Is technology ruining music?
By foofermen
@foofermen (500)
October 8, 2010 10:33pm CST
I have heard the argument before and it has many points behind it. Synthesizers and auto-tuning dehumanizing and taking the soul from music; mixing programs and other audio manipulating software that can recreate even the most intense musical effort with just a few clicks of the mouse, taking any skill needed to play music out of the picture; and piracy robbing artists of what they sometimes deserve very much. Is this all ruining music though, making it more accessible to the masses? Can programming become considered a musical instrument? I will let you decide.
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@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
9 Oct 10
Technology has a way of perfecting music. Thus we hear pop tunes everyday and we love it. But there will never be one like the original. I just watched a piano competition for young artists this afternoon. The performances were hair raising. No technology could ever duplicate the music of real artists.
@foofermen (500)
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11 Oct 10
There is a distinct passion behind music preformed when the person is so involved in the creation. Maybe "ruining music" is a little strong, maybe the best way to describe what technology does to music is dehumanizing.
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@Blueeyes33 (14)
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12 Oct 10
All the technology seperates the artist from the music, it seems to me. there is no heart in music these days.
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