gimme another

From: Scott Dorsey <kludge-at-grissom.larc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: Music in 2005
Date: 9 Mar 1994 12:20:24

By extrapolating from the increase in volume at concerts since the 1950s,
we can see that by 2005, most concerts will exceed 180 dB SPL. Marshall
will manufacture a guitar amplifier which will be found to be unacceptable
under the Geneva convention. Because most musicians will be unable to
hear anything at all due to profound deafness, musical styles will change
such that the musicians within a group will play by themselves without any
connection to the playing of the other group members. This composite and
disorganized style, called the Tohu Bohus, will be the foundation of
contemporary twenty-first century music.

The current fad for body modification will be expanded and extended. Most
professional vocalists will have an implanted tube added to their trachea
and will perform with breath assistance from off-stage air compressors
running as high as 60 PSI. The increase in vocal levels and range will
dramatically change the possibilities in vocal music, as everyone will be
able to sound like Yma Sumac for only a small medical bill. Scat singing
will appear, and several albums consisting only of vocals with vocal
accompaniment in several registers will be popular.
Pete Townshend will remain popular, and will perform a number of tours
in geriatric centers throughout the world, where he will smash guitars,
IV bottles, false teeth, and hearing aids. After smashing the crutches
of one older woman, she will be able to walk, and he will take on a new
career as a faith healer.

Elvis will remain dead, but this will not deter the huge number of promoters
who will attempt to put his exhumed corpse on-stage as part of a grand Elvis
multimedia show. Most shows will be sold out.

--scott

gimme another



Visitors' comments for this page [Add your own]
powered by HTDB
42,481 impressions
8 comments
try yr luck!