Why Music is About to Change COMPLETELY

Madonna represents the classic recipe dominating popular music for four decades, built on vocals taking the main stage and using common modern music theory

Techno is a genre that throws away all established rules of popular music and is becoming increasingly popular

• Chord progressions: Pop relies on the 1456 progression while Techno uses drones • Tonality: Pop uses major or minor keys while Techno uses chromatic scales and varied intervals • Approach: Techno removes limitations rather than following formulas

These differences represent one of the biggest changes in how music production and the definition of music itself is being approached

Drones can be created by anything and their harmonic content can be much more complicated or much simpler than traditional progressions

One of the easiest ways to create drones is using reverbs and additional effects on sound sources

Instead of major or minor modes, Techno embraces chromatic scales and intervals, where repetition legitimizes any sound through consistent reiteration

The combination creates distinctly different textures that define the Techno sound, as opposed to the harmonic predictability of pop music

While pop music is built on prominent vocal performances, Techno minimizes vocal prominence or removes it entirely due to production considerations

• Robot singing and synthesized vocals • Speech samples and spoken elements • Harmonic vocals integrated as textural elements

The ability to create vocals in Techno through synthesis means anybody can produce music, removing the requirement for trained singers

Anything that limits music production is removed in Techno, allowing for equal participation in music creation

• Analog production required purchasing gear and significant monetary investment • Equipment connections involved drum machines, FX pedals, submixers, samplers, and cassette recorders • Track limitations meant mixing multiple instruments into bus channels • The process was time-consuming, cumbersome, and expensive

Digital Audio Workstations and digital instruments transformed the complex analog setup into a simplified digital interface, removing hardware barriers

Electronic music and Techno producers were first to embrace DAW technology, with Ableton becoming the dominant tool for electronic music producers

Many modern production concepts like drum buses were created due to analog hardware limitations and persisted in the digital era

The presenter, formerly an engineer using AI technologies, recognized that AI could eventually replace any job, prompting a career change to music and content creation

AI technology will soon enable anybody with a desire to create music to do so, removing the current barriers to entry in music production

• Modern AI is becoming increasingly generalized and can converge learnings from different domains • AI can learn from multiple experiences and sources to generate creative outputs • AI might eventually create music as creatively as humans by drawing from diverse experiences

The beauty of art lies in its uniqueness. AI-created music will be valid, but human creations will remain precious because they reflect individual experiences and authentic self-expression that cannot be replicated

• The barrier to music production entry will be removed, allowing anyone to create • AI will enable exploration of new musical theories and approaches

The combination of removed barriers and AI-enabled exploration will change music completely, similar to how the digital revolution transformed production when it emerged

Established producers should not feel threatened by new participants because their years of experience will put them miles ahead of any competition

What musicians create will always be a reflection of themselves and their experiences, making human-created art eternally unique and irreplaceable regardless of AI advancement