Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Robots Centre Stage

It seems we're evermore relying on our technological products in everyday life that link us with this connotation of a cyborg, such as being plugged into an iPod consuming music, using lap tops and texting on mobile phones. As of recently though, you cant help but recognise the cyborg-esque identity 'artists' are adopting in their sound to create the current music of the 21st century market. With the aid of machines 'musicians' are increasingly leaning on and maybe even (no, they are) exhausting or abusing the use of many digital technologies in the audio world. For examples look no further than much of the mainstream RnB and Hip Hop. There main weapon of mass destruction: Auto Tune. Listen to much (if not all, although I can't) of 'Lil Wayne's material that is put across the airways. Bam! The listener is bombarded with a "cyborg-gangsta", or a hybrid of rapper-meets-Star Wars. It seems more focus is put on the sound of technology rather than a musical talent, or the lack of that is hidden behind a wall of... well, robot voices to move with the ever increasing speed of developing technology. This has been recognised and questioned by other musicians in the field such as Jay-Z with the track "Death of Auto-Tune" Cyborg music for the cyborg-human? Or maybe another dose of creative disaster for the masses following the digital emergence of the 1980s?

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