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!!

I remember when I was pretty little, watching a movie on TV with my dad. Have no idea what the name of it was, but it basically took place in the near future, and by that time society had decided that they wanted everyone to be average and mediocre in all walks of life instead of actually excelling at anything.
In the movie getting a C on a test was complimented and getting an A was scolded, and also the music was just all incredibly boring generic sounding pop...and that's all there was, you couldn't get anything else. Was horrifying. :yikes:

In the end the main character is a super-genius and manages to turn society around almost single-handedly. One of the scenes I remember most is when he manages to take over a TV station and play a really soulful jazz video with an amazing sounding sax on it. The camera shows people around the world watching this and their jaws just dropping. Was really epic. :D

god I wish I could remember the name of that movie. I'd really like to see it again now ><

I saw a movie kinda similar to that but it took place in the 18th Century - it was called Amadeus.

@Dieselboy: It was called Harrison Bergeron, I think.

Yep, looks like thats it! thank you :)

Im sure they used to think that before he key-tar was invented.

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In 2100 everyone will sing like Lene Lovich

and women will wear makeup and have hair like Terry Bozzio

and men will dress like Devo wearing 4 teir red flowerpot hats

and robots will take over the Instrumental Rock genre

and what happens to Music beyond 2100? In The Year 2525, futuristic spaceage music will be replaced by folk music - who would of thunk it?

Well, judging by the general trend one observes:
100 years from now music studios will feature a single microphone, and a toilet. Popular artists will have refined their ability to make excellent specimens of shit and the sound of them making said shit will be recorded and polished by the studio engineers, and sold all over the world.

The kids at home will practice in their bathrooms to achieve such a monumental and emotional sounding defecation, and these will be the future generation of the sound. A sound once referred to by the younger, hope-filled generations as: The shit.

All music will be the digitally processed sounds of unicorns fellating the cryogenically preserved penises of Elvis and Michael Jackson. I'm willing to put money on this one.

omg this is awesome ><

Lotta good replies on here really.