Many people collect music that they like and surround themselves with it. Nothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of music.
Nothing is accomplished by playing a piece of music.
Our ears are now in excellent condition. Photoelectric, film and mechanical mediums for the synthetic production of music will be explored. Whereas, in the past, the point of disagreement has been between dissonance and consonance, it will be, in the immediate future, between noise and so-called musical sounds. The present methods of writing music principally those which employ harmony and its reference to particular steps in the field of sound, will be inadequate for the composer, who will be faced with the entire field of sound. New methods will be discovered, bearing definite relation to Shoenberg's twelve-tone system. and present methods of writing percussion music, and any other methods which are free from the concept of a fundamental tone.