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FREQ ISO

Music's future is bleak and interesting for human artist as far as popular styles. Think ai can't duplicate all styles? Your style? The interesting side imagin bille holiday doing I did it my way napalm death doing Mozart. Dean martin doing beatles.Glen Miller doing return to forever. Tom jones with GNR. Thats amazing stuff. Etc........... The basic styles for money = pop rap county. Become all ai . major labels don't wanna pay you as a artist to use your image or your music. They will ai farm there own artist. Musically and visually! that way it is 100% in house and no cost to them. Same way with movie studios.why would they pay you when they can ai farm a actor? NI still sells stuff in the future with human design till they use ai to make it all. NI employees take heed! Ni leads the charge to save human music? Hell no!

laszlozoltan

imperfection. uncontrolled imperfection, the "mistakes" that odd, harsh and ill-fitting will become treasured and prized for their unique quality and originality. they'll inspire new ways to move and zing to. that a trained musician would find difficult to venture into, but true artists will emerge from demonstrating an understanding and mastery of sounds and rhythms which somehow makes perfect sense.

when you hear it, you will know

Steve Nathan

"tell us where the music world is going for the next decade"

To Hell in a Handbasket 😉

DarkSidhe

I think music is likely to continue the four or five decade cycle of rehashing music from the past that it has been doing for a couple of cycles now

rhyot

On our current trajectory, here's where I think music is headed for the next decade:

Streaming will continue to dominate. Smart recommendations, discovery tools, AI playlists, are already here, but as algorithms improve further, so will the user experience.

AI music is officially here and capable of turning out sound of a quality better than the incoherent digital screaming of years past. I don't have the brightest outlook on what this means for an already insanely competitive industry, or what we'll do to embrace (and in a sizable demographic - reject) it. Hopefully, the primary impact will be on sample generation, workflow improvement, improved intelligent mix and master reference / application, and more. The skillgap will undoubtedly continue to narrow, and the criteria that defines a "professional" musician will be reassessed completely. AI is great at performing tasks, but not great at making key decisions that reflect the magic of human creativity. Independent musicians will take a "director's" role over their creation, synths will be patchable for sound design from a type prompt, etc. Artists who excel at quality output, but struggle with volume of output will see big gains from this. I could see this allowing more musicians to approach larger bodies of work, such as albums, rather than wrestling single to single. This leads me to the next point.

Trends currently show a yearning among consumers for physical format media once again, not just in music, but in other artforms such as photography and painted / drawn art, sculpture, etc. I think this will extend to music and we'll see a continued rise in popularity of physical format music for collectors and enthusiasts who are missing the tangibility lost in the streaming culture. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm hopeful for this. I want to see 2033's iterations of record stores slammed-packed with music lovers. Maybe we'll see new physical media development for music? Revolutionize vinyl albums with backward compatibility for traditional press / lathe cut? Hmm. Recycled plastic records maybe?

Web3/Blockchain technology will continue to be developed and adoption will continue to rise. As we look at the ways in which the music industry can be entirely revolutionized by this "new" framework, every aspect from digital format to business back-end, payments, contracts, etc., can be flipped on its head. There are already a wealth of companies seeking to pioneer change through this space, and hopefully as society matures around the concepts, functional / utility advancements and capabilities of blockchain tech will outgrow (while still allowing for) the volatile trading / financial gain culture that exists around NFTs and cryptocurrency, which has been the tip of the iceberg for years now.

End-note: kill the .wav; .aif is, and has always been, superior.

tokenboomer

There will be an increasing gap between those that embrace music created mostly with technology and those who prefer to master and perform with traditional instruments. The soft middle will be those who use technologically generated instruments in order to generate the sound of traditional instruments. Vocals will revert back to purer sounds with less affects.

tunedlogic

Music has been around since the beginning of time, and the only guarantee is that the art will continue to evolve with tech. The great thing about music is that it’s completely up for interpretation depending on the listener and artist.

The listener and artist are in a delicate dance with each other, and changing technology amounts to different dance moves. It doesn’t add or take away from the beauty of the medium; it just adds more spice to it.

Miri Astro

AI will advance dramatically and even make its way into hardware.

B. Miller

How to enter?

Masoud

Hopefully within next decade we will invest more in music education. AI will advance no matter what but fundamentals stay the same.

JorgeSEDJs

For the next decade the music world is going to be easier to create with incredible speed and even more options of creativity access beyond anything we can comprehend. Laptops will be a thing of the past and the sounds are going to be mind blowing. Its going to be freaking exciting!!!

the timefly

It’s all going to reset. Technology will overtake us all and then the earth will do what the earth has always done. Trim the fat and start again. The evidence is all around us. Look at ancient Egypt. Look to the Mayans. Everything in nature happens in waves. EVERYTHING. Including sound. In the meantime, I will continue to embrace the beauty of technology (that too, is nature). I will continue to excite the waves of frequencies in any way that I can; sending them into the heavens with the hopes that it will be received by anyone or anything that is willing to listen and feel. Perhaps they will get something out of it. Perhaps not. That’s ok. Hopefully I get a clone or two to help me, or even take over full control. Then I will be well rested and productive at the same time. Bring it on. Bring it all on…

ORRM

Music will continue to evolve and in ten years developers will continue creating more music gear for professional musicians or those who want to create music as a hobby a lot easier. Gear and software will be more accessible to every music enthusiasts without having to break their piggy banks :).

azteksams

I think that artists will focus on creating content specifically tailored for streaming platforms, and collaborations between musicians and streaming services will become more common. Also, the music world is likely to continue diversifying with the blending of genres and the emergence of hybrid styles by experiment with fusing different musical elements to create fresh sounds.

robust_nachos

AI will be a tool to help musicians be faster, more efficient, and potentially more experimental while it also completely eliminates certain kinds of music or reduces them to a low value commodity. An example that comes to mind for the latter is stock music. At one point, if you wanted music, someone had to write it for you. But eventually music was written to be part of stock libraries. That includes samples, loops, and beats. All that could be eliminated with an AI that simply produces it for you wiping out that entire line of work. As sad as that is, it also empowers producers to try more things… potentially.

One thing is for sure, music will be very different in future.

bonus: I fully expect AI artists to top the charts — fully virtual artists. Gorillaz without the humans and taken to the next level.