The Future Struggle

Music expresses struggle,
the future will be,
cultures will come to be one.

Lights, Camera...techno ?

http://youtu.be/Yd3hzYAJzOo
The video above shows that already music is becoming something else. Is it possible that the path of music is just being beats and digital? When I saw the video for the first time, I didn't really miss any lyrics to it. I was focus on the lights and the sound. Lights and sound. That is it. The signals for music are becoming more complex that no ordinary person can physically play it on any instruments. People need computer to produce these signals. Light also has an interesting role to play in the future of music. The video seems as though the lights are the lyrics.

Space the Final Frontier

I am stepping out of my boundaries here. I try to stay away from mainstream music, but I saw this and wasn't really focus on the artists or the lyrics at first. I was more concern about space and music. At some point musicians will do so many songs about so many subjects, that I wonder if there will there be anymore ideas to write about? Maybe space will be the next thing to actually focus on. What does space mean to music? Is there really songs about space itself? It is one of the biggest organism in this reality. Yes it breathes, it thinks, it can destroy and create, why not focus on something like it? It almost seems that space is God.

The didg is back

I think more towards the future will become to merge old world and present world to make the future world. The didgeridoo is an ancient instruments that people are going to reinvent into more broad stream music. I understand that they are instruments throughout history up in till today. The instruments that I think will become more popularized into music are ones that people never see today.

Music and Future

What will music be like in 20 years or more? I wonder to myself about it. When I am 40 at the time it is going to be interesting to look back at the music I had once listen too. Music in the future, in my personal opinion, will be more intellectual. The lyrics will have more meaning to people than what mainstream artist do today. I think they will bring old school values back into the world. Many more artists will actually play instruments and sing. Anyone today can sing with the technology we have today, but how many of them can also play an instrument. I don't think music will be futuristic tones and beats, but I could be wrong. I believe sometime soon the music industry, artist, musicians, beatboxers, etc. will hit a crucial point that will effect the future of music. At that point they will internalize many issues and bring the true music that they want to give out to the world

Music in the Future!

If I had to guess what music is going to sound like in the future, I would say it's going to sound like today's music, but just an upper beat tempo. Listening to the music today, I found out at a young age, that it's the same music from the past, but with a higher or lower tempo. I also think the music in the future is going to be more dance and not a lot of soul because that is what's out now. So, all in all, music don't change, only the artist does.

Parents Just Don't Understand

Willow Smith-Whip My Hair

Old Skool vs. New Skool

It's amazing how musical genes can pass down to offspring. Let's take Run DMC and his son Diggy. He is following in his father's footsteps and making a name for himself. We also have Will Smith and both his youngest kids, Jaden and Willow, following in his footsteps. Although Jaden raps, he mostly take after his parents in the box office. Willow, on the other hand, is taking the music world by storm. Even though she is only 10 years old, she is signed to a record label and has 2 music videos under her belt. So, my question is, who is better, the father's or their offspring?

The Future Sound of Music

Despite the rapid evolution of music media in the past 30 years, from vinyl to MP3s, the industry is acutely aware that the way we listen to music has hardly changed allowing little interactivity.  While albums and singles remain the mainstay of the music industry, technologists, innovators and composers are coming up with new tools to help modern listeners engage with the songs they love. One of these is MXP4, a program that allows people to mix their favourite tracks in virtually any way they like. You can add drums, take away backing music, or mash two songs together. The user interface is very simple and built for people with no DJing experience.The music of about 70 artists, including Michael Jackson, has been licensed to the platform. The tool can be found on the websites of the participating record labels, who are looking for innovative ways to compete with the huge volume of free music available online – often illegally. The team behind MPX4 say it offers new ways to rejuvenate artists’ back catalogues, potentially creating new revenue streams for musicians and labels.

The MPX4 tool homepage: http://www.mxp4.com/

My Music is in the Clouds

Amazon this week became the first big internet company to offer something called "cloud music." To the unfamiliar, that term may seem off-putting, like a new soft-rock genre that leans heavily on harp solos. But it's possible many of us will be using cloud music systems in the not-far-off future. Cloud music is simply a term for storing and your music on devices on the Internet and allowing you to access that music from any computer or music device that you have access to. Today, most digital music options, like Apple's iTunes system, force users to store their music on their own hard drives. Some audiophiles amass music collections that take up tens or hundreds of gigabytes of storage space, which slows their computers down. If that drive crashes, the music could be gone. Plus, this music is stuck in one place. You can sync iTunes music, to keep that example going, with Apple's portable devices. But you have to connect your iPhone or iPod to the computer in order to do so. You can't access that music easily from other computers; and it's difficult to store it on multiple devices. In the future music lovers could put all of their music files in the cloud and then access them from anywhere. Being able to access your music from anywhere on almost any device could be a utopia for music lovers. We will have to see what the music industry does in reaction to Amazon's announcement...

The Future of Music

Writing and discussing the future of music is basically a exercise in pure frustration because what you are dealing with, in essence is the future of Art. We may be able to predict where technology is going, such as what rockets, robots, or computerized hats or shoes may look like, but Art, is a much tougher field to predict. Will the music of the future just be an extension of the music of today? Will it be technology based played on computerized electronic instruments lite up with neon? Or will it be like the bar in Star Wars? What do you think the music of the future will sound and look like?

Artist and Fan Interaction

Trent Reznor, the man behind the band Nine Inch Nails, has done so much to allow his fans to interact with his music. He's become a true leader in showing that if the artist engages his fans the can still earn millions while making fans happy, rather than turning them into the enemy. Reznor has always reached out to his fans, and has an amazingly comprehensive website, with forums, chat rooms and many other ways of interacting. He encourages fans to better connect with each other as well. While companies like Warner Music forced all the music videos of their artists off YouTube, Reznor actually aggregates all the videos his fans take at concerts. he encourages them to bring cameras on one page on his own website. He does the same for photos. He released a free iPhone app that allowed fans to locate each other, and communicate with each other, while sharing photos and videos as well. It's all about connecting with those fans, and helping them better connect with each other. This model has allowed him and Nine Inch Nails to stay relevant and profitable in the new millennium of digital music.

Nine Inch Nails website: http://www.nin.com/

Future of the Music Industry

It's no secret that there's a lot of concern these days about what the music industry will look like going forward, especially from those who work on the label side of the business and have been around for a bit. A variety of things have caused rapid change in the market. Competition from other forms of entertainment, such as the internet, movies and video games, have put more pressure on the industry, as consumers have been presented with significantly more options for their entertainment attention and dollars. And, of course, there's the ever-present specter of unauthorized file sharing, or, as the industry prefers to call it accurately or not, "piracy." Plus the true meaning of all music going digital has put a strain on the business of the industry. Gone are the days when kids would hang out at the record store and buy a whole album or CD. With digital download sites such as iTunes and Napster people are just downloading the one song they want from the album and not purchasing the entire album. As people purchase less artists are making less. This is a disturbing trend for new music, why put it out if you won't be rewarded for it?