Consider auditory imagery in terms of visual imagery.
There will be stylistic sonic repetition as long as it is tolerable, that is to say, as long as an audience exists for nostalgia, the veneration of things past their time.
These sounds may be regarded as fashionable forms, and the attitudes they represent will be repeated as patterns filling various contexts engraved in the popular imagination as musical genres.
From this perspective, of course, there is no comprehensible future-- such impossibly distant sounds can only be envisioned and created outside cultural and commercial norms.
There will be stylistic sonic repetition as long as it is tolerable, that is to say, as long as an audience exists for nostalgia, the veneration of things past their time.
These sounds may be regarded as fashionable forms, and the attitudes they represent will be repeated as patterns filling various contexts engraved in the popular imagination as musical genres.
From this perspective, of course, there is no comprehensible future-- such impossibly distant sounds can only be envisioned and created outside cultural and commercial norms.
