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symbioidljA friend and I were discussing 3D audio last night. How we believe that 3D audio is what will really make ambient music come to the fore. True 3D that utterly surrounds you. There are technologies that allow for a close 3D rendering of audio on stereo headphones(they're called binaural 3D), however they still don't allow for much of a front ranging sound to be rendered. There is definitely an intimacy with it that you don't get in normal stereo, but it's still lacking in range of spatial depth.
When will there be another Beatles? When there is another George Martin. Certainly, George did some good things, and he did some bad things(everyone knows you don't fully pan to one side), but they were learning and experimenting. I don't know how much stereo was used before then, but I think that George really was the first to push the boundaries of where music could be used in stereo.
Just as Sir Martin used stereo effectively, so will his successor use 3D effectively. Of course, that's not to say that the Beatles couldn't stand on their own without good ol' George. No, the Beatles were good either way...
What I'm saying is that it took Stereo to really bring the next leap in music recording and true 3D audio is what will be the next harbinger of change. The music itself is already here, and there are a lot of us that love it(ambient, idm, etc...) We just need the technology to push it into it's proper sphere of influence.
3D audio is just one technology that will bring forth the next phase of musical evolution. Photonics is also a part of that revolution. With photonics we will have very rich deeply textured sound that simply can't be created with todays limited synthesis techniques. Quantum interference will be utilized with light-waves so create very unique dissonance that sounds artificial and natural at the same time, because at the root level, chaos is both, and chaos is the future of sound. Worlds will be created in audio-space more than they have ever been before. Fractal algorithms and wave forms will form bonds with each other in a cybernetic feedback loop. The resulting patterns of dissonance will then create more spatial levels. Just as a rest in traditional music creates a sense of time and space, so will dissonance and resonance work together to create a similar space. This will be a much finer detailed dissonance, however. And that is where the difference is. It isn't just a dissonance of sound, but dissonance in space and time. What happens when you have two sounds overlap in 3D space? We will have to think about these things before the technology gets here if we are to fully utilize it to it's fullest.
The very nature of light and crystals and fractals allow for quantum fluctuations even more so than electronics. With electronics we have tried to eliminate as much noise as possible from the circuit. With photonics we will not try to eliminate the noise but instead work to channel it towards more productive purposes.
We've already been able to slow light down to a few miles an hour, and we've theoretically sped it up past it's traditional speed limit. What happens when we introduce these features into photonic musical instruments? We'll have to wait to find out. I'm curious.
Rock and Roll is dead. It can change it's shape and form only so much, but it's inevitable that it will slowly evolve into something completely different. We have those crappy "nu-metal" groups already incorporating electronic elements into their music. Powerman 5000 is one example I can think of. But they are still constrained by the verse-chorus-verse structure of modern pop music. As is pretty much everything on the radio. I think that Radiohead is the first (rock) band to show what the future holds. Smashing Pumpkins tried, but I feel that they, too, were constrained by the limits of rock's musical formula. I respect them for trying. And yes, I think Kid A is a wonderful album, and Radiohead is probably the greatest Rock band out there today. I mean, this is only their 4th album, and look at how much they've changed. Radiohead, I think, is probably the closest thing we have to the Beatles today. Note, however, that Radiohead are not originators of this music. As a lot of you know, Aphex Twin and Autechre and other IDM artists were on this track a LOOONNNGGGG time ago. But I respect Radiohead for really bringing this to a mass market. I fear the day Britney or some other pop-shit incorporates IDM elements into their music. I COULD however see Richard D. James incorporate Britney-pop into his music. Heh, there's an idea. Have Britney make an album with Richard D. James. OOOOHHHHH!!!! If anyone could make Britney cool, it would be him. Heh heh. How evil and wicked, and yet, how I delight in such perversions.
OK, I'm sorry this is so long. But...
This is what I'm thinking. My blogger site The Voices Just Won't Quit!!! is going to be about my day to day life and stuff. I might make another blogger about my memories of life, a sort of biographical history. I like that concept. And my LiveJournal is going to be like little essays that I'll post from time to time on various topics. Who needs a web page when I can have web-logs?!?!
PLUR,
Sym
When will there be another Beatles? When there is another George Martin. Certainly, George did some good things, and he did some bad things(everyone knows you don't fully pan to one side), but they were learning and experimenting. I don't know how much stereo was used before then, but I think that George really was the first to push the boundaries of where music could be used in stereo.
Just as Sir Martin used stereo effectively, so will his successor use 3D effectively. Of course, that's not to say that the Beatles couldn't stand on their own without good ol' George. No, the Beatles were good either way...
What I'm saying is that it took Stereo to really bring the next leap in music recording and true 3D audio is what will be the next harbinger of change. The music itself is already here, and there are a lot of us that love it(ambient, idm, etc...) We just need the technology to push it into it's proper sphere of influence.
3D audio is just one technology that will bring forth the next phase of musical evolution. Photonics is also a part of that revolution. With photonics we will have very rich deeply textured sound that simply can't be created with todays limited synthesis techniques. Quantum interference will be utilized with light-waves so create very unique dissonance that sounds artificial and natural at the same time, because at the root level, chaos is both, and chaos is the future of sound. Worlds will be created in audio-space more than they have ever been before. Fractal algorithms and wave forms will form bonds with each other in a cybernetic feedback loop. The resulting patterns of dissonance will then create more spatial levels. Just as a rest in traditional music creates a sense of time and space, so will dissonance and resonance work together to create a similar space. This will be a much finer detailed dissonance, however. And that is where the difference is. It isn't just a dissonance of sound, but dissonance in space and time. What happens when you have two sounds overlap in 3D space? We will have to think about these things before the technology gets here if we are to fully utilize it to it's fullest.
The very nature of light and crystals and fractals allow for quantum fluctuations even more so than electronics. With electronics we have tried to eliminate as much noise as possible from the circuit. With photonics we will not try to eliminate the noise but instead work to channel it towards more productive purposes.
We've already been able to slow light down to a few miles an hour, and we've theoretically sped it up past it's traditional speed limit. What happens when we introduce these features into photonic musical instruments? We'll have to wait to find out. I'm curious.
Rock and Roll is dead. It can change it's shape and form only so much, but it's inevitable that it will slowly evolve into something completely different. We have those crappy "nu-metal" groups already incorporating electronic elements into their music. Powerman 5000 is one example I can think of. But they are still constrained by the verse-chorus-verse structure of modern pop music. As is pretty much everything on the radio. I think that Radiohead is the first (rock) band to show what the future holds. Smashing Pumpkins tried, but I feel that they, too, were constrained by the limits of rock's musical formula. I respect them for trying. And yes, I think Kid A is a wonderful album, and Radiohead is probably the greatest Rock band out there today. I mean, this is only their 4th album, and look at how much they've changed. Radiohead, I think, is probably the closest thing we have to the Beatles today. Note, however, that Radiohead are not originators of this music. As a lot of you know, Aphex Twin and Autechre and other IDM artists were on this track a LOOONNNGGGG time ago. But I respect Radiohead for really bringing this to a mass market. I fear the day Britney or some other pop-shit incorporates IDM elements into their music. I COULD however see Richard D. James incorporate Britney-pop into his music. Heh, there's an idea. Have Britney make an album with Richard D. James. OOOOHHHHH!!!! If anyone could make Britney cool, it would be him. Heh heh. How evil and wicked, and yet, how I delight in such perversions.
OK, I'm sorry this is so long. But...
This is what I'm thinking. My blogger site The Voices Just Won't Quit!!! is going to be about my day to day life and stuff. I might make another blogger about my memories of life, a sort of biographical history. I like that concept. And my LiveJournal is going to be like little essays that I'll post from time to time on various topics. Who needs a web page when I can have web-logs?!?!
PLUR,
Sym
