Music in 2100?
 

What do you think music will sound like in 100 years?

Was thinking about this last night, and was picturing people playing instruments like, "machine guns with trombone-like slides at the end of the barrel" for percussion, and maybe some harps with lasers instead of strings.

I also thought maybe musicians would run out of genre's to twist together in order to stand out, so they'd have to think up other ways to sound different. Maybe they would be constantly speeding up and slowing down the song speeds while while the vocals stayed the same speed, and vice versa...or something.

Meanwhile, we'd all be sitting there as body-less heads (think Futurama) bitching about how our mp3 players sounded so much better than the "tune-chips" that they stick in the "song-sockets" in their head... which also show a holographic image of the bands video in front of their faces.

What do you guys think? What will it sound like and what instruments will they be playing? ><

I don't think music would change that much. Some instruments date back thousands of years like the drum or the shofar. Some date back hundreds of years like the Nyckelharpa. Some of the most coveted insrturments are Stradivarius violins, and there a few centuries old. With computers there might be a shift back to "just" tuning for equal-temperate or well-tempered instruments. Maybe Kraftwerk will be the "J.S. Bach" of the Twenty-Second Century. Maybe future generations will ban Atonal Music, who knows the sky is the limit.

True, true.

You're probably right in the end...it won't change a huge amount maybe. When I posted this I was kinda hoping that people would use their imaginations to think up bizarre things that might be possible in the future of music, even if it's not very likely.

I probably didn't make that clear enough though...I probably just sounded like I was really high. ><

^ Yeah like that :D

In 2100, a new style of popular music will emerge that involves forcing air through sheep colons. You can quote me on that.

Colon-Core? Sounds badass

Excellent choice of words. :laughing:

I guess the electric colon will be another great success, before the introduction of the distorted electric colon.

Two scenarios.

If the 2012 conspiracy theory is true:
All music will be wiped out. We listen to whatever albums have managed to survive the disaster, build our instruments from scratch, and start new musical movements based on these albums. This might be problematic if only deathcore survives, however.

If it isn't:
It continues roughly the way it's going today.

I honestly think that the future of music is going to get more and more electronic. But hey since I'm all into EDM, i'm not omplaining.

In a century from now, you won't hear much with your ears; it'll be transmitted directly into your brain!!