MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Yes a very nice song, Jung. However, also the only song besides Itchycoo Park that I know from The Smallfaces (I feel like David). Why is it, have they produced so few songs or did they never have a real Chance to stand out from the many well-known competitors? (This fate has been followed by some bands of the 60s, I’m thinking of The Byrds, The Pretty Things, The Animals. You know one or two songs of them. Or were they simply better known in the past than they are today? Unlike The Kinks or The Who).
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Will there be live performances as long as there is intelligent life in the universe?
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And yet another fantastic Marble machine:
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Hello Jacki, thank you for your reply. Then the current interim score in the topic is 4:0 for more human creativity in music and better not too much technology. Heart wins. 🙂
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Hello Johnnypee, I am looking forward to your answer. I just find it interesting to think about how music could develop. Artificial intelligence should not be a focus of the topic at all. It’s just one of many aspects (Okay, AI is redundant. I understood. Next topic). You are right: Today was yesterday’s future. But what comes next? I’m just interested in how other people see and assess the development of music. Especially here in the forum, where many music lovers or musicians are on the road, an exciting question for me.
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Hi Jung, thank you very much for the detailed answer and in summary I can only say: Yes, you are absolutely right. Point. 🙂
The choice of the topic was not so much about A.I., but really about the point of how music will change. And it will change, whether we like it or not. I don’t see the trend negatively at all and I’m happy about new innovations. New generations of music listeners are coming after us and they probably have completely different needs than we have. The right mix makes it. When the Beatles arrived with their guitars in 1962, many studios waved it off: “Thank you guys, but your music is dead”. When synthesizer-pop was increasingly produced in the 80s, it was called: “Soulless, emotionally cold music”. I love this kind of music a lot to this day. Then New Wave, Techno, House, Rap Music, etc. appeared. You don’t have to like everything, but it expresses the attitude to life of an entire generation. The Stones weren’t exactly popular with older generations at the time. “Sex and Drugs and Rock’n Roll”. Anything else?
For the future of music, I wish for a common creative coexistence of many different musical genres. If I feel like guitar rock: I listen to MLT. And if want to listen to Techno-Pop: Depeche Mode. I think it will be more and more difficult for future musicians to develop new trends, because there is already such a great variety of music. Sometimes I have the feeling that in this day and age it is almost impossible to develop something completely new. And that is precisely why the desire will remain with young musicians to try something new, something that may not have existed before and which gives this new generation of musicians their own identity. And I’m sure they’ll use new technologies and develop new trends. So it was with the Beatles, with the Stones, but also with music genres like New Wave, Punk, Heavy Metal. Whether you like it is another matter, but one thing music will always remain: a creative process in which the well-known but also the new merge.
The only thing that worries me is the fact how the marketing of the music will develop. And that’s why I’m glad to support Mona and Lisa in the path they have chosen. I think it’s very brave not to go the usual way through any casting show and sign dubious record contracts. In this way, many young, talented musicians are simply abused and quickly dropped. Therefore Mona & Lisa: please keep it up.
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Hello Thomas, thank you very much for your answer. I agree with you that A.I. will never replace human creativity or as you rightly wrote: “achieving that balance between order and chaos”. At this point in time, artificial intelligence can only repeat and join what already exists (and will probably never exceed this point). Maybe it will be a helpful tool to create for example film music. Or for people like me, who don’t know an instrument, it might be a nice help to get a little creative yourself. From the point of view of every musician certainly only a gimmick and yes, it robs the soul of music. Let’s wait and see what the future holds.
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Hi Jung, I was pretty sure you would like the musibox version of „While my guitar gently weeps“. „Für Elise” played by a music box certainly sounds enchanting. Music boxes have always fascinated me as well. You’re right, this awakens beautiful childhood memories. We used to have a wooden music box from Austria (you may remember „introduce yourself“: holiday on the farm, chairlift driving, “Wienerschnitzel mit Pommes”). On the lid of the musibox was the image of a high snowy mountain peak and when you opened the box, a beautiful melody sounded. I loved it. And then I have a music box that always hung over my own children’s bed. It had the shape of a birdhouse and when you pulled on a cord, a small bird started to seesaw (or to swing) and the children’s song “Kam ein Vogel geflogen” ( „A bird comes flying“ ) sounded. I still have this music box today and it also works.
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You’re right, of course, David. A universal language may also mean the loss of cultural and social identity. Yes, and the diversity on earth would be lost: literature, local knowledge, customs and traditions. This is the price you would have to pay for a society that is brought into line. And it’s true: I often find it very sad when for example large fast food or department store chains displace small local retailers and even the local architecture is displaced. Especially the local cuisine and the local peculiarities make up partly the charm of a country. I just have the hope that a common language helps to break down the barriers in the minds of some people. The fear of the foreign, the unknown, the differences of other cultures and the fear of strangers. Unfortunately, this is often enough the reason for discrimination and hatred. But that a universal language would prevent all this is probably just wishful thinking.
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Hi David, I’m sorry that I didn’t understand your question correctly. And my answer should not be any criticism of the influence of Anglo-American culture at all. On the contrary, I think it’s good when cultures open up and permit the influence of other countries or societies. I find the synthesis of different cultures in a globalized world completely normal and the fact that the language changes is part of it. That’s just the evolution of language. Actually, I wish that at some point we could find a universal language. I like to travel to Southeast Asia and I’m always completely fascinated that I can make myself understood there with my little English. And as a result, I experienced very beautiful moments, got to know fascinating places and wonderful people. Without a common language, these beautiful moments in my life would never have happened. And also the music, my music, would be so much poorer without an international influence. I just say “German folk music”. 🙂
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No they never do, David. German kids grew up with McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut. And like all other children in the world, they don’t ask special questions as long as there is only enough burger, pizza and coke there, except maybe, “Can I still have some more Coke?” There are so many brand names that come from the Anglo-American area, nobody really ever thinks about them here. For example, KFC or IBM. This is simply adopted as a brand name, or as a proper name. Nobody thinks about what the three letters stand for. (Have you ever thought about what “BMW” means or why the car manufacturer “Audi” is called Audi?) Many English terms are also simply adopted as independent, new words. These then replace word-related German terms. The language is in a constant flow and most people don’t even think about it. Especially young people in Germany are currently developing a strange mix of words. English terms are indiscriminately integrated into a German sentence. That’s supposed to sound cool, but it just sounds stupid. And to be honest, I’ve never thought about what the Pizza Hut logo is all about until you asked. There you can eat pizza the American way. Point. Is there any secret behind the Pizza Hut logo (do you mean the pun „hat“, „hut“) ?
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Jung, I know the eventful Asian history and didn’t want to get too close to you with the song. Sorry if I have hurt any feelings of you. I didn’t know that your mother was so close to disaster. I am very sorry about that. It worries me very much that there are always thoughtless scientists who develop such weapons and scroupless military who really use them.
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Hi Jacki, I didn’t know exactly what “STOMP” was. Googled it once. Yes, the troupe is very original. The stage performances remind me a little bit of the “Blue Man Group”. Then you should actually also like Depeche Mode. Sometimes they loved to hit and hammer on things until music came out.
