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I'm still wating for music to react to recording technology in the way painting reacted to the photographic camera.
by bsedlm 4y ago
I'm still wating for music to react to recording technology in the way painting reacted to the photographic camera.
- beckingz 4y agoListen to some drum and bass.
- delusional 4y agoI'd argue that Hyperpop is a more direct response to the commercialization of music.
- meneseteung 4y agoI don't understand what you're saying here. Music has been in a dialogue with recording technology more or less since the beginning of recording technology.
- bsedlm 4y agofair enough. I can barely put it into words; but I'm still trying.
- ilammy 4y agoMusic can be performed. Or rather, performing music is way less boring for an observer than performing painting or sculpture. Of course, speedpainting exists, but performative art is more resistant to being obsoleted by technology.
- bsedlm 4y agoI'm starting from the viewpoint that the whole point of music is observing the performer do it. in contrast, the whole point of paiting or a sculping is the final completed artifact. What I'm trying to get at, is how recording technology "defeats" the purpose of music as its performace; and so, irremediably splits it from it's source (its origin, the composition of the music). I suppose improvisation remains; but highly constrained within prearranged structures (a la "AB[improvisatino goes HERE]C") like in jazz. I do not understand how hyperpop nor DnB are supposed to be a response to what I'm trying to get at (then again, I'm just now barely conveying my point... I hope.)