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Adam Cross

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Is making new music/sounds possible?

*I am excluding software created sounds.


Using any combination of instruments in a typical orchestra is it statistically possible to create a song which has never been played?


Now that all songs are being recorded how long until every song or composition is attached to an owner. Will humanity eventually run out of original songs?

Also, why has the invention of new acoustical instruments slowed to a stand still?

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Topics: acoustic drums guitar music musical instrument design piano sound violin wind instruments
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    Frans Kellner 100+

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    May 22 2012: I remember a report from anthropologists that studied Papua peoples in the high mountains of New Guinea. Once a year those people traded with people on the coasts. The greatest thrill to them then was that they heard new musical sounds to bring home. Yet their music was still primitive to our ears.

    So to compose music from scratch isn't that easy, it seems to grow out of life and copied manifold over time.
    It is the translation from emotion into sound.

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