my plans for the future i'm just going to do them now is the perfect opportunity and i did. kind of man is that the foragers is less the authorities haven't. made. the found some ground though so it was a full get out we this is like really had they just kind of coffee flavor is a nuisance with office so it's like really invasive intrusive because it was right to get rid of it and i'll use this in the restaurant in many ways and make really not spoil the fish i'm going to try

a load of this out and then just use it to seize instant. time. that become available. it's been like driving. it's kind of unappealing you know not the length of the time and then you like it but such a bright green doesn't taste like c.v. it tastes like the same. i would never leave behind of man it's a you know screw buyers for everything just grows in abundance issues so biodiversity is just insane. this is just like a sea of wood so the whole issue of this whole forest floor is covered in. this is just so shocking to say just perhaps such a strong play that just in such

a small bites it's very very useful in the kitchen. so imma go. i just want to start something that was soley about the ingredients nature has to offer i'm not going to use ingredients from heaven every last it's not available it's not available. this isn't my full palate which is pilot in mind and to be honest there's not much point in going into it just is the fish is not fresh and that's what we did you know which cooking just make us on the plate. the weekly changing menu just goes hand in hand into play in an exciting thing to me understand what's in them because once a customer has to get them excited about the idea. they just around the tasting menu see and it goes and there's the cookies and then we have some church but current sometimes i just been a little bit of local green. i think it's really important to so people

what nature doesn't work that in what is about it's so that then they respect it and they want to look after it. the big 5 making each day enjoyable and making our jobs enjoy able actually enjoying being a chef again. so i really really think that in the restaurant trade sustainability should be at the heart of everything we do now because fundamentally the one thing to me that everybody has in common is that everybody has to eat and it's something we can all sat. down with to see these. stories. to ze as. the

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a glimpse inside the industrial universe of parts usually concealed from the public eye this is where british photographer alister philip wiper is in his element he's photographing the inner workings of copenhagen's new armor a bag a heat and power plant. that can never resist. pipes and millions of words that is why. 40 year old alister philip wiper has a very individual i for industrial spaces it has photos pipes machines and shafts look more like graphic designs or even abstract art he and downs the sterile factory halls with an artistic purpose and expresses his enthusiasm for them. i'm amazed by the way humans can build. your rock you are just.

the fascination of birth of their own rugged kind of. bizarre thing given for places that other people don't get to go to. these images are no feel good calendar art there too i steer for that. about 10 years ago wife i discovered his affinity for industrial complexes and started photographing them above all he's fascinated by their own intended beauty but his compositions also tell us something about what humans create and how. these robots will be able to process frozen pork fat for sausage making. this is a radiometer for atomic particles in a nuclear research lab. and this is an outer space simulator big enough to accommodate entire space ships. and on this photo is a giant container ship a vessel. this size can transport around 850000000 bananas. one of the things that

really fascinates me about this is both the graphical elements the size of it the scale the enormity of it but also there's like a story involved about the way that we live how much of it we produce and how much of it needs to be shipped all over the world. in 2004 wipers visited denmark and stayed on he taught himself a target. he doesn't process his photos much on purpose i try to do as little as i can. because i'd like to work in a simple way it's not because i have any problem with with editing too much but i like to just bring out what is there already rather than trying to kind of add too much to. viewing his images we soon notice that hardly any people appear and. every now and then i do have a person

a picture when i think that it adds something to the picture telling another story but these machines they're all about people built by people. so even the absence of people his works tells about people about their needs and their creations for instance this green house is a plantation for medical cannabis. the museum of decorative arts and design in bordeaux france has collected his images in an exhibition i like the idea that people are amazed by the fact that humans are kind of building this stuff. but i also want people to use their imagination about where it could. where it could lead or what could be happening. i'm mr philip wiper is always on the lookout for new subjects his photographers are high keeps exploring industrial spaces while his images reveal their hidden worlds along with their unintended but subtle beauty.

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laundering and sanctions busting on behalf of criminals. also on the show more mass protests in belarus pro-democracy activists pull another day of demonstrations after police arrest hundreds of people mainly women demanding the resignation of hardline president alexander lukashenko also coming up. living in the new morea migrants say a makeshift greek island of less boss is like a prison with restricted movement and poor sanitation we hear from a reporter who has followed the story. unpublished we opened the program with some breaking news involving money laundering illegal financial flows and a banking scandal of gigantic proportions for years banks around the world appear

to have helped to divert and conceal funds originating from criminal activities documents leaked from a us financial authority finn's and have revealed how major banks facilitated transactions for criminals worldwide the data which was analyzed by a team of 400 journalists show have apparently helped to circumvent sanctions against iran and syria danish and british banks but also by car implicated in the leaked files. and the explosive leaks show criminals and political figures secretly moving money through the global financial system so what exactly are the documents that have blown apart that financial network well the files are leaked papers from the u.s. financial crimes in forstmann network covering more than 2 trillion dollars in suspicious transactions they cover money transfers facilitated by high profile financial institutions such as deutsche bank and to j.p.

morgan and carried out for a sanction to individuals and companies or even criminals across the world between 19992070. well to discuss all of this i'm joined by business reporter arthur sullivan arthur you know this seems like it's a scale that is quite huge you could say it's enormous it is it's quite hard to get your head around it so we just saw some of the figures and some of the headline numbers involves 2 trillion dollars worth of transactions that involve some of these banks so to break that down the documents that this very large international network of journalists foreign journalists in total were working with it was $2100.00 specific documents of financial transactions which they then added to with about $18000.00 additional documents which they got through interviews and through all their leaks so you're talking about a massive amount of data that they had to troll true and when you and in some cases they may be emerge with one name and address and they have to go further to find

out exactly what some of these transactions involved and how they were linked to some of these banks huge scale which will take several days and weeks to truly on pick as the music merges from this big data draw well one of the banks that we've already mentioned is deutsche bank and it says that they're involved in 60 percent of the transactions now what was their role and have they actually responded yet that's right so don't you bank accounts for over one trillion counts or should be very careful here with my wording deutsche bank is involved in so mixed to some extent in over one trillion dollars worth of these transactions now what they are implicated in is that there are in many instances involved in transactions in some cases involving criminal activity now it's not the case that don't you bank are directly accused of course of being involved in the criminal activity but that they facilitated it so for example they maybe were acting as it was called a correspondent by they gave the seal of approval of transactions that were ultimately criminal one big example that sticks relates to the sanctions against iran that were brought in by the us so there was an iranian turkish gold trader who

has been found guilty in the united states of helping iran avoid sanctions and one of the big data drops here shows that deutsche bank was involved in the sale taking several of those transactions between 2. banks which ultimately was money which made its way to iran even though it shouldn't have and there are other cases linking deutsche bank to some transactions which saw russia is also evading sanctions so that some of the things that's accused of deutsche bank has responded to the international consortium for investors journalists they gave a statement in the few days ago saying they accept there was wrongdoing to some extent that there was practices that they weren't happy with but that this is very much in the past that this these years are in the past and that it's a different bank today that's their take on this right or is there but very briefly now this is been going on for years how has this lived has this been happening for so many years that's a very good question paolo to put it to you like this very simply if you go on holidays tomorrow and you decide to splurge on your holidays and you spend loads of money on your credit card you may well get a phone call from your banks and these transactions legitimate however in this case

there are millions that are been funneled around and yes for some reason authorities continue to allow it to happen so it really does raise the question what it's not necessarily illegal what the banks don't why is it that the authorities if they're aware of it because the banks reported this and says why haven't they acted plenty of questions there i'm sure we'll be hearing more about it arthur sort of from from business thanks for that. well moving to about a race where protesters aren't giving up despite a worsening government crackdown tens of thousands of people gathered in major cities throughout the country on sunday police and the army has been out in force again detaining peaceful demonstrators this was the scene in the capital minced its . opposition protests since disputed presidential elections in august the protests have gone ahead despite security forces becoming increasingly brutal in recent weeks. correspondent nick conley has been covering those protests for us and he joins us now from next now intensifying the crackdown on

protestors have authorities in any way succeeded in keeping the numbers down at the mass rally that we saw there in minsk. the short answer is no they definitely were tens of thousands of people out quite how many we don't yet know because the police and authorities had moved out of the center of the main squares where you get a sense of the size of the crowd. this is a crowd that was broken down every time you turned a corner there were more and more people very few drawn out here in dollars they're heavily restricted by the government but certainly tens of thousands of people out and in good humor although you did say greater nervousness from people i think the growing unrest in recent days of the group group growing brutality of police towards death even women women who had previously been treated slightly better by the police that definitely is weighing on people's minds and it ended very suddenly at the end there were

a few police vans out and they didn't have to get out of their van the people just disappeared within a matter of moments that was pretty extraordinary see such big crowds simply disappearing and hiding within a space and so i think this is necessary the end of these protests because you already think people now organize a curse on local levels in their buildings in their neighborhoods certain have to be the big events on the weekend. in the center of town people are organizing and expressing opposition. demonstrators any nearer to achieving their goal of forcing out president. this is the issue this has been going on up for more than a month since this country's rigged election in early august and it is. refusing to speak to what he calls the street he says these protests straighted an organized from abroad that these people are basically the agents of foreign powers trying to destroy belarus and he refuses to engage on a level but when you talk to people here they seem convinced if this keeps going

week by week the numbers keep growing that eventually the government will start cracking down will make mistakes that will be full and that by cracking down these protests they will bring out more people out on the street in response to this brutality so people are certainly not looking like they are going to be back into going back home and think well. thank you. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump says he wants to appoint another woman to replace veteran supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who died on friday republicans have voted to press ahead with the nomination but democrats argue that the process should be delayed until after the election in november. here in germany the interior minister haas say hold has again rejected calls for an investigation into racial profiling by the police insisting that there was no structural problem instead he wants to conduct a study into racism in german society in general 29 german police officers were

recently suspended over a far right group shots. the captain of the rescue ship. by german charity sea ice says the vessel is still waiting for permission to dock on the italian island of lampedusa after picking up more than 100 migrants in the southern mediterranean the 133 people were spotted drifting into overloaded rubber boats and a wooden fishing vessel. well demonstrations have been taking place in cities across europe calling for the evacuation of overcrowded migrant camps on the greek islands and hundreds of people marched here in berlin demanding the german government take in more than the 1500 refugees it's already agreed to relocate meanwhile some 9000 migrants on the island of lesbos be moved to a new company built to replace the mauritius settlement destroyed in a fire. well the reporter joel dole roy has been following this story for

us and he joins me now hi joel now. what exactly has happened in the 10 days since that fire in moria or greek authorities of rapidly build a new camp on a military site on the island of lesbos and most of those margins left homeless by that fire have moved there some reluctantly the united nations refugee agency says that this camp is not fit for long term habitation but some migrants a war that is what will happen now we spoke to a reporter on the ground there and rico he was one of the few journalists who's been allowed inside the camp which is usually closed and what he saw from the small part that he was able to see he said is as bad as the former camp at moria is an extremely windy and exposed location as you'll be able to hear in this report that he sent us from the camp there. the 1st day that they present to enter the contest to see how this is good since inside that's made out of journalists who report it

to incidents since i really do. rocks i know so they did it in front of the sea so we don't know exactly how it's going to be. but that's when the effort to start to realize that they don't want to invest in the new company because you know. that $95.00 references inside off so that it took. off when i describe them the i mean you know that. was they. said. when i was a reporter and unless boss joe we heard some of the reports there from andy gets really bad at the conditions well observers say that there's very little running water that there are no showers and there are very dirty toilets and people arriving there already in poor hygiene condition having affectively lived homeless

for over a week women in particular have been unable to wash and that's leading to hygiene concerns the electricity supplied by flimsy cables on the ground in this concern about what might happen when it rains and also the ground itself it's a former military location and there are concerns that the ground might be contaminated and have munitions in and so and then desperate conditions from what you're telling us now why are the migrants and the observer saying it's like a prison well the markets are being kept behind barbed wire but beyond that they're also being told that they're not allowed to leave not only margarets are allowed to leave these kind of camps but today the gods have been telling him they can't leave in the excuse of being given is that the shops are closed now that's not normal migrants are not prisoners they should have freedom of movement then of course we've got the 200 who have tested positive to covert 19 and they have been locked away separately the other 9000 are still crowded together in these tents very tightly packed so yes we have a new camp on the on the day of lesbos but the condition is still there is still much to be concerned about plenty to be concerned about some awful conditions of

the for those people there thank so much for that shoulder. well moving on now to some sports news and the in the bundesliga vetter braman were hoping to get off to a flying start against have to berlin and put memories of being merely relegated last season behind them were up to nail by half time davy celko scored a consolation for braman but a debut goal by john court of the us sealed a 41 win for the berliners braman could only disappoint the few long suffering funds who were allowed back in to the stadium. well britain is marking the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain during world war 2 and british. hurricane fighter planes flew over them to commemorate the conflict they were among the aircraft which defended britain against attacks by the german in the summer 1940 the air force victory was

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the internet has revolutionized the way becomes your music sign up to a streaming service and you can listen to all your favorites. on the go wherever you are many artists have even begun playing shows in computer games or staging virtual concerts how is all this changing the music industry today on shift.

almost $300000000.00 people stream music via 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 harvest as well and spring to as repertoire has got showcased the brand new trek live in fort myers a hugely popular multiplayer game. is the big moment given recent hip hop fans have been waiting for you would virtual travel scott says it's a multiplayer gaming fortnights to perform live in front of the more than 12000000 players the largest crowds ever to attend a virtual concert like this. the gaming and music industries and burgeoning crossover that attracts to target groups and one

many games now feature cool soon tracks unique dance moves and virtual in game concerts because china i'm just some what i believe. this 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 artists 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 path from just to the u.s. national minimum wage roughly 1400 u.s. $1.20 place would be needed on apple music and over 300001 spotify and amazon. can use issues make a living like that it's tough but it's not all black and white you know we met up

with a german band who say despite the downsides there are benefits to spotify. and after that have been with folk. for 11 years their albums feature german english and arabic lyrics and have made it into german charts at 1st they didn't want them his account spotify. 45 spotify definitely exploits musicians and if you have an almost nothing through streams. it's not even enough for major artists to get by. making an album is a lot of work and costs a lot to record. some at 1st we didn't really like the idea of making your music available for free and people would. have played all over europe winning them and the 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 don't belong to a record label. and if you music get streamed a lot and recommended to other people then you might feature playlist that's what swayed their opinion from 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. the good of them was an overwhelming choice of music now if

you get bored of the song you skip it i guess that discourages artists from producing elaborate 10 minute tracks with 3 minute solos and long intros so yeah 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 it is only receive money if the song has been streamed half a minute or more this is changing how artists craft songs long gone are the days when songs that long winded intros for example or more on that here's chris of a clash of berlin school of popular. hard to get on my over one hits today follow with different formula from take just the bieber's love yourself the song jumps right in with lyrics from the get go. physical target and the

listener knows exactly what the tracks about. this long 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 streaming pad 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 50. 6 percent of global music revenue that's 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 because they're streaming figures and revenue but who curator these play lists. popular music on spotify is promoted on playlists which drives up streaming figures even further. algorithms define who makes it as an artist today. so this play 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 the 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 this to market them like replace the network now owned by sound cloud musicians are now less dependent on music labels but even more so

uncertain algorithms. this is something that pub professor marcus klein i criticize as. fortunately these days producing music is less about creating and more about calculation because our grievances 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 shaft. 'd is pop music no longer a revolutionary force well despite the criticism digitalisation is providing new scope for creativity like the video sharing app ticked up some artists even have a global hit song because of thick fog if their song features on one of the popular to talk challenge are like then that's x. with all told. with the get out 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 these exit of even something like all bands the tour was cancelled because it's 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 have her as a band member staged a concert on a rooftop in cologne live streamed it for all their fans 2 and fortunately there to been then bandmates couldn't join them because of the knock down. the show most important that fans get to see bands in a live context even if it's online. but i believe in can you see it's all over social media rights now social media. streaming is a great way for artists to stay present during lockdown james blunt recently stream

to show from hamburg's elbert philharmonic home. 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 on the health care workers. in addition to their live streaming the publish to music video made from 60 found videos filmed at home in the clip has around 50000 hits on you tube. via. the i think a military only way to stay in touch with fans these days is by live streaming concert live. after thinking footage of past gigs available online you know come. to will now take place in autumn this year provided not down. if not they'll just

keep performing on. 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 there's 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 they're not the vision the market 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 site. many users get to play they should in theory only hear music that they want to hear for that's we need to establish an ongoing relationship with of we have to learn

what music to enjoy in a monday morning for example and so 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 it's on us to support musicians we care about for example by seeing their shows online or one day in real life. what do you think those on your facebook and d.-w. dot com that's it from us this week said you know sort.

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