is it time to engage?

2011-11-02



Music is by and large static. Every time you play a song, it sounds exactly the same. There have been attempts in the past to get the listener more involved in the musical performance. Remember the emergence of multimedia and CD-ROMS in the 1990s?

I have to say, I could not get into the whole interactive music thing. Perhaps I was just being lazy. Or perhaps it was because I was listening and interacting with the music in a very conscious manner and this took away the enjoyment of, well, listening.

So, what if a piece of music evolved and changed according to your everyday, natural, less conscious actions or responded to information from the visual and auditory environment? I do think with the ploriferation of technology we are finally getting to a point where these ideas can be explored and distributed beyond the art installation at a museum.

One comment

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of music?
Music in its essence, and forget what the purists say, is attached to a particular emotion. We "like" certain music because we like the emotion it conjures up inside us. Its music that must change the person, not the person that changes the music.

That is the beauty of music. I don't want to be here. I want to be there!

by Danny on November 2, 2011 8:27 PM. #

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