Originally Posted by E Swartz
creative youth will always want to learn instruments, sing, and record music.
steady-eddie

I don't think that they will so much Eddie, because they wont need to.

In architecture, there used to be an affiliated industry of people who did architectural renderings. Artists as such, who did likenesses of buildings using ancient techniques for constructing perspective views and then stylized water colors etc. Techniques going back to Da Vinci.

Now, I can mess with a virtual model for a couple of hours and come very close and ever closer to photo-realism. And produce videos with people walking about in them and birds flying overhead. It's my video game. Love doing it. Largely based on video game technology as I understand it.

MAB mentioned "beats." I sold a house years ago to a local DJ with a following. He couldn't play any instrument, but he made music all day long at a computer work station. I love the piano. Regret that I never learned to play it. But I am now composing songs on it for my tunes, using BIAB and EZKeys and midi editing techniques. Nothing sophisticated, but adequate and imo, convincing.

I don't know how long the stage performer model will exist. My hunch is that in the future, a single performer will perform from a stage in LA and be presented on multiple stages around the world as a convincing hologram or something. (metaverse). And people will pay to watch...if they have any money to pay with.

No one can know the future. We can only guess. But I suggest letting go of notions that it will resemble the present and past.

Opinions of a meandering mind.

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