A Wired Playlist
Wired UK ran a competition a little while ago to win tickets to one of their symposia on the ‘Future of Music’. Entrants had to build a playlist reflecting that theme. I won, but couldn’t go. Here’s my playlist, reflecting the story of a future to come.
1. Gil Scott-Heron : The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
..and we won’t see it coming either
2. Error : Nothings Working (Error)
.. When the revolution came, what worked for us before in hindsight seemed now to be completely inoperable (Punch cards? puh-lease)
3. Kashiwa Daisuke : Requiem (Dec 5)
..So we said farewell to old technology and ways of thinking and embraced the future
4. Serj Tankian : Reconstructive Demonstrations (Imperfect Harmonies)
..Of course there were many choices of future to be had, each shouting over the top of the other…
5. The Gutter Twins : Who Will Lead Us? (Saturnalia)
..But we made our choices and found our pioneers…
6. Devin Townsend : Notes From Africa (Synchestra)
..we found many of them in Africa…
7. Will Haven : Carpe Diem (Carpe Diem)
.. and we seized the opportunity to put our own stamp on the future with what we learned from there.
8. Joe Satriani : A Cool New Way (Super Colossal)
.. We found many new ways to do many things we took for granted..
9. Iron Maiden : Brave New World (Brave New World)
.. and built our brave new world from the seeds of opportunity..
10. A Perfect Circle : Gravity (The 13th Step)
.. We chose to live ..
Album names are in parentheses. The playlist as a whole spans four decades and many different generations of music making technology.
