Pollyanna
Platinum Member
From Andy's triggers thread:
I feel roughly the same and, like Larry, I confess to old fartdom. In fact, I think this dehumanising of music has been going for a long time, starting with the electrification of instruments in my lifetime. Bob Dylan and Miles both got in trouble for moving away from the warmth of acoustic instruments.
During the 70s and 80s a lot of music started sounding more perfect/consistent and less organic.
Now people gather in clubs to dance to recorded music performed by machines (with a human driver, admittedly ) and many of them take E's and speed to keep up with the machines that never tire, never have breaks, never stop ... when I was young that idea would have seemed like sci fi. You'd have the homely good guys under threat from the wicked robot doof doof people etc ... Hayden Christensen and Angelina Jolie to play the main robot person villain and his girlfriend
Seriously ... this trend looks like continuing. How far do you think it will go? 100% robot music in the mainstream? (accepting that there will always be renegades who prefer organic music).
Or will there be a rebellion against mechanised pop art? Matt once used the term "artificial music-like product" to describe musak and it seems to describe a fair bit of music in the Top 40 today too. Will people eventually say "enough is enough!" and embrace organic humanness again or are we evolving into cyborgs?
Big topic, eh?
I'd rather hear human inconsistencies over studio perfection every day of the week. Music is losing it's humaness and we are slowly being conditioned to be more like machines, just my opinion. It's sad to me.
I feel roughly the same and, like Larry, I confess to old fartdom. In fact, I think this dehumanising of music has been going for a long time, starting with the electrification of instruments in my lifetime. Bob Dylan and Miles both got in trouble for moving away from the warmth of acoustic instruments.
During the 70s and 80s a lot of music started sounding more perfect/consistent and less organic.
Now people gather in clubs to dance to recorded music performed by machines (with a human driver, admittedly ) and many of them take E's and speed to keep up with the machines that never tire, never have breaks, never stop ... when I was young that idea would have seemed like sci fi. You'd have the homely good guys under threat from the wicked robot doof doof people etc ... Hayden Christensen and Angelina Jolie to play the main robot person villain and his girlfriend
Seriously ... this trend looks like continuing. How far do you think it will go? 100% robot music in the mainstream? (accepting that there will always be renegades who prefer organic music).
Or will there be a rebellion against mechanised pop art? Matt once used the term "artificial music-like product" to describe musak and it seems to describe a fair bit of music in the Top 40 today too. Will people eventually say "enough is enough!" and embrace organic humanness again or are we evolving into cyborgs?
Big topic, eh?