I've found the right photo when I googled "hightech player" in Japanese. Just in case you wanna buy :)
Brian Eno's Interview
http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/thebridge/thehotseat/brian-eno--curator-of-luminous--vivid-sydney.aspx
The interview article was interesting, particularly the following part.
I think that in music there is no history any longer: everything is present. This is one of the results of digitisation, where everybody owns everything: you don't just have your little record collection of things you saved up for and guard so carefully. My daughters have 50,000 albums or something each, but not only that they have albums from every era of popular music history, from doo-wop onwards, and they don't really know what's current and what was done a long time ago. For instance, they were listening to something a few nights ago – some prog-rock thing, I can't remember what it was now – and I said "gosh, I remember when that came out we all thought it was really boring," and she said "what? Is this old then?" [laughs] To her, and many of her generation, everything is equally present so "retro" doesn't really have quite the same meaning.
I know! Additionally when you receive thousands of music data in your HDD from your friends, it's more radical... I don't remember many track and artist names anymore... :-/
Ryuichi Sakamoto's interview about music's direction in future was also good, so I'm wondering whether I summarize it in English... or first of all should I introduce YMO to you guys?
Thank you very much for this interesting interview with Eno !
返信削除Over the last years, I came to realise the same thing about history : that nowadays, when nearly everything is available instantly at this very moment, we loose (or forget) our ability to sort things in time - that is to say : our sense of history. When everything is present, nothing will be past, hence no history.
This is true for all aspects of our life that are concerned with the Internet and digital technology. It's strange that people rarely talk about that - maybe it's such a fundamental shift in our culture that we're hardly aware of this ongoing process ?
Anyway, I don't know what the result of all that will be but it isn't quite encouraging to loose an ability...
Oh, but don't hesitate to report about that Ryuichi Sakamoto interview which I'm really looking forward to ! No problem on my site - I'm well aware of him and YMO :-)
Thanks for the comment too!
返信削除Hmm, when I think about it, the word "flat" came to my mind. Internet and computer got rid of (or lower) barriors of time and other many things.
Someone wrote it's most important now to know how to find information (in your laptop) quickly that you need, not to try to memorize it.
Roger! (as to Ryuichi Sakamoto's interview) :)