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i wonder what the next instrument will be
the 20th century brought us… the electric guitar, the bass guitar, and the drumkit, in the process inventing… the band? not to mention the synthesizer.
will the 21st century bring us something new or are we living in very nostalgic times trying to forget the chaos engulfing us all and unable to innovate
maybe we peaked as a civilisation with the electric guitar and will never discover guitar 2
if i'm to be fairer, the synthesizer is not just one instrument but a class of instruments… all of which were invented in the 20th century. the modular synth, the keyboard, the drum machine, the groovebox, the vocal synthesis, the rack-mount rompler, even the software plugin!
though Hatsune Miku is a classic instrument of our times and she didn't grace us until 2007. perhaps we can simply choose to consider vocal synthesis to have been invented then
@hikari "But what about Hatsune Miku-"
Okay so I saw this was a thread so scrolled up to read from the beginning, started typing that Miku / Vocaloid was a 21st century instrument while continuing to read and then saw that yeah, you do mention Miku 2 posts later
Also as much as I love Hatsune Miku and a lot of early vocaloid was formative and she is absolutely an icon of this century...alas, I cannot honestly say she qualifies for the nigh-unattainable credentials a hypothetical "Guitar 2" would need