1/4/2024 0 Comments Ryley walker age![]() I could tell he was capable of moving his music in a lot of directions, possibly treating each new record like an empty page. His singing voice has a sort of old soul quality to it, his guitar playing, quietly acrobatic. I could tell he was most likely wise beyond his years. I know his second record, from 2015, Primrose Green. ![]() How can music provoke in the modern age of computer music? What is music supposed to even do anymore?Ĭan it still transport? Can it still feel spontaneous?Īre there still records that sound timeless? Or, perhaps, more accurately, out of time? When even an indie musician acts erratically at, say, a music festival, or refuses to bend to the will of modern passivity, the modern artist is often chastised for being, well, an artist. And this had led to musical malaise amongst the listening public. Simply put, subversion is bad for big business. Corporate media consolidation has given way to unprecedented control over the music business. As the public still withers in the wake of the Telecommuncations Act of 1996, it is not hard to see why. Most pop, rock and a lot of indie music is a computer manipulation.Ĭontemporary popular music is not meant to impose or challenge. Brian Eno recently commented on the darker side of modern recording techniques, pointing out that “the temptation of the technology is to smooth everything out,” to correct any perceived mistakes “until every bar sounds the same…until there’s no evidence of human life at all in there.” Consider the radio dial of 2016.
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