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peaceloveultimate:

This is the music that pregnant women should be playing to their unborn children.  It’s not really dance music or something to listen to with friends, but it is music that should inspire anyone who can sing or play any instrument well.

The thing that I love about music is that it is completely open source.  If you hear something, then, as long as you are musically talented enough, you can play with it and make it your own.  The Red Hot Chili Peppers and a lot of other musicians and songwriters have created some awesome original music throughout history.  I could spend days listening to it and never getting bored if I had the time.  And all of that music is source code.  All of those notes, chord progressions, rhythms, and lyrics are just lines of code sitting in people’s iTunes, shelves, basements, and minds waiting to be tampered with hours on end until the tamperer in question has changed them into something that they believe is more elegant.  Something that they can call their own.

That is why about a quarter of the music on my computer isn’t the music by the original artist.  It is music that people heard and thought, Hey, this would be great if it was a cappella.  What if I took the beginning of War Pigs by Black Sabbath and mixed it with Move Bitch by Ludacris?

Artists that do mash-ups like Girl Talk are engineering music, coincidentally Girl Talk or Greg Gillis actually has a biomedical engineering degree.  College and professional a cappella groups are showing everyone that the human voice has almost no restrictions.  And groups of musicians, such as the Vitamin String Quartet, are doing the same things with their instruments.

I can’t wait to hear what kind of music is created over the rest of my life.  Even if a lot of it is crap, there will always be something to put me to sleep.

I agree with you one hundred percent, my friend.