Quote:
|
End result is music is the least important and most transient art form. Only in the last 100 years has music had any permanency, but even then its quite fragile and I doubt in another 10000 years anyone will have a clue of the music of the twenty first century.
|
I do not believe you can extend this correlation into the future. The difference is that art has
always had a permanent/semi-permanent medium to transfer with. Canvas and other mediums used by "traditional" arts have always had a very easy time aging well, simply because the mediums themselves provided for it. Music has not (until recently) had quality mediums capable of aging well. Since it was a sound, you had to have a way of transferring it from a wave to a permanent state. Records were the first step in this progress, followed by CDs. DIGITAL Music IS the medium of the future. It is very portable, reproducable, and copyable. I have full confidence that in 1,000 years we'll still be able to hear music from this century.