From Akashic Librarian Sent Sat, Sep 4th 1999, 06:47
From Akashic Librarian Sent Sat, Sep 4th 1999, 06:47
> >Today, I'd be more tempted to say that while this wacky IDM stuff will >probably have a longer "shelf life" for me, I would like to think that the >majority of the music I'm listening to when I'm 60 or 70 will be stuff >that is being recorded when I'm 60 or 70. That is to say I hope that I >never lose the bug for new sounds, and continue to drive my wife crazy >with my habitual record buying until the day we die. :) Agreed. Looking at it from another angle... Wouldn't it be safe to say that the production techniques and music-tech in general be so advanced that what we call crisp clean production today will in the future be the equivalent of us listening to scratchy 78's from mid-century? Who'd want to listen to those old crappy stereo recordings when you have you're 8.1 surround sound set up that gives you the full joy of the recent octosonicly enhanced releases, the year 2037 not already half over and you've got you're top10 of the year already comfortably filled. Listening to the majority of releases from the early nineties, except for a few timeless albums and others released years before their time, is already just for those moments when you reminisce about good old days and faves of the day. The early 90's have more connection to '70's electronic in aesthetics then the second half of this decade... whowouldathunk that the whole electroacoustic crackle and pop/glitch worship thing would become as large a factor as it is today? One can only drool in neophilic lust in expectation of the sounds we can only theorize about at this time, if these past few years are any signifier of the growth and audio mutations to come. > > Or will we have come around to Mozart? Or jazz? I'd like to think we'll have our own electronic Mozart's and M. Davis's once the inevitable maturation and mastering of our instruments occurs along with the extra couple of decades it'll take for those who were born listening solely to electronic music to come into their own. A period of great change has barely started... Akashic ~~<There are some kinds of knowledge that can only be expressed in music, not in any other art, not in science or philosophy.>~~