SBIR Phase II: A Cloud-Enabled Digital Art Service for User-Generated Music

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将开发一种基于云的互联网服务，促进用户生成音乐（UGM）的免费全球交换。最近硬件、软件和互联网的技术融合大大降低了音乐制作和发行的资本要求。使用廉价的制作工具进行音乐创作已经达到了一个临界点，现在有机会在生产者和消费者之间直接促进全球、开放和自由的音乐交流。云计算以一种高度可伸缩、功能强大且经济高效的方式提供了促进这种交换的能力。云计算还支持基于云的音乐消费方法，该方法消除了文件管理和备份的消费者负担，同时增加了可访问性。这个项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是对媒体驱动的云计算应用程序部署的健壮性和成本效率的更大的技术理解，以及对当前音乐市场和音乐消费方式的潜在极端破坏。音乐深深植根于人性，贯穿我们的生活经历。在过去的一个世纪里，围绕着录制音乐的经济活动集中在少数几家公司。该二期项目支持一项创新，使这种经济活动更公平地传播，为消费者提供云便利，为生产者直接接触消费者，为附属公司提供扩大的市场，为社会提供民主化的音乐。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will develop of a cloud-based, Internet service that facilitates a free and global exchange of user-generated music (UGM). A recent technological convergence of hardware, software, and the Internet has greatly reduced capital requirements for music production and distribution. The use of inexpensive production tools for music creation has reached a critical point and an opportunity now exists to facilitate a global, open, and free musical exchange directly between producer and consumer. Cloud computing offers the ability to facilitate this exchange in a highly scalable, capable, and cost efficient manner. Cloud computing also enables a cloud-based music consumption methodology which eliminates the consumer burdens of file management and backup while increasing accessibility. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the greater technological understanding of the robustness and cost efficiencies of media-driven, cloud computing application deployments, and a potentially extreme disruption of current music markets and music consumption methods. Music is deeply rooted in human nature and throughout our life experience. Over the past century, the economic activity surrounding recorded music was concentrated in a small number of companies. This Phase II project supports an innovation that spreads this economic activity more equitably and provides the consumer music with cloud convenience, the producer direct access to consumers, affiliates with expanded markets, and society with democratized music.