This same narrative is used in music all the time. Technology makes it ever easier to produce near-perfect music.
Every note is perfectly in tune and on time. Every drum hit is perfectly on the grid and even acoustic drums are typically layered with samples of perfect drum hits.
Fewer analog instruments are used in favor of synthesized sounds.
Some of this is aesthetics, but much of it is profit driven.
I don’t think it’s my, or anyone’s, place to say if it’s bad or good though.
If anything, I think we’re just unfortunate to be living in a time between organic analog and digital that’s so good it’s even more organic than analog.
30 or 50 years from now, I think this will all be sorted out. Music will be super easy to make and will sound like musicians in a room like the good ol’ days. Movies will feel rich and deep and real. Video games will finally not feel like Doom with higher resolution.
Of course, then people will long for the simple days of the 2020’s when movies, music and games were so much better.
Every note is perfectly in tune and on time. Every drum hit is perfectly on the grid and even acoustic drums are typically layered with samples of perfect drum hits.
Fewer analog instruments are used in favor of synthesized sounds.
Some of this is aesthetics, but much of it is profit driven.
I don’t think it’s my, or anyone’s, place to say if it’s bad or good though.
If anything, I think we’re just unfortunate to be living in a time between organic analog and digital that’s so good it’s even more organic than analog.
30 or 50 years from now, I think this will all be sorted out. Music will be super easy to make and will sound like musicians in a room like the good ol’ days. Movies will feel rich and deep and real. Video games will finally not feel like Doom with higher resolution.
Of course, then people will long for the simple days of the 2020’s when movies, music and games were so much better.