Music in a 100 years

[Onkel Dunkel]

Originally Posted by DIGITAL SCREAMS

I think about this from time to time. Sometimes I gain insight when I listen to Vagelis's BladeRunner soundtrack......some of the tunes sound very futuristic and 1930's all at the same time. Pure genious. That soundtrack never dates or gets stale.....in my mind its the best representation of where music might be in 100 yrs time

I cannot see people still using synths and making the same elctronic muic to the same rules. I think one day....someone will invent a new standard....new scales....new chords.....ones which may sound strange but become acceptble to use. Its an interesting fact that chords and their progressions only sound 'pleasing' to us because its so ingrained in our brains to hear those harmonics. It is quite possible to use strange combinations of chords...and then over time for them to seem as normal as C majors.

What do you think....

DS

If this is true then i wonder why the chord system havent changes through the last 2-300 years. I belive that we find a basic chord sound nice because of psysic laws. The frequensies match together in a way that our ears like because the frequensies "sing" together. I think we will still make 98% of our music in 4/4 with basic major and minor chords. The thing that will change is the sound. We will mix music catagories so that new will be made. There will be 100% acustic trance and they will scratch their way through clasical music. Everything will be as it is today just mashed up and mixed together in all thinkable (and unthinkable) ways. And we will mix it and play it in surround...

Edit: oh yeah, and the new "Virus Brainwave" will be out. Think of a sound and there you go. No more tweaking