Future of Music

Well, your parents might call something noise. Your children will call it Therapy.

From peaceful Beethoven music to electronic Dub-step. . Wow.. what a world we live in!

Music exists from as long as mankind does. It is older than agriculture, been longer than the wheel, discovered much before fire was and anthropologists say that it has been a cultural universal. Meaning that you can find it in any culture at any given point of time. But unfortunately, the taste of music is not the same. You might wonder how your parents enjoy with their vinyl collection, or how a bunch of ravers enjoy a genre called Hardstyle. Also now with access to online streaming audio accessibility and cloud storage facilities, music collection has become easier than ever. Music transcends from time to time. So, how would the music sound in Future?

New instruments are the birthplace of music revolution. Consider for example an electric guitar invented back in the 1930’s. Just imagine what the music for around 60-80 years after that would have sounded without its presence. Now, you can even find robot Guitars which can tune themselves.

Some recent discoveries in instruments would be silent drum, a drum with lasers used to change the pitch of the sound while playing, or a rubber keyed piano, which can bend its pitch perfectly. Some music composers take this digital mandate to a whole new level. One significant example would be Brian House, with his Quotidian record. he has managed to make music by tracking location data, i.e. making actual music based on the artists actual location. This could be augmented to any kind of data, take for example your home’s energy consumption data. This transcends music into a human itself.

Some other major changes predicted  in music sharing would be the end of MP3 era. ‘Lala’ has developed an application that will allow users to stream their entire music libraries on mobile phones directly in uncompressed wave files with data compression only in the data transmission.The company’s co-founder says it will replace MP3 s as the preferred format for digital music. Also Lala is already providing drastically lower pricing for music and more tunes for the people at the same time.

Search companies are listening users’ complaints that finding music on-line is a chore. Recently, Google debuted a much-hyped new search function that allows users to play and purchase audio files directly from a search results page, thanks to partnerships with several burgeoning music services .

The creation and production of music is also undergoing a revolution. uPlaya, a Web site launched earlier this summer uses an algorithm to determine the “hit potential” of any audio file a user uploads. By mathematically comparing a song’s features to past hits across multiple genres, the company claims to be able to predict its viability, allowing artists to adjust their new music to appeal to the widest possible audience.

So,in a précis, the advancements in technology are helping listening and producing music than ever before, we certainly have a great future in music.

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