quoted 7 lines Today, I'd be more tempted to say that while this wacky IDM stuff will>
>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.
quoted 1 line Or will we have come around to Mozart? Or jazz?> > 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.>~~