Evolution of Skill
The shift from music being defined by classical or traditional approaches began to change in the 1950s (and perhaps a bit earlier), which introduced the possibilities of sound synthesis through electronics, which now has evolved into computers, the internet and AI. How we value music ultimately determines its evolution and what we view as a venerable “skill”. 8/11/2016 [8/11/2024: All new technologies create new skills that are “in-demand” but eventually hollows out the foundations. I can’t imagine anyone would want to learn how to read and write music notation in 2024. That will always be able to be generated–something that first became possible with MIDI in the early 1980s. If you look at the music magazines from that period and put them on a word frequency diagram you’d see it start in 1982 and see it hockey-stick up, then gradually drop off in 2000, when sampling and remixing were new. You didn’t necessarily need MIDI. and you certainly didn’t need music notation. In 2024 the...
