The Future of Prog looking forward, Grim?

Neapolitan · 01-05-2016, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Tributary Records

Not here to argue. This thread is about the future of progressive rock. Electronica once created on real time instruments like Tangerine Dream did in the 70's. Today, it is digital sound collaging is it not? Why is that offensive?

I remember in school cutting out magazine pages and making collages on poster board. There was some briefly interesting stuff. I don't see that stuff going into art museums often.

Can one of the pro electronica posters here put up a video of some of this great electronica stuff that is so wonderful?

One of the first artist I remember talking about music in terms of being a "collage" was Bryan Ferry. His idea came from Art school as well.

People use to communicate by writing letters on loose leaf paper, now they use a computer, they use to order from catalogs, now they order online. They use to use a landline telephone now they use a cellphone/smartphone that can do a hundred things no one a generation ago would dream a phone could do. Even though copy/paste electronica played on launchpads doesn't appeal to me, I see it as part of the evolution of how things work.

While Skrillex uses a software (FM8) for his bass wobbles, (& I see your point "digital sound collaging" isn't that great) there a bunch of other (real) musicians out there that use vintage hardware synthesizers, like Sean McBride and other Minimal Electronic artists, just like Tangerine Dream did. And if there is any point to this it's that if Cold Wave could be forgotten and have a resurgence in interest decades later, and artist strive to be pure to the original form, I don't see why Prog can't.

Momentform - She's Into Clubs - by didital artist, Ianis Lallemand, based in Paris, released on W.T. Records which was founded by William Thomas Burnett.