Let’s face it; digital has reduced the frustration and complexity of recording music in the studio, listening to music at home and even rendered its live aspects.
Once, music was subject to innovative and environmental influence and it seems today sounds are easily replicated, seamlessly duplicated, and effortlessly produced with digital,
for better or worse. What do you think?
Digital music has its place; yet what we make ‘ of ‘ it is what is important; it, as a feature of technology. ‘ In ‘ itself there is nothing of digital that demonstrates an innate destructive purpose.
While technology facilitates ease of doing the things our hands touch, still is it a mere toy in comparison to creating sound dialogues first-hand, as that which happens between a musical instrument and the Muse, between one musician and another, and between a music ensemble and its listening audience.
Digital music enables to get on with the next phases of our creations without all the encumbrances and hitherto bureaucracy engaged with producing a first envisioned then imprinted expression of a chart, and rather it allows us to focus on pure creation and the more important thing: developing as human beings.
The chief divine charter of Music is that it enables us to rise in consciousness, to move us to higher states.
Moreover, human beings continue to prefer reading books over merely reading material via computer — and any way, reading books is much easier on eye physiology one eventually finds; this simply due to computer EMR, which wreaks havoc on eyesight and tires out the body over time, not to mention that the locus of the weakest muscles in the body are at the eyes.
Likewise, nothing can supplant a musician’s natural draw to pick up a horn or a pair of drum sticks or set-to on an acoustic piano or guitar — this is innate, both primordial and rational — for without access to and expression of this, a major part of inflow and outflow is obstructed. There is simply a natural need and appetite to express art, just as to socialize or to express love, or to have hunger or thirst. Such an ill fate as to constrain artistic expression like music and pit natural against digital music just would not happen unless of course societies become so despotic that to fulfill the natural need to express oneself subjects one to incarceration or death: and even that would self-destruct in time via coup d’etat. A mass consciousness of people can only take but so much crap, after which all would simply implode.
Otherwise, both digital and hands-on have their place; all is in the balance and feel.
Ultimately, digital would lose if we would pit one against the other, which prospect of occurring is a ludicrous possibility (though not an improbable prospect given human history).
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