Future Salon

Life After TV Cybersalon. Sunday 25th of March

Our friends in Berkeley are having an interesting Cybersalon again today: Life after TV.

Like the video of Steve Colbert saying to the Dems Impeach Bush now or you are wussies. This will have many-fold more viewers on the Internet than on TV, as it is in the top 10 on Reddit for example.
 

We don't have a TV at home. It is not because we are morally better, it is just that I would watch too much of it. Check out a very funny "What I learned from TV" this American Life radio show to the TV theme.

More details to the Cybersalon:

First they took away the commercials (Tivo). Then they replaced professional actors and scriptwriters with ordinary people trapped on desert islands or interviewing for roles as models and American idols. Soon the rabbit ears will be amputated, phone screens will display pay-per-download videos, and you’ll be able to share home movies and vacation exploits in real time with a small network of family and friends, and even strangers.

What’s there not to like?

Come join our discussion about the coming evolution in mass entertainment

Reminder: Music Open Mike Future Salon Tomorrow

Update: Here is the info if you want to join us from the web:

Point your Quicktime viewer to the following address: rtsp://207.105.30.90/salon.sdp

IRC chat as always use the server: irc.freenode.net and the Channel: #futuresalon

Wow, for a while I thought that Murthy and I will be the only ones presenting tomorrow Friday the 23rd of March 2007 at the Music Open Mike Future Salon.

I didn't look at the accompanying Future of Music Wiki page for a while and all in a sudden all slots are filled. Excellent.

We even have a special guest Troy Gardner from Irvine will dial in via Skype for the Q&A and is prepping a YouTube video for it.

I am quite excited about tomorrow night (details). Still have to prep my part though. See you there.   

Session Slots (copied from the Wiki):

Slot	Name of presenter	Description
1	KRS Murthy	World Music: Innovation Trends and Future Trends in Musical Genres of the World
2	MRO	the future of music
3	Yuecel Karabulut	The future of music: acoustic, traditional, global
4	Troy Gardner	Looping one man band :-) Is joining us from Irvine via YouTube and Skype. Hope it will work out.
5	Joschka Fischer aka. Joseph	See his Future of Music post on bafuture.
6	Mark Finnern	Lost Music in the Future
7	Maribeth Back	The Future of Music Performance: the Brain Opera
8	Michael Good	The Future of Sheet Music: MusicXML 2.0
9	Hans	Prediction: in the future we will no longer have pop music, aka the long tail getting flat

Future Salon Self-Made is Happiness Self-Played?

My favorite quote from They Might Be Giants is:  Music self-played is Happiness self-made.

I think that this is true for the Future Salon too. The one where you have been actively involved are the most gratifying.

Therefore once in an orange Mars we have an Open Mike Future Salon. This month the theme is Future of Music and it is going to happen Friday the 23rd of March. Please RSVP (http://tinyurl.com/2txsuf)

Actively involved doesn't mean that you need to prep and present. Being an active audience is enough, or you may know someone who has an interesting viewpoint on the Future of Music and invite her or him.

5 easy rules for the Open Mike Future Salon:

1. Sign up for a slot on the Wiki or when you arrive at the Future Salon
2. We go down the list.
3. You have 5 minutes for your presentation / music performance
4. There will be 5 minutes of discussion right after
5. If the energy in the room is really high the discussion time may be extended by 5 minutes once.

I may talk about what we are loosing by having always perfect renditions of music available to us. I don't want to turn back time, but I don't think that people are aware of some of the  consequences.

I also like Douglas Hofstadter excellent essay Sounds like Bach, where he expresses his sadness now that computers can compose as good as the old masters.

Very curious what else will be presented and discussed.

Music Open Mike Future Salon

Update: Date of the upcoming Future Salon is: Friday 23rd of March.

Some of you may remember the fun we had in November 2005 at the last Open Mike Future Salon. The difference to our regular Future Salons is that there is not one person presenting a theme, but many people having 5 minutes to bring their points across with discussions following right after. You can check out the video of our last one on the Internet Archive. A new Open Mike Future Salon is way overdue.

Future Saloner KRS Murthy once suggested a talk on music composition techniques and some of you voiced interest in it.

We are combining his suggestion into the Music Open Mike Future Salon. Murthy will open up with 15 minutes including discussions.

Come and present or enjoy the perspectives of your fellow Future Saloners regarding where Music is going in the next 50+ years. We know it is a wide field and that will make it very interesting.

5 easy rules for the Open Mike Future Salon:

1. Sign up for a slot on the Wiki or when you arrive at the Future Salon
2. We go down the list.
3. You have 5 minutes for your presentation / music performance
4. There will be 5 minutes of discussion right after
5. If the energy in the room is really high the discussion time may be extended by 5 minutes once.

The wiki page is not only for the line-up, but also to fill with interesting links and observations regarding the future of music. Please add some.

This is an experiment and will be as good as you are making it :-)