Globalization – How a German Artist Exploited an Indian and Chinese Composer
When we critically talk about the way of the current globalization, we often talk about corporations, that outsource jobs to other countries in order to lower the company’s expenses. Recently, German composer and performance artist Johannes Kreidler did the same with his recent performance art called Fremdarbeit.
Globalization - Outsourcing to China and India
Kreidler, 29, trained composer and music teacher, received a composing job by Klangwerkstatt Berlin. To fulfill the task, he did what corporations like to do in order to maximize their profits: He outsourced the work. Basically he outsourced his own job to India and China. Thanks to the internet, he found the people he needed. Kreidler payed 90$ to the low wage workers and, on top of that, actually claimed a lot of the copyright of the work.
The German artist found and hired one Indian audio programmer and one Chinese composer to copy his style and compose 4 pieces of music with Kreidler’s signature sound. Since the foreign musicians never did something like that – the Chinese composer usually produces music for weddings – the music turned out to be a strange mixture of western and eastern influences, so said Kreidler. The work of the chinese composer actually pleased him and he would not hesitate to say, that it could be his own music, quality wise.
But who cares about perfected music anyways. The German composer will receive 1500$ for his work in Germany. Time is money. 1500$ – 90$ = 1410$ profit. Easy work, mission accomplished. Daddy turbo-capitalism would be proud of Johannes Kreidler, if it wasn’t an action to point out grievances that take place daily in the current globalization.
After this sad article, some cuddly and friendly music 
Thank you for your interest
Zalia
lol i love the video at the end of the article
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Hey this is a cool blog! Don’t let mega corporations dictate the way of teh globalization !
First i like your blog so much and then reading this article i tell you that the situation is same like in India Pakistan also peoples from UK and USA and other countries hired some in Pakistan and India and pay just a cent to these peolpes…like in field of Grapghics designing…
Yes. It happens, because the No.1 rule is that capital has to be increased, profits have to be maximized.
It is going crazy. Actually, corporations are already outsourcing jobs from countries that they outsourced job TO a few years ago. Countries such as romania.
The money, the capital, wanders around in the world and looks for investments with the maximum profit.
And … there are so many more IMPORTANT things to do!
Thanks for your article.I’m planning to learn many methods to make money with supporting outsourcing services. Outsourcing Services, such as Web Development Outsourcing Services. I got some information about the Outsourcing from this article and is useful to me.Tks again.
Wow. Sometimes, reality strikes harder than art and words.
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