~ Some people believe that by 2001 rock will be entirely machine-made. Machines will be programmed so that conbinations of different sounds will be left to chance. At home listeners will have controls that will make it possible for them to "produce" a record -- speed it up, slow it down, make it louder and softer, and separate tracks, adding, subtracting, overdubbing -- to create their own version of a hit. There will be no live performances, no stages. Music will be heard with a small circle of firends, not with a group of strangers. The sound will probably be closest to The United States of America, an electronic-rock group. So many groups of the sixties have gone after a future-rock sound, however (the Byrds in their explorations of jets and space: The Jefferson Airplane in their explorations of the mind), that 2001 may very well bring a reaction against these "prophetic" sounds and move into something quite different, perhaps more along the lines of Oriental music. Already the sitar, which was regarded as boring by musically uneducated westerners, has been taken up -- and discarded. Thousands of fads are sure to come and go before 2001. There will probably be no more records, just tapes sold in compilations that can be mixed and mingled. And there will be Sunday producers (like Sunday painters) playing along with sound on their home sets. Then it will be possible to have the Byrds and Beatles singing together with the New York Philharmonic. Or Aretha Franklin and Donovan and the New Lost City Ramblers. The sort of thing that has been happening informally in jam sessions, and more formally on the SUPER SESSION albums, the mixing of performers who don't usually play together, will be taken for granted in tape.~
Excerpted verbatim from "The Encylopedia of Rock" 1969 edition, copyright Lillian Roxon
I thougth this was very interesting the first time I read it, had to share. Sounds to me very much like this person was predicting the birth of electronica, the DJ, and house parties back in 1969, just didn't know exactly what to call it! I think I'm going to load some Aretha Franklin and Donovan into the sampler now!
this prediction was also made in the 1950s by raymond scott.
who with many other things built this device
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ulyY&feature=relatedWow, very cool...
