3 predictions for the future of music | Michael Spitzer

[@shantanu.t]

The future of music will be a reflection of society and its people. I hope we take a step back and remind ourselves… less can be more - quality over quantity.

[@gumpyoldbugger6944]

If so, then the future looks rather bleak.

[@GizzyDillespee]

I've been to the future... I was shocked. But for those who can get past the "this has to be an elaborate prank" feelings... adding a rectal component to the headphones experience really adds to the wow factor! It makes subwoofers seem weak. Apparently, they were invented in 2028, and at first it was difficult to find "backers", in both senses of the word... but wouldn't you know it, pretty much everyone on titkok and twatch just HAD to make a video right away... and everyone was so suprised that it wasn't a scam, for once, that it became an overnight success. Suddenly, everyone was backing it. So, the future of music is in the rear view mirror, in a way. Now, my personal suspicion is that it's 2024... by now, somebody's OBVIOUSLY put a waterproof speaker up their butt by now. And if it was worth it, we'd have heard about it. But, you know, there are many steps between that stage and achieving a viable consumer product. In the meantime, people are welcome to conduct their own experiments... TBH, this was probably invented already by 1968 and now available on temu, which apparently suffers a drop-shippers revolt in 2027. The future looks bright!

[@092bwe]

What what in the butt

[@supersonicsoda3]

Dumb idea.

[@CBGBBB]

The future of music is Big Booty House Anthems

[@julesoul]

Louder plz

[@KialSubPressure]

😅🤣😅

[@objectiveperspective777]

That's been done to death already... 🙄 Bring on the big Titty Bounce music!

[@devonjupiterlogic12]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@poobpizza5590]

Helllll ya brother!

[@IOSARBX]

Big Think, Subscribed because your videos are so much fun!

[@SaaSLTDDeals]

Wow, such a thought-provoking insight into the future of music! The integration with technology and potential for new experiences is truly mind-blowing.

[@josereyna8885]

As a musician, I appreciate the optimistic outlook!

[@iammrhsnlyv]

You can't be a good whatever job with optimism

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

When you can already type prompt to an AI and generate whole songs of any genre in seconds that is indistinguishable from human music... And that technology in just ONE more year is going to get sooooooo much better!! In the same way that at this point, the best human chess player has no chance at beating the best chess AI EVER again... How can you be optimistic? And what are you optimistic about?

[@kliberalsing]

Beyoncé is no match for Beethoven, considering the wealth of masterpieces he composed and how often after his death in 1827 they were perfomed/taught/practised/recorded

[@AmazePaulz]

Agreed. I mean.. Go park your lexus, this is texas.. Its just pap

[@osamaqtaitat]

Played

[@karenpowers2225]

Beethoven is a Survivor FAR LONGER than Beyoncé! 😂🎼🎵🎶

[@stevecagle2317]

Don't forget, Beethoven was going deaf. He never heard the 9th symphony except for feeling the vibrations and "hearing" the music in his mind. Legend says one of the musicians had to turn him toward the audience to see the standing ovation

[@stephenpatton8690]

You weren't listening to what this man said. Why are you so stupid?

[@sheilahsay]

I have to agree with you. That music will become more instrumental.

[@rob.parsnips]

Respectfully, I think not even mentioning AI is at the very least a blind spot here, and maybe a kind of pathological denial. Human artists will need to contend with AI that can analyze a user’s taste and generate perfectly tailored songs for them. The biggest issue with this, I think, is knowing that humans had no part in the making of that song. Knowing that there’s no emotion in the voices - in fact, there are no voices at all, really. Part of music is feeling connected to other people having your own experiences validated by artists describing similar experiences. Even in instrumental music, the whole phenomenon of “playing with feeling” will be absent in AI music. Absent, that is, if we presume AI won’t have feelings. But even if they do, we probably won’t gain much from the expression of them, because we don’t want to connect to incorporeal informational entities. Even still, the efficiency and specificity of AI music production is too powerful not to factor in somehow. Music production is already often very behind-the-scenes, and many people are indifferent to its nature. Think of pop songs that are produced by one set of people and performed by another. We associate those songs with their performers, not their producers. Many people just won’t care if AI produces the song and then some Kpop band sings it. It’ll be interesting to watch for the radically human backlash to this, the purely undigital music that emerges. I don’t know what to think of it all. But I know AI is too big to ignore, in music and in everything else.

[@TymeTellar]

As we watch human painted art and photography disappear as well

[@guacamole7496]

Great comment. A lot of people are sleeping on this, including musicians.

[@americanpop]

Great comment, and it does make me think. You mentioned that humans don’t enjoy AI music because it doesn’t emotionally connect with them, but if we didn’t know it was made with AI, would it really matter at all? If we weren’t able to detect a song made by AI, and the listener emotionally connected with it without knowing it was made by AI, would it matter at all?

[@NahedElrayes]

That's literally a third of what he's talking about, under "technology". He just didn't use the word "AI"

[@jensenraylight8011]

Why don't you delete all of your Songs, and also never touch spotify again, and only listen to AI Corporate Music. the only people who hyping AI is the one that had zero skill in that Domain, therefore they're detached from the "How things work" like there are already AI Art out there, but everytime some KZbinr use AI in their Videos, their Traffic Completely Tanked, because their videos became like a generic Tiktok AI Motivation video AI gave Creators a Negative Association of Lazy, Cash Grab, Swindler, Impostor. people actually prefer something that made with thoughtfulness and intention, Human is great in detecting an Impostor, therefore if you're trying to Trick people and elevate yourself using AI, people will notice it right away, and they will mark you in their list as someone to avoid.

[@eyespy3001]

These takes are at least 30 years old… Like, the future of music is that technology will allow people to make music at home? _That_ is the future of music?? This has been around since the first synthesizer hit the market.

[@Gutz-po9xf]

synthesizer is an instrument like any other, nothing to be what you said, but I ask you, have you seen the suno v3 that is available today? The future will be people typing some words on the keyboard with no musical knowledge or inspiration, just by typing words, the future will be boring, take a look at Suno to see if I'm talking nonsense

[@eyespy3001]

@@Gutz-po9xf Sure. Whatever. If that is the future of music, why was that not talked about??? Like I said, nothing about what was talked about in this video is the future of music. It’s been the state of music for forty years now.

[@Gutz-po9xf]

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[@Fl4ppers]

People have been able to make music at home since the 1960s. OK there werent DAWs back then, but they had tape recorders, guitars, voice, folk instruments etc

[@eyespy3001]

@@Fl4ppers Sure. And this proves my point even further that this democratization of music isn’t “the future” of music.

[@DukeofEarl]

I have those headphones!! Bought them over 25 years ago. Brings back memories...

[@stefan_popp]

Brilliant move to not have the usual background music during the interview or in the transitions.

[@zsoltpeterbencze6408]

I love how there hasn’t been background music throughout the video

[@xSYKO818x]

Thanks for sharing. ❤

[@HeathHolme]

Music to my ears 💙

[@JesseKanner]

FWIW: the invention of "thousands of genres" is really a 20th cent phenomena. Prior to that there was folk music, which was largely similar (within a given cohort) and art/sacred music which also followed very strict style guidelines. We're seeing a great stylistic collapse right now where oddball or especially divergent styles are falling away. While it is true that things might swing back to more idiosyncratic expressions, there's no reason per se to assume it. From what I've learned, the psychosocial / evolutionary emergence of music stemmed from the need to bind a group of people together - specifically during work periods (farming, child care, hunting, war). This includes religious ceremony, which I consider to be just another form of work. Nowadays we use other technologies to act as a binding agent. We get our emotional needs met through movies, TV, video games, and internet videos. Our overall attachment to music is fading en masse.

[@architecture.w]

This reminds me of boring lectures at university. I have trouble believing that this guy has any new insights.

[@lamentistriangle281]

Dynamic range, courageous music making and arrangement decisions, longer and more established tracks...

[@EdwardOlive]

Wonderful job explaining sir.

[@GarethThomasTunes]

Thanks for articulating my enthusiasm for music and technology🌈👍

[@iainmackenzieUK]

We consume what we are being fed. It takes awareness and determination to reach out for what we want.

[@jaynismusic]

love this!

[@MicahScottPnD]

Excellent stuff, BT!❤

[@ari3lofficial]

Thank you for sharing. Best wishes Michael Spitzer!

[@pearpenguin]

Music had more value to me when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's. I would save money up to be able to afford the albums or singles I wanted. There had to be at least two songs I had heard on the radio/TV or at a school dance before in order for me to buy it. It was exhilarating to buy a new album and listen to it from beginning to end while pouring over the liner notes. Then you would discover you liked other songs and sometimes a whole album. I could read an article in a magazine about an artist and hear about their influences and buy those. You would take care of the album and begrudgingly let a sibling borrow it. Perhaps some people still do this since albums are readily available again. But for me new music I love is harder to find and more time consuming so I often just let Apple show me the way. It's lazy and I don't get as excited by even the new stuff I like. I certainly haven't worked for it. I get into weeks of playing older music because it's so easy and comforting. Just speaking like an old man right now.. Some of the newest hits and top songs these days feel very throwaway. They are developed for the greatest consumption possible. I also believe that out there incredible music is being made but it doesn't have the reach it could have had in the past. I just need to work harder and spend more time searching for it.

[@felipevaldes7679]

TLDW: There is no danger of music becoming homogenized despite its ubiquity, because artists are driven to be distinctive and music expresses human identity across proliferating genres. Some predictions for the future of music: Music will become more functional/therapeutic, potentially even "prescribed" for conditions like depression. Greater integration of music with technology, allowing normal people to create and share music easily. Technology extending human musical capacity, just as instruments have throughout history. Humans will still shape the music created with technology. Music may expand beyond just sound to incorporate other senses like taste, color, physical frequencies outside our current hearing range. Overall, the future holds unimaginable possibilities for how music will evolve, just as today's music would be inconceivable to composers from centuries ago. Despite tranformative changes, music's core purpose of expressing human identity across diverse genres will continue driving its perpetual evolution and vibrancy.

[@nunyabiznez666]

Psychedelic trance for the world ❤ You wanna talk about synesthesia and frequency and whatnot..........listen to psytrance ❤

[@lenkazajic8509]

Abso-freaking-lutely. It powers most of my day every day. Add a little THC and then you're off to entirely different dimensions altogether...

[@arttoegemann]

Thoughtful

[@LaPlant_Mastering]

I was hoping he'd tell us if Spatial Audio will ever become a thing, or is it just a scam

[@shura8865]

I don't understand this passage 3:34 How can we “taste” a sound and “see” it?

[@АртемЧепрасов-х6е]

You turn on Justin Bieber and start smelling some shit

[@antonyarulprakash3435]

In future music won't be given and it will be taken ❤

[@erdemulubas]

He has some points for sure but one big subject is skipped; How will a musician make a living in this environment? It’s near impossible to make a living with music. So, yea normal people will create normal sounds with AI and in time music will be a mediocre, overdone thing.

[@Lu-Farias]

I hope the future music have a long duration a not just a few seconds.

[@jacobkain4721]

BEEP BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP BOOP Everyone: omfg that was so beautiful

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

What does Beyoncé do that Mozart or Beethoven or Bach couldn't??? The guy in the video has it backwards or something? What is he talking about?

[@pcaridad]

The uniformization of music happens many years ago, when the broadcasters choose to pass the music that pays more, instead of the best music, the more original, the more educative... There is no profit on the original and distinctive music. We are living in a kind of pop dictatorship, since the "successful" music always win over originality. This guy is way too much optimistic.

[@purringraven3648]

1:39 Rhythm Doctor?

[@Frogma985]

we stan the koss porta pros

[@rustynails68]

People will make great music, however, nobody will have access to it because business.

[@GroovismOrg]

Groovism is the future of music!! The One Groove will unite all of humanity! Along with the changes in society, no hierarchy is a major component of our success. Entrainment of the Earth is our purpose & reason for Being One of ten billion. Being an instinct, music, globally empowered will proliferate & evolve us !!!

[@SolaceEasy]

If you can't do, teach. Emotionless.

[@sluglife9785]

I want my Whatsapp friend group to become a band. Make it happen, geniuses.

[@janklaas6885]

📍3:58 2📍 2:12

[@KaiseruSoze]

It was more like $11 billion. Not 5.

[@malafakka8530]

I don't think that this was very insighful apart from 1 or 2 thoughts.

[@andreasmoyseos5980]

The music industry is about to become unrecognisable with the arrival of AI, and this video lives in the 90s.

[@davidanalyst671]

Every rock band in 2004 - 2024 is unrecognizeable. Go listen to old pearl jam and listen to anything from the last 20 years.

[@manero4792]

My prediction is that we'll never have any new "garbage punk" - This is those low quality recording punk songs wich you can't understand how many guitars are there, the bass and bass drum are the same, the hi-hat just feedback into distortion, and the singer sounds like he never had a day off drinking in his life.

[@stephenbailey8476]

ROCK N ROLL IS HERE TO STAY !! PRAISE THE LORD , AMEN !!!!

[@userMB1]

I am much more pessimistic about the future of music and art in general thanks to AI. AI makes art futile. Instruments are tools but AI is not a tool. At least not in the traditional sense of the word. AI is creating art itself. You type in a prompt, you get exactly what you want. Even if you don't like the result, you don't even need to change anything yourself. You just ask to make it funkier, slower, more bass or whatever. You might like or even love the outcome but you have to be pretty delusional if you say you're an artists for writing some prompts. Art is intrinsically tied to the artist. Without the artists, no appreciation or fandom. Would there be Swifties if Taylor Swift was not a real person but an AI program that composed the music and wrote the lyrics that made her the icon she is? Of course not. Extend this to all other art forms like literature, paintings etc. and it become obvious we are in danger o the end of the arts as we know it.

[@supersonicsoda3]

Relax. The real ones are always going to appreciate art generated by humans.

[@Asturev]

im in the art industry as the creative director on a marketing company and it looks like a pit with no end. book covers, concept art, branding, logos and every art department of my company have almost dissapeared. Clients are not valorating art anymore and either they prompt w/e they wanted and end up with a terrible AI Slop for work or they hold on to the art budget untill AI gets there. Even Our photography department has recieved a hit with companies willing to pay less and a chain restaurant that decided to wait untill they can prompt food photos of their menu items. videography is also starting to go into the obsolete area with iphone ai and generative videos.

[@Boysoundtechniques]

Ask teenagers or kiddos

[@benceze]

DAWs will use more GPU power.

[@madmusicianmagician]

My music is completely different than what you'll hear on the lame stream radio

[@SUSHIG0LD]

yeat

[@anthonymcnamee6297]

AI music is allready here. Sounds old like the 50,s hard too tell the difference 😢

[@sumosprojects]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘✅

[@pb6481]

The songs you can generate by AI now, are still based on existing music used in it's training. Maybe at some point we can train AI to learn why people like music, and generate new songs that are optimized for that experience

[@pb6481]

@@TheDimitrios no, I’ve only seen some parts of them. Did they predict this?

[@PixelSwitch7]

You had me until you said that AI generated music was just another tool, that it was not to be feared or demonized but embraced. We're already seeing the dangerous effect AI visual art is having on the world. It's robbing real people of jobs and accelerating the output of visual media that outpaces our rate of consumption. What reason is there to produce visual art or music faster than we already do? If you think that these tools were created FOR artists, for purely artistic reasons, you're an absolute fool. These tools were created by those who hold contempt for creativity and wish to harness that power which has long eluded them for the acquisition of power and capital. There is no other reason. Of all the processes that humans undertake, the creation of art is perhaps the ONLY one that should not be automated. You want a prediction for the future? There will be an inevitable divorce between art as "content" or entertainment, and art as art. AI will dominate and proliferate the entertainment industry for those seeking cheap, hollow satisfaction, and true human expression will branch off on its own.

[@Asturev]

ive been so depressed ever since this AI shit has started. im slowly losing my job. clients dont need art anymore

[@DyslexicWorkersUntie]

Why no mention of AI? seems like a massive hole in this presentation. As this will most likely will remove ,as his theory states, human input or imagination to produce music.

[@groob33]

This guy doesn't have a clue about the future of music. Clearly doesn't know what's happening right now in the AI space.

[@clsanchez77]

Music today is like walking into a Baskin Robbins and telling them to take a scoop of every flavor of ice cream and mix them all together. Yes there are thousands of genres, sub-genres, niches, etc…but they all overlap. Music needs a massive reset. Commercialization has killed the creativity of it.

[@theblazedbro]

A.I

[@marvymillz]

🤔…..

[@АнастасияБ-н3ъ]

💖🙏🏻🤷‍♀️🔆✊🏻☯️☮️✝️

[@NewLife-qj9mx]

The age of great musicians has past - now youth go gaga over the likes of Justin Bieber 🙄 Future "music" will just be Ai techno-sounds (which my 6yo grandson can do)

[@ignmorales]

Reggaetón isn’t compatible with expansion of our senses.

[@timmy-wj2hc]

Why?

[@robertskolimowski7049]

Really? Nothing interesting/insightful from a music professor, 4 minutes wasted🙄

[@Fl4ppers]

In the future musicians will be poorer and will love it. They'll also love all the AI generated music thats already starting to appear in ads and soundtrack placement.

[@Supernal-Clarity]

I can’t believe this video was dumb enough that it’s actually going to make me unsubscribe from this channel…

[@gumpyoldbugger6944]

The future of music? More mindless pablum created by semi-talentless hacks who rely on technology being pushed on the mindless masses of non-critical thinking drones/consumers. Take rap.....at best it is piss poor poetry set to a monotous repetitive beat, at worse pure plagerism. But the saddest thing is, it was created by my generation over 40 years ago and today's so-called "artistes" are still pumping out the same old shit because they suffer from a complete and utter lack of creativity or orginality. And the same holds true for all genre's of music. There are exceptions out there, but they are few and fair between and rarely if ever get promoted.

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

".at best it is piss poor poetry " how to be dismissed in 3 seconds

[@gumpyoldbugger6944]

@@transsexual_computer_faery as all (c)rap should be

[@Earcandy4u]

YESSSS!!!!!!