I wonder what music will sound like in the future, and I don't mean in the near future, but the distant, several hundred and thousand year future. I've thought that the quality in artists, at least in the mainstream, has diminished considerably in the past several years, but my query isn't with the quality in the music, but the style of listening and appreciation. I mean, we had decade long musical styles come and go (Funk, Disco, Rock&Roll, etc) with the most recent one being Pop and the growing fascination with EDM. It seems that our transition from one fascination to another is rather quick, starting from the 50s onward; almost every decade had a dedicated style, but how many more can there be?
Will we see a resurgence in certain styles? Will we see new, unthought of ideas? I think it'll be interesting to see how music develops. Also, I find it interesting the similarities between all these styles: they all have some sort of bass, a lead sound, and drums (of course there are exceptions). Will that instrumentation style change? I think humans are capable of appreciating sound without those instruments or a lack of one or another instrument, but it will be odd to imagine a sense of music without a hard hitting bass, a distinct movement in the music, or something that ties it to the last 60 years of music evolution.
Maybe in a few centuries we will be experiencing music in a different way, who knows, but one thing is almost certain: something is bound to change and it'll be quite a sight to experience.
Listening to: Led Zeppelin, "Dazed and Confused"
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