Global Citizen Live, the concert (streaming) that will change the music

Things have changed. Gradually, almost naturally, one small step at a time. But they have changed in a radical, complete, absolute way and it is the concert that reminds us of this Global Citizen Live, started at 7pm yesterday (Saturday 25 September) and broadcast simultaneously all over the world through the Net, 24 hours of music from 7 different continents, with stages set up in Paris, Rio De Janeiro, Mumbai, New York, Sydney, London, Los Angeles and Lagos.

Things have changed: I started seeing the concert on my smartphone yesterday at 7pm, while I was driving through the streets of Trastevere in Rome, I saw and listened Elton John singing live on the Paris stage. I kept going home, hooking up to YouTube through the TV and blaring the music over the stereo system when they got on stage before the Black Eyed Peas and then i Maneskin. When it got late and my family wanted to go to sleep, I continued to watch the live broadcast that in the meantime had moved to New York with Cindy Lauper, from my study, on the iPad, which I then took with me to bed, before going to sleep. I woke up at 8 and turned on my smartphone again, following the final parts of the concert that was in the meantime in Los Angeles while I was in the bathroom. And I continued to see the performers on stage even when I went to take the taxi to go to the station and take the train, on which I continued to see the concert which was live from Brazil, connected to my iPad, which did not miss the connection almost never.

I see a live event that takes place on 7 continents and lasts 24 hours, which is broadcast from all over the world, I see it where I want, on different devices, without interruptions, and if I don’t want to follow it all live, I can see, always online, the highlights of what I missed, maybe because I got a phone call or because I had other commitments. And while the concert goes, I read the messages, which scroll on a part of my smartphone screen, of those who are following the concert with me, from all over the world, and who share the event, written in all possible languages.

For the past 16 hours I’ve done around the world with my devices, I followed live in the car, on the train, at home, what was happening in many distant places. Things have changed there communication has changed, ours habits have changed, much more than we imagine. And the music, once again, it is on the frontier of this change.