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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

The Future of Musicians, Music & Technology: The Sweetest Sounds?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9112 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: “Music is the shorthand of emotion” (Leo Tolstoy). “Hell is full of musical amateurs” (George Bernard Shaw). “The only truth is music” (Jack Kerouac). The Buzz 2: In 1930, Albert Einstein met with Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore in Caputh, Germany, to discuss the nature of music… Einstein served as the vice president of the Princeton Symphony from 1952 until he died in 1955… During a 1929 Saturday Evening Post interview, Einstein said that, had he not been a scientist, he would have been a musician. (www.cbc.ca) The Buzz 3: “New technology in music has changed the way we listen to music and the ways we create music…from synthesizers to DAWs …from CD players to iPhones….” (interestingengineering.com) The Buzz 4: “The future of music in the digital age is focused on how streaming services will differentiate themselves from the competition, how artists will reach their fanbase, and revisiting popular music industry trends of the past with innovations, such as the modern record player.” (victrola.com/blogs) We’ll ask Serge Hoffmann, Nelson Malleus, Matt Champion and Eric Zorgniotti for their take on The Future of Musicians, Music and Technology: The Sweetest Sounds?!

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0:00.0

Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, really here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?

0:16.5

Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.

0:27.6

Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.

0:31.1

Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.

0:34.9

Bonnie D. Graham.

0:36.5

Bonnie D. in the house, happy to be here. Well, if I got a show for you

0:39.9

today, it's time for music. We're not going to play it. We're going to talk about it. What is the

0:44.0

future of music, musicians, and technology? Where is it going? What are we going to be listening to?

0:49.3

How will we be listening to it? And most important, who will be creating our music before i introduce my

0:55.0

four esteemed panelists from all over the world when you hear who we've got and i'm the only one

0:59.6

with an east coast u.s accent today and that'll give you a clue i have a couple of buzz quotes

1:04.8

to open the show number one a quote from leo tolstoy music is the shorthand of emotion guess just nod if that do you agree with that the shorthand of emotion. Guess just nod if that, do you agree with that?

1:12.9

The shorthand of emotion? I think so I get emotional when I hear music. Another quote from George

1:17.0

Bernard Shaw, hell is full of musical amateurs. I don't think we want to go there. Serge, you got

1:23.9

that. And then Jack Kerouac, the only truth is music. That's one set of quotes.

1:29.0

Here's the bus. Did you all know that in 1930, Albert Einstein met with Bengali polymath

1:36.1

Robin Darath Tagore in Kaputh, Germany to discuss the nature of music? Did you know that Einstein

1:42.9

was the vice president of the Princeton Symphony from

1:46.1

1952 until he died three years later in 55?

1:49.4

And Einstein was quoted, this is true, in a Saturday evening post interview in 1929,

1:54.3

is saying if he hadn't been a scientist, he would have been a musician.

1:57.6

Can you imagine if Einstein had been a musician?

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