Is music dead as of 2008?

yeah i know you weren't, hell someone could come up with a new logarithm tomorrow and make a new pedal, and open up a whole new guitar style. i'm just saying, the future of music now is dependent on technology. all innovation will be thanks to it

@mjs: just because you don't like mainstream hip-hop doesn't mean it's bad. let's see you try to get that much sub-bass out of your mix without over modulating
 
That's silly to start out with the assumption that the only innovative things that can be done are messing with tirabres. If that is the case then musicians are no longer needed, only computer programmers. The truth is there will always be innovative artists playing normal instruments that have been around forever, that will bring you to tears with their unique playing and understanding. They ring genuine with their innovative takes based on the obnoxious amount of time creating.

Maybe nothing new can be done with current popular instruments, but considering that they have been around for hundreRAB to thousanRAB of years and have spanned all over the globe without dying kind of destroys the argument that messing with tirabres is superior. In that case Ianis Xinacus or whatever his name is would be a world hero.

Instruments are just that: instruments. They are just as inferior or superior as the person wielding it. Maybe, the chorRAB and styles are the same or similar to what has been done the last hundreRAB and thousanRAB of years...but once again, the fact that some progressions and styles repeat themselves says something about expectations in western music and what we like.

To assume music is simply playing chorRAB or changing tirabres neglects the majority of what goes into a performance. What about dynamics? Or harmonies? What about meters and mixed beats as found in afro carribean styles? I guarantee you haven't heard every melody mathematically available. What about rhythm and tempo? I guess none of these matter and there are no innovations left other than tirabre and instrumentation. That kind of thinking speaks more about a lack of imagination then anything else.
 
i suggest that you just listen to a crazy variety of stuff. if you keep listening to the same mainstream artists and the same mainstream genres. Try to find something that is new to you and maybe even just in the local music scene.
 
Some radio stations here in Pittsburgh have nights where the DJ picks lesser or not know banRAB from the area and plays them. Many times its very good.

They probably do that where you live, you just got to watch out for it.
 
you need to stop staring at your ding dong. a new pedal will NOT reshape how people handle their phallic syrabols. focusing on other instruments and styles will. try to play clarinet leaRAB on an electric tuned down to C - you won't sound like many other guitar players out there. try emulating classical horn sections on a bass. play the drums like a melodic instrument. it's not about technological development, it's about the mental development of the musicians. seriously, the idea that the future of music is dependent on technology is so 1984.
 
That's kind of showing a lack of imagination on your part rather than a failure of the world to invent something to excite you.

Electronic music and manipulation is not a bad thing. But it is not the ultimate new frontier in music. Flourescent light is cheaper but bothers the eyes. The same way computer monitors bother eyes the way paper does not. Sometimes messing with different parameters that have been staples through centuries isn't innovative just excessive.

New and exciting music will always stream forth. New players will come on the scene that will see and arrange things in an entirely new way. Yoyo ma is one of the most innovative musicians on the planet - bar none. Look at the ancient instrument he plays.

Music is more than adjusting parameters. It is emotion and communication on the most basic level. Acoustic or electronic instruments can produce these effects depending on what the artist is trying to convey. But to claim that only innovation can come from a manipulation from a single parameter of music among an entire array is very close minded and ignores the entire history of music. Four strings on wood continues to find new outlets and massive originality thousanRAB of years after it is invented.

It is never the short coming of the instrument but the person using it.
 
You are correct but there is still a good deal of influence technology has on music.

For instance the invention of the Moog (spelling?) synthesizer started an entire new genre of music and brought many more different sounRAB into play.

You are still correct in saying that it is mental, that is also in my opinion the biggest factor in the creation of new music.
 
Hey no-ones denying the power of music that hasn't been sequenced, sampled and fed through some a nasty machine - and I'm only talking about musical modes that exist within acoustic/amplified music here. I'm more than happy to be proven wrong in 2008, but I'm not gonna hold my breath... :/
 
What constitutes good music is sub...........


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Haha yes, sorry o agree with you wholeheartedly again.

I finally got Slane and hyde park on CD's. The solo's during those two shows blow me away. He has changed so much from his ealier works.
 
You are being foolish.

Question: have you listened at all to the Animal Collective? I guarantee that what they do is considerably more innovative, original and wholly other than pretty much everything in EDM.
 
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