About innovation...

 

What, after all, is new and innovative music?

Is it still possible, today, in the 21st century, to imagine and even create totally new and unheard-of music?

Does this break have to be in the principles of composition? Create a type of composition hitherto unthought of, with conventional sounds?


Does the break have to be in the sounds themselves? Are there still sounds today that have never been heard before?

What would be totally unheard-of sounds?

What would be a totally innovative compositional scheme?

I have the impression that most of today's ambient and electronic music reproduces pre-existing patterns and models...

This means that this music has organized itself into genres and sub-genres: Berlin School, Drone, relaxation and yoga, new age, etc...

Can the music we create, with synthesizers or virtual instruments, introduce radical innovations - and will these be accepted by their audience, as well as by mediators and prescribers?

Or do the niches and sub-niches of the ecosystem of streaming (especially) and download platforms, which today make all the noise in the music world, by focusing on the lowest common denominator, exclude anything that is a little experimental, disruptive and deviant from what is the norm today?


I don't know how to answer these questions...

But I am pursuing, at my own level and with my own means, the quest for this sonic philosopher's stone...