Is music "unlimited"? I know this might be a weird question but, what would happen if we produce too much music that we start repeating the same sounds and structure? I dunno if you get what I'm trying to say but I hope you answer me
Is music "unlimited"? I know this might be a weird question but...
John Watson
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Liam Evans
It has already happened. Almost every pop song follows the same chord progression and drum beat. There are multiple videos on youtube about it.
Jordan Walker
That's "trying to engineer a hit". OP is asking whether it's possible that humanity will run out of original directions to take music.
Charles Bailey
Matt, bro, we love you but you need to cut out the weed. It isn't doing you any favours.
Jaxson Jenkins
I think we're just about there. When was the last time you heard a piece of music that was genuinely breaking new ground?
Matthew Martin
No. One can arbitrarily invent structures and processes for generating new timbres, melodies, rhythms, harmonies but that isn't how most people like to compose or what most people like to listen to.
In practice most music does tread very similar ground to what came before it but that shouldn't concern you. If you wanna spend time trying to expand your horizons you'll always be able to find new ground to cover and well trodden ground can still be enjoyable too.
So just listen to whatever and enjoy it.
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Ethan Reed
Music does have near-infinite combinatorial potential, and we do know that what is considered pleasing to the ear is to a rather large extent cultural and conditioned. The only really common denominator in various musical cultures is that it is syntactic, with the sole exception of various developments in post-war western art music.
Parker Lewis
Sorry, it is also to an extent phonetic, as the selected tuning, frequency range harmonic and melodic structures often approximate that of speech, compare cantonese music to any indo-european folk tradition or for that matter even English and American popular music.
Isaiah Allen
You could make music that breaks new ground right now but the thing is groundbreaking wont always be good