June 20ths
6/20/2004 Technology frees us from the physical, tactile senses, such that it is no longer necessary to play a musical instrument to make music. It also frees us from having to remember things, as they are relegated to stored data rather than encoded memory in the brain. Software will obviate our natural abilities and will devolve from the species. [6/20/2025: AI will certainly do this. 16-year-olds aren’t buying instruments because the fascination isn’t there. AI is the new rock ‘n’ roll]. 6/20/2014 Big data and music haven’t hooked up yet but they’ve been checking each other out. David Cope saw this coming in 1980. If music is essentially a binary phenomenon, then it can be treated like all other binary data. Just as an image can be condensed into 128 pixels and still be identifiable, perhaps it can work the same for music. It might be possible to break musical syntax into small chunks and reassemble them so that they sort of sound like the original. It’s like the p...
