Henrik Berggen aime la musique et il aime l’informatique. Et il est très actif. Quand il ne lance pas un site pour écouter la musique des villes, il participe au music hack day, travaille avec SoundCloud et j’en passe… En plus il a l’air sympa et répond aux interviews en deux temps trois mouvements et plein d’idées dedans…

Can you introduce yourself?

I’m a 29-year old web hacker who loves music.

You are working on a lot of projects towards music. What is your feeling towards music?

Two of my biggest passions has always been technology and music. I started listening to Daft Punk when i was 16 and later became a DJ and producer doing mostly House and Techno. But i’ve always also worked a lot with computers and the web. Over the last few years i’ve had the opportunity to combine these two passions by working with audio platform SoundCloud and now CitySounds.fm

How do you discover new artists today?

Mainly through my social graph. That means the people i follow on twitter, the artists that send me tracks on SoundCloud, links on Facebook etc. Well, and friends who just tell me about stuff that’s good of course.

What is –according to you- the real problem of music industry?

Quite a big question that has more that one answer. But I think that one of the reasons is that they are looking at technology and innovation in the wrong way. Instead of embracing it and try to use it to find out how to make money in the future they fight it with all they got. And i think that’s the wrong strategy.

Any thoughs on music piracy and the fight towards it?

I think piracy is mainly a transition problem. When the music industry comes up with ways of distributing music that’s easy, cheap and attractive, piracy will be a marginal problem.

One artist, band you’d like to share?

Right now i’m into the british pop hope Ellie Goulding and the Burial follow up June Miller.

Subsidiary question: which point are we missing about music today?

That’s it’s about having fun, not making money!

Voilà encore un monsieur avec une approche sur la musique de demain à l’opposé de celle des majors. Merci à Henrik et qu’il continue à se lâcher sur des projets musicaux comme CitySound. Ca me va. Retrouvez Henrik sur Twitter et sur son site.

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