The ultimate question is where will music be in the future? As todays society is vastly growing with new advances in technology its hard to depict where music is headed in the future.
MUSIC IN THE FUTURE- Pamela Azzi
The ultimate question is where will music be in the future? As today’s society is vastly growing with new advances in technology it’s hard to depict where music is headed in the future. From the past to the present it’s substantial to say that we have already come a long way since Gregorian chants and church modes. However it seems as though technology has in other word become the ‘figured bass’ that structures most 21st century compositions.
The concept of music technology is intertwined with the concept of being both musically and technologically creative. As people are always constantly striving to find ways to derive new forms of expression through music, they therefore mechanically create new devices to enable them to do so. For example such genres of music such as House, Electronic and Dance are all derived purely on the fundamental grounds of mechanical software. Without technology there wouldn’t be the invention of the Keyboard or the Electric Guitar (which is used as a core instrument for ‘Heavy Metal’ and ‘Rock’ genres. Therefore technology is creating new expressions for music that will continue to expand in the future by the exploration and strive for creating new genres of music, therefore as long as people are interested in the expansion of music it will continue to grow in the future.
A positive feature of technology is that it has built a new foundation for a way to express music universally and making music available for everyone to use and share ideas globally. Compared to the 1980’s where making a record consisted of going into a 24 track studio and spending around $20 000, and even then you weren’t really guaranteed acknowledgement. However nowadays, people can make backing tracks at home where it doesn’t have to cost them any money at all. Such as simply purchasing a desktop such as an ‘Apple’ Laptop which already has a build in ‘Garage Band’ which is a system that can enable the usage of creating tunes and backing tracks to songs, which enables people to create records. An example of the use of Garage Band is shown in the Grammy Award winner T-Pain’s song Bartender. Luckily in today’s society it has become vastly available to sell your records instantly through companies such as CDBaby and iTunes stores, therefore saving money by not having to use a record studio. [1]
