Brian Eno Explains the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music | Open Culture
http://www.openculture.com/2016/07/brian-eno-explains-the-loss-of-humanity-in-modern-music.html
Even fully electronic music may not be skill-based, but it is still a composition.
Good hardcore dubstep can be translated surprisingly well into a symphonic orchestra and sound just as good.
Skrillex did exactly that, at least once. His songs were played by an orchestra and it was put on one of his albums. Bangarang was the album, I think. Can’t remember ottomh.
It’s no less musical. And it’s no less human. It’s just different tools that enable more people to express themselves musically.
Especially in a nation where the educational system is continually scrapping music and art programs to pay for football stadiums the size of the Rhode Island, I think the last thing we need is to gate-keep musical production to “only people who happen to have access to training and a good instrument.“
@voltronic
Yknow.
People said the same thing about Metallica.
And Ozzy.
And Rolling Stone.
And Def Leppard.
And The Beatles.
(I tried to make that chronological but I am not a music historian, bite me)
Someone has bitched and will bitch about young people’s tech, music, culture, etc throughout all of time and space.
Just because someone uses computers to polish music or to even to completely synthesize it doesn’t make it less human... ->