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

Internet will still be the main source in term of its dissemination, especially through the development of global economy where internet is become cheaper and affordable
Economic growth will also change people lifestyle to coincide with the coolest culture, when you see MTV you will notice Indonesia, Philippines, etc are steadily loosing their culture identity and adapting with the modern (western) culture
The pros is mainstream will become more rich with people trying to create more unique sound, but the cons is music will not be appreciated by their creative values anymore but to the simulacrum of celebrities and there will be a war of cross imitation between people, originality will become meaningless

Answer 3

OK, we done it all, maybe a simple sound will get todays
youth back to the 60's music, non electric guitars and
good singers without sound effects !! maybe even further
back and reinvent the Harpsicord and we all actually
listen to music !! maybe not....maybe we all gonna have
reduced hearing...and so we cope !!

Answer 4

Go to a few free parties, see the energy of the people, the djs the dancers, less mainstream more underground

Answer 5

Make sure The Hoff never releases another song.
God.
please.
Those dancemoves have given me nightmares
*shudder*

Answer 6

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 7

The music has got digitall, as now we dont use a tape or a gramophone record. And now music is spreding its popularity everywhere and there are thousands of music poping up everyday shows their love towards music.but as you said, nothing stands still, and there is a lot of creativty in our tacnicians, this is hard to say that we have saw a big daced of music as we have a daced to come and my dear pet, you and we all in this earth dont know about the next secend and you asked about what will happen after ten year. what i mean to say is who knows if music lives or not? because if there are thousand's of music lovers, then there is also a huge categary who dont like music, and i personaly hate that categary as i am also a musician and music is my soul.

So my dear pet, dont take me wrong as i just wanted to say we cant predict anything.

Rigards
Saurabh Tripathi

Answer 8

The beauty of music is that you can listen to it and do other things at the same time (i.e. work, drive, read a book). Any major development in music needs to keep to this formula. I.e. even though interactivity would be a good idea (i.e. you can join in on an instrument with your favourite band) it can never totally replace music as it is at the moment. Therefore developments need to revolve around how we receive the music we listen to and the quality and scope of the instrumentation.
I think we will soon be able to have music beamed at us personally, whether this be in a club or a bar or at home. A small unit will be able to focus sound waves and keep them contained within a certain area. Therefore you can hear music on request but the person next to you can carry on listening to the TV or whatever without being interrupted (headphones leak sound).
Music wise we could have music that sounds different depending on who is listening to it. It is widely known that as we get older we lose the ability to hear certain frequencies. With this in mind a piece of music could be developed that changed with the listener as the listener matured.

Answer 9

Music is becoming more interactive with the advent of new technologies and companies such as www.splashplay.co.uk who are developing technologies that will make learning music a much simpler and rewarding process. Can't wait...

There are other serious implications that need addressing. Currently the MPA and DRMA are clamping down on music rights and websites such as guitar universe are being closed down due to allegid royalty infringement, even though the website makes no money direct from guitar tablature.

So the future of music firmly lies in the hands of the music mafioso - MPA et al. Once they have decided on the best way to manage digital downloading including bittorrent use then the sooner the world can move on in a more constructive and hopefully altruistic manner.

MONEY IS NOT THE BE ALL AND END ALL OF LIFE

Regards
Rob

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www.splahplay.co.uk - a great product that will revolutionise the way music is learnt
www.guitartabs.cc - used to be a great site that offered free guitar tablature, but alas the fat cats have got their mitts involved. Soon one shan't even be able to whistle along to a song without fear of having to pay some royalty fees. Grrrrrrh

Answer 10

1. Tell the industry moguls to employ someone with a brain cell, maybe 2 for what they think we like, stop preparing boy bands
with a gushy ribbon, if you feed a kid on sugar and spice you know what happens, they want to be a bad m...g rapper.
2. It is no longer about the latest ipod nanopod or peapod, bad music is bad on whatever it is played, good music is good because it touches something that is not of the 6 senses,
3.Make the rich n famous give back to the kids of tomorrow what they took, maybe buy them an instrument to learn. just think how much madonna , michael or eminem could give away before they have to sing for their supper.

Answer 11

Sacking rubbish DJ's who just play the latest 'payola' record

Answer 12

Getting back to real people, playing real instrument's,and singers being able to sing without electronic aids to assist them,by the way..Love dance music..

Answer 13

wireless radios that can aces music from the Internet

Answer 14

We are gradually moving toward a stage where all our media can be received via a single medium, internet television, mobile phones with build in mp3's and online connections etc. I think it's getting to the stage where the vast majority of music will probably be transmitted and downloaded via mobile phones, with CD's, much like VHS being pushed further out of date.

And mobile phones are quickly becoming nothing more than ear pieces themselves-so who knows how far the merging of technology and musical mediums are goin to go.

Answer 15

it should be the sort of music that makes listeners exercise to get fit or more fit.

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personal.

Answer 16

This is a good question........the heart need to be put back into the music industry, easier said than done now that the *moneymen* have their hands on it, it's sad to think that all the best stuff has already been done and then you hear something like the following link and remember that there are still some people out there slogging away at original stuff.
http://www.myspace.com/thehoodsmusic
have a listen.

Answer 17

If I knew the answer to this question I would not be sitting here I would be making millions of pounds.

Answer 18

all you can eat legal dloads from your isp for a fix amount over the month

nah .... silence lol

bangin tunes ..... mrs patterson ..... thankyou!

Source(s):

k& p go large

Answer 19

I think we will see large 3D and 4D billboards projecting video's anywhere from the train station to along the high street. I think that mobile phones will become an essential item and will take over from the ipods becoming "everything". I think music generally will take a backward step and we will see alot more 50's and 60's and digitally computer generated "Elvis's" - golden oldies brought to life! This will have a knock-on effect on boy bands and all singing girl bands. I think in the next decade "Musicals" will be coming back "Big Time"!!! But this time - they will be digitally computer generated in holographic images and anything goes!! It will be risque! I think Top of the Pops will return too.

Answer 20

the 3g of music technoligy
a device you can wirlesley connect to almost anything around you and share music, download music, create music and edit music simply and effectivly
a device that can instantly find what song your looking for
it stores songs from the radio and tv so when the eg: car advert ends and you think wow who was that band you can find out more about the artist and get their album

you can look back through tunes you heard on the eg: radio last week and re-play them
you can connect to other users and listen to what they are playing

that is when you know the future is here

Answer 21

Ive always thought it would be fantastic if you could get a piece of software on your PC that has electrodes attached to it.You place the electrodes to your temples.This picks up what music you can hear in your head and records it directly to your pc.Came up with this after hearing full songs in my head but no way to record it....would be cool huh....

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Far fetched mianderings after sleep depravation !! LOL

Answer 22

nice try pete! i`ll let you know when it has a patent on it! oh by the way your still the best dj around,even after all your years at the top! keep up the great work

Answer 23

I would say that interactive-psychoactive music will be next. You will be wired up to a monitor, and you will be able to select your required mood. The system will then play music nad binaural frequencies that influence the body and mind state, constantly changing to avoid boredom and keep you at your required state.

Answer 24

switch off the televisions. Commercial success is equal to a fantasticly over budgeted video. Let people decised on what they actually hear, not how cute this guy or girl is, or what they are or aren't wearing.
fact is video really did kill out many of the rising musical stars

Answer 25

spastic rock. a genre where spastics take control of musical instruments and recording studios.

Answer 26

It's got to be technology, because people will get fed up with more and more talentless "wanabee famous" no-hopers X-factoring their way into the swill bin of public consumption.

Something like, for example, spectacles that can deliver 3-D images of real musicians & artists playing their music, through speakers mounted within the specs' legs, delivered by bluetooth or similar, including real time internet downloads of live performances.

Source(s):

My fevered imagination

Answer 27

the removal of record companies so that independent artists rise and dominate such as Lilly Allen= only artists will collaborate and produce via the internet

Answer 28

Entirely nuisance free (to other people) music systems

Answer 29

Music very often goes in full circles, then movements occur and vanish. Im not sure there will be any particularly great ´new musical style appearing´, I wonder if there needs to be. What is required is simply great musicianship, there is plenty of new young talent out there, its a case of making sure that record labels invest wisely and look to the long term rather than a fast buck. I feel more positive about the british music scene now than I have done for more than a decade.

Answer 30

with micro, nano and wireless wi-fi broadband technology you'll be able to access your tunes anytime anywhere, just like having your own personal dj

Answer 31

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.