Lifting All Boats
I wouldn't want to bring back Classical music, simply for the fact that there's no possibility for real innovation there. If some of the ideas were theoretically innovative, it wouldn't necessarily sound that way. Innovation in music has historically been in electronics and the textural or timbral aspects, through Pop music. I have personally been more interested in rhythmic innovation, and the psychoacoustics of sound, and the uses of it as "signal" (data). Art materials are a technology for representation just as much as anything else. I don't think that will change and will certainly change further. Will we learn more about Renaissance painting by looking at macro shots of paint strokes through AR or VR, or through new kinds of documentary that extend those possibilities? David Bowie made the comment that he was more interested in the top-level system in which music is created rather than the "software" that runs on it. Using the metaphor ...
