Has Music Lost It's Soul?
August 6th 2007 14:40
I recently overheard a conversation, I think between two talking heads, about whether or not music has become soul-less. The gist of the position that it has lost soul is that there is much less 'supply and demand' motivation to create the music that will take the world by storm. No longer, goes this mantra, will bands such as the Beatles or Rolling Stones emerge with the next, best thing ever. Rather, anybody, nearly anywhere, can create a digitally produced musical piece and submit it to numerous venues for possible indidvidual download from whomever it is that takes a fancy to said tune. And the big, successful artists are also able to submit individual pieces for download rather than put together an entire ensemble (otherwise known as an album).
The next element of the soul-less argument is the availability of creating digital pieces with next to no talent what-so-ever. All one need do is obtain the software (garageband, music studio, etc...), gain acess to innumerable 'loops' of sound, and weave together a work of "art".
Is that art? I suppose that is the question, art presumably being an expression of soul.
I don't think that music has lost soul. I think that whatever it is that stirs a musician or a digital tactician to create music is fully caught up in soul. I like that.
No, I love that!
deorre
The next element of the soul-less argument is the availability of creating digital pieces with next to no talent what-so-ever. All one need do is obtain the software (garageband, music studio, etc...), gain acess to innumerable 'loops' of sound, and weave together a work of "art".
Is that art? I suppose that is the question, art presumably being an expression of soul.
I don't think that music has lost soul. I think that whatever it is that stirs a musician or a digital tactician to create music is fully caught up in soul. I like that.
No, I love that!
deorre
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