Some art is ephemeral. Not all art needs to preserved for all time. Have you ever seen a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala? The monks spend weeks creating an amazing detailed geometric piece of art, and then carefully destroy it, pouring the sand into a nearby river.
That said, I'm sure that the actual music will be released in a more portable/permanent format at some point.
This really isn't that much different from other album concepts that depend on a particular medium. The Who's Tommy is a rock opera; but more people know just the album. I recall various artists releasing albums on CD-ROM with interactive graphics and animation back in the mid '90s; and of course those were platform specific, for now obsolete platforms (though you may be able to run them in an emulator if you want to try playing them).
Enjoy the art now, in the context it was created for. Maybe it will exist in the future, maybe it won't. Don't worry about it too much.
> This really isn't that much different from other album concepts that depend on a particular medium. The Who's Tommy is a rock opera; but more people know just the album.
Just the album? Tommy is a rock opera album. Rock opera is a genre, or subgenre. How does a rock opera depend on a specific medium?
That said, I'm sure that the actual music will be released in a more portable/permanent format at some point.
This really isn't that much different from other album concepts that depend on a particular medium. The Who's Tommy is a rock opera; but more people know just the album. I recall various artists releasing albums on CD-ROM with interactive graphics and animation back in the mid '90s; and of course those were platform specific, for now obsolete platforms (though you may be able to run them in an emulator if you want to try playing them).
Enjoy the art now, in the context it was created for. Maybe it will exist in the future, maybe it won't. Don't worry about it too much.