SkullFaceTattoo
(Worcester)
Saturday 21 Jan 2017, 3:22am
This got me thinking as is kind of interesting because everyone starts out wanting to "join a band" which is obviously the premise of this website but imagine if you could just bypass all the foolery, hassle, travel and stress of starting your own band or joining one which occurs here all the time - just do it yourself?
As someone like me had no friends at high school and no current friends - not even people i hang out with , ever, i think it looks like a viable option that skips on all the boring, long winded whiny messages that I've really grown tired of. I've grown tired of people and their opinions and can't control them with a remote like the same one for a TV i.e on, off, mute unmute etc .......
but why haven't we collectively seen a popular rise in the one man band considering the dawn of 8 and 9 string guitars negating a need for bassist, and then getting in a replacement for a drummer like using EZdrummer, Beatbuddy drum machine pedal and DAW software where you can play and record everything separately and dub it over to give you the final effect, why havn't bands like IamError/(early)secondhand serenade really taken off at all? surely you could do this with any genre, im not talking about solo artists, i mean someone who is the singer, the guitarist, the bassist, the drummer and perhaps keyboardist all in one? is it that having a full band is just "cool" ?! how awkward would it be going on tour with just you on the stage ..... does it have a stigma of being anti social?
I was also watching a YouTube video called Humans Need Not Apply and it was kind of scary. this brings me on to the subject of automation, we think music is this "creative" thing , but what if there was a machine which we could use that analysed millions of songs and music theory ie scales, arpeggios, time signatures etc to output something that utilized the different tonalities or "signature sounds" of your favorite band to create something totally unique because of the unlimited number of combinations
ie Metallica drums with Iron Maiden guitar and Guns N ROses vocals for example in different words using the english language as the base and playing with how they sung it based on all previous work, what would be the point in "becoming" a musician if a generator of some description could work day and night on pitch, tone, time perfect songs that sound exactly or even better than the real thing in what took a human years might take the generator a few seconds..... science fiction? or a need to worry for the future?