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When we repaint our view of the present and the future only by coloring our consistent habits and perceptions with fancier paints, we are being definitively conservative. History is replete with such pathetic prediction. To be revolutionary means to fundamentally change the bases of understanding so that whatever it is that we formerly understood to be true, is not now necessarily false, but perhaps is rather no longer even a question, or an issue, or susceptible to the same logic. What is most interesting to me about speculations on the future of music does not particularly have much to do with how many machine cycles we can squeeze from a processor, or how sophisticated we can become about designing interfaces, or even how wonderfully close we can come to modelling nature, but rather what our understanding of our own, and particularly one another's minds will come to. Music is, after all, an imposition of one person's perceptions on the consciousness of another, and is as such, a model of mind and of communication among minds. Future music will be very interesting music if we are adventurous and revolutionary in implementing the power of technology and watch each other very attentively as we do.
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