What innovation could change the face of music during the next decade?

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How we discover, buy, listen to and enjoy new music has been changing rapidly over the last decade. The rise of MP3s, music blogs and forums, virtual bands, music-focused social networking sites – all of these advances have made a massive difference. But nothing stands still, so what the next seismic shift in music culture will be is a hot topic. Where do you think we’re headed?

Answer 1

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i think it would be somthing like abelton, somthing with a very easy interface which can perform live editing on the fly, or mabe the innovation could be somthing that is used with abelton like a touch screen system which could make live editing much quicker. personaly i love using vinyl and i think you cant beat the feel of mixing in that way and with all this new technology it might get forgotten. i hope not though!

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Firsty, thanks to everyone for their responses as they made for a very interesting read. I have chosen this answer as my favourite as Ableton is one of the best technological innnovations in the DJ world at the moment and I like the idea of a hi-tech touch screen system.

Answer 2

the internet.
bands and artists are making music with people they have never even met. for example, phonte (rapper from north carolina) collabo'd with nicolay (in switzerland, i believe) to make an album called "connected" and the album is sick!

Answer 3

The complete removal of manufactured bands and the reintroduction of a group of kids that went to school together, learned to play instruments, wrote some songs, did the pubs and clubs and slogged to get a record contract. Real music from real bands. Also stop bloody sampling and write something original.

Answer 4

Probably musicians who play instruments and can hold a tune, rather than the 'boob boom boom' of the disco crap.

Answer 5

"The complete removal of manufactured bands and the reintroduction of a group of kids that went to school together, learned to play instruments, wrote some songs, did the pubs and clubs and slogged to get a record contract. Real music from real bands. Also stop bloody sampling and write something original"


Hear Hear!! I couldn't have put it better myself!! I was actually thinking exactly the same when I decided to read thru some of the answers first!

Answer 6

No CDs. All music downloaded and loads of new artists who have more of a chance to make it because of the internet.

Answer 7

The reincarnation of the double bass drum pedal.....heavy music is takin over

Answer 8

I agree with Helen. Although a bit of sampling can be creative. Does my head in when lazy arses just take an old song and shout over it though. Leave ELO alone if you can't use it properly you philistines!

Answer 9

The realisation that musicians making real music is quite a good thing.
The realisation that DJ's are and always have been parasites.
Still if you're drugged senseless then a senseless pap churning out pulp for the masses is going to be your hero.

Answer 10

I think an x factor type thing, but with dj's. Being held at a different big club every time, with the judges to be the crowd. Not only will we see and here the latest talents off the street, we get to party as well.

Answer 11

No trilling and over singing and people that put the talent first rather than the looks its as simple has that

Answer 12

Hi pete,Maybe real musicians would come back again?Get ready for a MASSIVE response here mate!!!

Answer 13

Musical talent.

Answer 14

The direct publishing, marketing and selling of recorded and written down music by the composer/performer via the Internet, cutting out the big music businesses. This may be a more democratic way of producing music. It will mean that a great deal more poorly produced or performed music will be available as well as giving a chance to performers and composers who deserve a hearing but never get past the A+R man.

I wonder if this will be an entirely good thing. Consumers of music may find that sorting their way through the greatly enlarged choice is bewildering, time-consuming and tiring. In the past, much of the choosing has been done for us by record companies and radio and TV producers. In the not so distant future we will have to have our own media filters in order to sort out the dross from the danceable, the trite from the tuneful and harpies from the harmonies (or something).

Maybe we need the established media more than we think. Or maybe we will need to accept a world where the very best is no longer picked out for us (according to a record company's view of public taste) and instead we will have to listen to hours of the mediocre in order to come across the truly sublime.

Answer 15

apes learning to play instruments and sing..gorillaz started it perhaps?

Answer 16

Suppose we might do away with CDs altogether and all music will be "virtual" on downloads and MP3s

Answer 17

hehehe, goodness me dont some people get heated about a certain style of music?!?!

I think DJ's could change the face of music, they are the ones that have the intelligence to use the technology of the 'naughties'.....you only have to watch xfactor to see the bunch of hopeless, talentless morons that will be selling way over priced tickets to their concerts in a few months time where they will sing out of tune & have thousands of those people that really have a good ear for music right there jumping up & down screaming for them, oh thats after they have waited in a que for a whole week !

Give me a good DJ anytime ! :-)

......its not about drugs, its about listening !

I had to add that to all the people that think sampling already made music into something different & then playing it on decks is talentless then go & try it ? Its just as bloody hard if not harder than learning to play an instrument.

Jeeeez when will some people hear the cleverness behind a good tune. You dont have to like something to appreciate the amount of work & talent that goes into it !!

Answer 18

A secure method of making people pay for downloads, and a way to encrypt Cd's so they themselves can't be copied otherwise record companies will not pay artists advances for future records.I know everybody hates the idea of fat cat record bosses but most bands/artist's want to make money themselves they need to pay rent too

Answer 19

so many wonderful opinions! I agree with most of what has been said that and the removal of the chav culture.

Answer 20

The musicians learn to play their instruments and the vocalists learn to sing!

Answer 21

Most of it is already happening.

The move away from the need for a publisher and hard format media. The rise of user content creation sites on the internet.

All that is needed now is for affordable composer software or hardware devices that hand-hold the musical novice through the process of creating original music (rather than expensive studio grade sequencing/mixing/sampling kit or mickey mouse amateur, stitch-it-together dance loop software).

With musically 'intelligent' software that we can all afford and use, anybody with a tune in their head or a lyric on their lips can compose, publish and distribute new music.

There will be those who will see this as being the death of real music but that's what everybody said back in the 90's with the rise of electronica & dance music. The fact is that there will always be a discernable difference between the mediocre and genius, ergo; the cream will always rise to the top.

Answer 22

Let us firstly examine what constitutes as music. Without entering into the realms of a Thesis, I feel it can be taken as reasonably accurate that music, of whatever genre, is constructed from melody, harmony and rhythm.

Innovations in music are nothing new. Mozart intoduced the clarinet in to the Classical orchestra, Beethoven introduced the Trombone in to the Symphony, Wagner extended the ideas of Liszt that chords should not resolve with immediacy, and thus created a musical debate that continues to this day. Schoenberg dispensed with tonality completely, whilst his pupils, primariliy Berg and Webern, sought ways of getting tonality back into music without it being too obvious. Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Dallapiccola developed the idea of Schoenberg to the extent of creating excellent music out of nuances of indeterminate chordal and linear equations, that can, however, be deciphered by the aware cognoscenti.
Currently, Harrison Birtwistle is completing this process, to great effect. The use of electronic media was pioneered by these avant-garde artists - the fades, electronic repetitions, and the programmed juxtaposition of the three elements of melody, harmony and counterpoint by electronic means, well predates the atrocities of drum and bass.

The innovation that could most radically change the face of music in the next ten years would be the uttermost rejection by the consumer of the so-called 'pop' (vide popular) sub-culture. This sub-culture, aimed and targeted in particular, to those who do not have the maturity to judge anything,including their own immaturity, by marketeers who purposively pander to adolescent angst by producing material that appeals only to the most primitive instincts, is currently causing serious rifts in society between those who value tranquility and those who, in pursuance of their own immaturity, seek to destroy peace. Posit it as you will, excuse it as you want, the marketing of music destroys both musicianship and musical appreciation, and its exploitation as a marketable commodity derides the Art in totum. The destruction of industry-led 'pop' musical 'culture' could be the best innovation since Milton Babbitt used the computer to generate sound, long before either of us were born.

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I'm a musicologist.

Answer 23

The innovation of realising world music. Looking at the the reallity of what is going on in the the world and, developing a kind of musice that will bring us all together. Music is like art, appreciated from all around the world, we are one we are the future. The future is is the world not countries. When we realise this life will be at pease, but music is the starting point..... This will sen the message

Answer 24

computerised voiceing where you would not even need people to sing. a perfect voice for an song flawless no mistakes. obviously that would stop things like concerts an live shows but money would still b made

Answer 25

I think and feel in 10 year's we will find soul singer's trying heavy rock and punk,
stop and listen most of the songs now dont make sence.you cannot connect to a song today.
10 years or more back i made meat loafs song-i would do anything for love my song and 13years later i danced to it on my wedding day.its our song me and my hubby's.

Answer 26

less of this X factor carry on, and more from bands that write their own music, do pub gigs, work their way up till they get noticed and signed.

Answer 27

video collaboration, strict copyright laws, DRM (digital right management), wireless mp3/video/camera/palmtop/studio in a Lego brick

and legalize cannabis?

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Answer 28

We need another social revolution, maybe make a form of music that will be more artistic and require a more creative aproach. An all out assult on manufactured gumpf by a new wave of social defiance, the next generation need a cause, maybe if we started fighting for a better future and environment then that would be the spark needed to set a new culture off.

We had punks, mods, hippys, rockers, clubbers, grungers, skaters, now we need the Care Bears to take over our society, down with lack luster fodder, and bring on the real stuff !!

Answer 29

Put simply Pete my friend... a computer and a very good dj... like me!

Answer 30

Islamic Fundamentalism by banning it.

Answer 31

I Reckon Jeff Young's Big Beat show could change the face of music !!! Can anyone answer where he is now??? Pete sent him on the Rock 'n Roll (Dole)