This continuous evolution of music has been bubbling ever since humans learned how to create auditory art, but it's been moving light speed just like everything else, since the ability to record sound was discovered in the late 19th century. I see a combination of the two main branches of popular music, classical (more straight forward, pre-created, hard...) and jazz (more impromptu, soft)*Obviously, there are more differences than just these, but I feel as if they are parallels in terms of music*, occurring through rock music, with metal being a direct extension of classical, and then into this strange, new super-genre of dance music, as well as hip-hop. It was like the song was always built on a certain 4/4 template, a basic drum track that seems like the foundation for a create-your-own song program. The magic in this format is that it's continuing today and branching into something wild and revolutionary! We've encountered Delton's prophesized (or maybe witnessed) age of individual creativity, especially through electronic music.
Words and music are inevitably strictly translation. You can never translate an emotion or thought as purely as the mind alone can, for we can exhuberate anything within a dream, but to channel it is to cut corners, for the experience becomes partially inauthentic in its nature. It's impossible to truly translate between languages, as each dialect interprets spoken work in a different light. It takes a unique and individualized skill to switch between languages easily, and a special gift to fluidly translate out loud for other people. I'd call it being a link between poetic tools. This is why we regard superb artists with so much respect at their abilities, for they are translators of the divine and they sculpt the flow. Imagine a sculptor, cutting away into emptiness to form his piece. Everything already exists, for mind and creativity is existence itself. It just takes the special artist to dig it out of the void. The coolest part is that anyone can be a poet, an artist, by learning how to maneuver whatever makes them happy, learning how to configure the flow through life and compassion.
That 4/4 back beat is the tip of the iceberg that brings together most electronic music, and it allows a certain style to be configured in our heads, with the ease of simply switching from track to track, like CDs. Not just everybody can access this self-mastery of music creation, but it's available for the world to mess around with, and lots of music making software is around from Garage Band on Apple computers to Ableton Live, a popular program for music creation and real-time production. I've seen friends of mine, some with not as much musical experience pick up a program and develop their own sound within months. It's pretty rad hearing the translations of the unique minds of young musicians, and with practice comes growth! If I find things that I like I tell people about it, so I can help talented artists gain popularity, and it's awesome to help promote your friends! Here are some beautiful sounds, created by good friends of mine from high school:
(((shwex)))Ω Mumukshu Ω
Codemeist
(((ॐPatchFooTॐ)))
Tree͒Bone
Aaron J Levin
Profesher
That 4/4 back beat is the tip of the iceberg that brings together most electronic music, and it allows a certain style to be configured in our heads, with the ease of simply switching from track to track, like CDs. Not just everybody can access this self-mastery of music creation, but it's available for the world to mess around with, and lots of music making software is around from Garage Band on Apple computers to Ableton Live, a popular program for music creation and real-time production. I've seen friends of mine, some with not as much musical experience pick up a program and develop their own sound within months. It's pretty rad hearing the translations of the unique minds of young musicians, and with practice comes growth! If I find things that I like I tell people about it, so I can help talented artists gain popularity, and it's awesome to help promote your friends! Here are some beautiful sounds, created by good friends of mine from high school:
(((shwex)))Ω Mumukshu Ω
Codemeist
(((ॐPatchFooTॐ)))
Tree͒Bone
Aaron J Levin
Profesher
The history of music has alternated between being independently minded to working through collaboration, and often a combination of both. The bard is an archetype, with singer-songwriters throughout history. Conductors are the puppeteers behind classical music, big band jazz, and also visible in certain bandleaders, but the contemporary playing the same role is most definitely the DJ. He or she guides the flow like a wizard, with each individual song controlled and modulated by the work of the fingers acting as an extension of the mind. We've already it in certain artists, but I think the future of music is in collaboration, and therefore an exponentially quick paradigm change in culture, with parents in both of the two genres previously mentioned, classical and jazz. EOTO revolutionizes this, a band consisting of the two drummers from jazz-bluegrass jam band, The String Cheese Incident, based out of Colorado. Michael Travis and Jason Hann create improvised electronic music on the spot, traveling within their own style of infinity with Travis on on various keys and instruments and Hann on a drum set, both of them linked in real time through individual computers using Ableton Live. The best part is that they tour essentially every night! I highly recommend attending one, if not more of their shows, as just being there allows you to help participate and mold the experience. The crowd controls their shows, communicating with the two on stage as they channel the music and speak back to the crowd in dirty bass and funky rhythms. Their ability as a group has been constantly evolving too, and they're easily able to access whatever genres of electronic, and music in general, that they seek out, ranging from dubstep, to down-tempo, to jazz, to bluegrass. The limit is there imagination, and I don't think you can ever really hold that back! As they travel from venue to venue, they seem to represent the magic of each place through flow, and from experience, I can tell you that a show in Minnesota is going to be different from a show in Colorado, which is different from a show in Washington. I've got dozens of their shows on my iPod, and they'll play anything from straight jazz to this 3-day festival that they played in Hawaii! Festivals galore, a whole 'nother story in themselves (See my post 'Portland Ride Share')!
Dave Tipper seems to do just the opposite of EOTO live extravaganza. Rather than produce the sounds through live improvisation, he creates the sound using real instruments and messing with waves, to construct the perfect sounds, and then he'll mix on stage using him pre-recorded material, at least, not until he's released a killer album! Tipper doesn't tour nearly as much as EOTO, as he's generally in the never ending of his own musical laboratory. His sounds are naturalistic, and they're so crisp they could fit in your pocket!
Tipper
I like EOTO's idea, and they throw an unbelievable party, yet they know as well as anybody else that they are still searching for the perfect balance between live and digital, to create the ultimate improvised experience. DJ tracks, like Tipper, have no limitation in their spacial quality besides the artists themselves, as the sound is all coming from one place. To see a DJ live is like seeing someone playing with a musical box on stage, the ones where you crank the handle and the music comes out. As odd of a concept it is, the DJ controls the crowd as if he's playing with a marionette. Everybody has a different experience as we all have separate perspectives, but maybe the future of collaboration and music will allow each viewer to form the show and sounds in a way where they can channel their imagination at the same time, and even with, the artist. Whatever it is, I think that electronic music and all of the artists behind it deserve respect in the same manner that any visionary, poet, and creator does. It's an auditory painting, but it doesn't have to be limited to just that! Painters will sometimes accompany the musician on stage to draw their own expression of the music, and there are even shows that are designed to be visual experiences as well (like light and laser shows). The Zebbler Encanti Experience is an audio/visual duo, whose work appeals to more that just one of the senses. Zebbler, who also does the visuals for EOTO's tours, works with producer Encanti to make some pretty fat tracks.
Zebbler Encanti Experience
It's cool to be a witness to musical evolution in progress, and to see the ties that contemporary rhythm & funk has to worldly music of the past millennia. We'll all see how it progresses, at least within our own lifetimes, but to participate and create is to partake in a revolution. There are not limits to creation, so I believe that any art form has access to reconstructing and interpreting music in its own way. The revolution will not be televised, so cut out the middle man that is your consciousness and sense of doubt, and upgrade your grey matter through imagination, creativity, and the balance of universal collaboration!
I have more to add to this/edit when I have some time.
Tipper
I like EOTO's idea, and they throw an unbelievable party, yet they know as well as anybody else that they are still searching for the perfect balance between live and digital, to create the ultimate improvised experience. DJ tracks, like Tipper, have no limitation in their spacial quality besides the artists themselves, as the sound is all coming from one place. To see a DJ live is like seeing someone playing with a musical box on stage, the ones where you crank the handle and the music comes out. As odd of a concept it is, the DJ controls the crowd as if he's playing with a marionette. Everybody has a different experience as we all have separate perspectives, but maybe the future of collaboration and music will allow each viewer to form the show and sounds in a way where they can channel their imagination at the same time, and even with, the artist. Whatever it is, I think that electronic music and all of the artists behind it deserve respect in the same manner that any visionary, poet, and creator does. It's an auditory painting, but it doesn't have to be limited to just that! Painters will sometimes accompany the musician on stage to draw their own expression of the music, and there are even shows that are designed to be visual experiences as well (like light and laser shows). The Zebbler Encanti Experience is an audio/visual duo, whose work appeals to more that just one of the senses. Zebbler, who also does the visuals for EOTO's tours, works with producer Encanti to make some pretty fat tracks.
Zebbler Encanti Experience
It's cool to be a witness to musical evolution in progress, and to see the ties that contemporary rhythm & funk has to worldly music of the past millennia. We'll all see how it progresses, at least within our own lifetimes, but to participate and create is to partake in a revolution. There are not limits to creation, so I believe that any art form has access to reconstructing and interpreting music in its own way. The revolution will not be televised, so cut out the middle man that is your consciousness and sense of doubt, and upgrade your grey matter through imagination, creativity, and the balance of universal collaboration!
I have more to add to this/edit when I have some time.
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