The future sounds exactly like what you think it will sound like, and it will sound like nothing you imagined once it has arrived. For all we know music in the 2030s could be acoustic after a solar flare has wiped out all the electronics. Our perspective is limited, the future is entirely inscrutable. And at the peak of the Dubstep boom nobody probably thought that soon producers would turn their eyes several decades backwards and Synthwave would boom, and suddenly the future would sound just like a more polished version of the past.
Nobody in the early 2000s thought that there would be very soon commercial boom centered around basicaly slowed-down, shuffled Neurofunk with jarring trance/house sections glued on top. It doesn’t even take 20 years to be completely myopic about what is around in the corner. The copyright lawyers of the era probably dreams of hip-hop stripped off all sampling and reduced to an ultra-minimalistic synthetic style, but Trap was never an inevitability. In the 90s pretty much nobody would have thought that in the 2010s slowing down 80s synth funk or speeding up pop songs and anime openings would even count as music, let alone spawn their own subgenres and subcultures.įor a less outlandish example, the 90s dance scene probably didn’t think that in 2010s the most popular electronic dance music genre would (at least for a while) basicaly be random honks over mid-tempo 4/4 jackhammer beats. So, in my mind what will be most important is not HOW it will be played, but WHY, which will reflect a paradigm after all knowable knowledge and power has been acquired.įuture always sounds like what we imagine it sounding it like today. But, again, an ethics of tech will have be the final say, as the present cause of invention “just because we can” will seem irresponsible and regressive. We are all simply going to HAVE to be programmers, and necessity requires decentralization.Īdd with this AI and biotech, and computing on the atomic scale/optics, our own bodies will again have a new “sacred” meaning. I am just not seeing too many Apples in the future, I suppose there will always be some, but I am semi-inspired by the tech malls in China, with the plethora of copies, and parts and young people hacking away and the demystification of tech. It is more likely in the near future it will be more common to sell ideas/schemes and fabrication to consumers than actually set up shop. Plus, there may be new materials, too, or genetic alteration of materials and highly personalized, interchangable components- think the modular industry going mass scale, customized printed components on the cheap. I do not think there will be many new musical inventions, but tech augmentations to ones that have carried strings, or made of wood, metal, etc., electro-acoustics, new methods of stimulating the air, moving it, perhaps even directly to neurons… So, as far as music and instrumentation, I always pictured a techno-tribal society: the overriding context going back to primitive ritual and ceremony in a world even hyper-socialized and structured out of necessity. The present is very much concerned with exploration and exhange of information and pushing boundaries, I would say the purpose is to arrive again at a larger mutual boundary, which is going to be hightened by our common interest in basic survival. There seems to be a narrowing, a unifying principle. (A glimpse of the future is rooted in the past.) I feel that things are eventually, even past this Age going organic, when all machinery both natural and artificial share information and method. It takes another type of thinking beyond binary. I think quite a bit about the future, and, even the possible theory of the Future dictating the Past. Agree +1, when we talk about future, it inherently includes everything that has preceeded, everything that has survived.
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