First off I want to say this video below cracked me the hell up but while I was laughing something occurred to me. If you can make someone sound like he is singing when all he is doing is talking like in this video you wonder about the possibilities of the future of "auto-tune" technology. Before 5 years ago you had to have at least some sort of musical ability to create music, granted technology was almost always there to help but at it's core you still needed some sort of musical ability to sing, or play an instrument. Today, all you need is auto-tune and midi and your average run of the mill jock or person who has no musical ability whatsoever can create music and pass himself off as a "musician".
A lot of people don't see the harm in that but I do, because what it does is devalue the very state of music itself. Music is no longer an artform, for the most part, especially in the mainstream.
Music is dead in the mainstream and the future seems a lot worse unless we wake up and realize that music is art. What makes music special is the ability of certain people to create it without the help of computers, sadly the future see technology hiding it so much no one will be able to know whether someone can sing or play or not. Technology will be so advanced that in live situations more than likely, "perfection" will be controlled by technology as well.
If this were to happen. Music would have zero value and at that point in time music will be dead.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Music will be dead
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ABSOLUTELY TRUE. I have been trying to get my friends to realize this
ReplyDeleteI understand where these comments come from, but the reality of music is that like all life, it is a cycle.
ReplyDeleteJust like the seasons a musical mainstream is born, eventually discovered, thrust to the ultimate height, then washed away for some indiscernible amount of time. The glory of the cycle is that someday, nearly all music is rediscovered. *sorry pre-recording technology artists that never printed the songs*
The term "Retro" is then applied to the sound of the now-defunct mainstream that was, then it is repackaged with other elements of contemporary and retro and becomes "new".
This could be bad, if you are talking about New Kids on the Block, the Backstreet Boys, Britany Spears, etc, but that will always come with the cycle.
The amazing thing is when artists like Marvin Gaye, Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Kurdt Kobain, Bradley Nowell and their ilk are revived through this process. And it happens, everyday. Even if we don't see it in the mainstream now.
But the point I'm trying to make is that natural music follows this same cycle. There will never be a time that I will fear that a resurgence of "true", "real", "natural" music could not happen soon.
When the music gets to the point of digitization that it has *or unfortunately will sometime soon* it is cast aside. The artists become outdated *THANK GOD for that* and quickly are relegated to "hasbeen" status among the newly recycling mainstream.
No what I fear more than the potential for complete annihilation of what music should stand for by digitization and technology, is the watering down of music through regurgitation of the SAME songs over and over. This didn't happen so much when the world wasn't globalized. Now, we have the population and the universal distribution to have to witness the rise and fall of MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of duplicate bands.
People are swayed by the least of these often, and sometimes never see the treasure that can lie in the "new mainstream" of music, which is without a doubt the internet.
If we are drown in a sea of worthless music, will we be able to drink in the occasional incredibly talented musician?
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PS, MANY great artists with definite talent have utilized the same technologies you are dismissing above to create amazing works of art, in their own right.
Now should Carl Sagan be made to "sing", that is the real question. *love the concept of the words though; and the Hawking cameo!*