Friday, May 8, 2009

the future

"We're really slow at making music," de Rosnay said. "On the album, [†], we maybe sampled 400 records."..."I know why stories are conflicting," de Rosnay said. "Because we do sample really small bits of things that nobody can recognize"..."De Rosnay then sat down at his MacBook, reminiscent of the way, say, Josh Groban sits down at a piano. He pressed "play" and then "stop" quickly enough to release a millisecond of sound from a song that's destined to remain a mystery to everyone but him.  "Just like that!" he said triumphantly. Repeat ad infinitum for most of the duo's songs. "That's why it takes so long to do."

--I think this is the future of music, or maybe art in general.  Is there "nothing new under the sun"?  Is there a finite amount of ideas?  One of the guys I work with at my church jokingly says about youth group games: "originality is just forgetting where you got it from" - but with the internet and global communication getting so much better and more efficient, no one else will let us forget where we got it from.  On twitter, John Mayer tweeted something like, "writing music is harder than you'd think, i wish there could be a copyright reset every 50 years."

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