{"id":32,"date":"2008-06-06T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-06-06T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:25:20","slug":"in_the_year_2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2008\/06\/in_the_year_2000\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Year 2000&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">by guest blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automaticheartbreak.com\/\">Corey Dargel<\/a><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"futureofmusic.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/futureofmusic.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"248\" width=\"300\" \/><\/span><br \/>Molly has returned to the United States of &#8216;Mur&#8217;ca, so she&#8217;ll be reclaiming her blog next week.&nbsp; Thank you all for reading and commenting on my writings.&nbsp; I was trying to think of a single, big topic to end with, but I&#8217;ve come up empty.&nbsp; So instead, I&#8217;ll leave you with a few predictions about the future of music:<\/p>\n<p>1) There will emerge something called a &#8220;gay aesthetic&#8221; dubbed as such by metrosexuals who hope to be able to conceptually experience a sexuality spectrum wider than they are willing to act on.&nbsp; Buzzwords will be used and analyses will be published, but behind the smoke and mirrors, the &#8220;gay aesthetic&#8221; will be reduced to the following:&nbsp; Male composers sometimes write feminine-sounding sonorities, and female composers sometimes write masculine-sounding sonorities.&nbsp; (The National Organization of Bi-Curious Composers will set the guidelines to distinguish between feminine- and masculine-sounding sonorities.)<\/p>\n<p>2) A new genre called &#8220;post-whatever&#8221; will become the next direction for Generation Z art-music.&nbsp; The term &#8220;post-whatever&#8221; will be utilized without a hint of sarcasm or disaffection.&nbsp; (Incidentally, a slightly different genre will take hold of the literary arts, dubbed &#8220;post-whatsoever&#8221;)&nbsp;&nbsp; (Tip o&#8217; the hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/peterflint.com\/\">Peter<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>3) As part of the &#8220;post-whatever&#8221; genre, creative musicians will follow the Hollywood trend of remaking recent masterpieces only a decade or two after the originals were made.<\/p>\n<p>4) People will begin to accept that geographically lopsided arts funding may have something to do with population density.<\/p>\n<p>5) Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed will divorce.<\/p>\n<p>6) Authenticity and mediation will come to mean the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>and finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>7) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlutheradams.com\/\">John Luther Adams<\/a> will discover a way to control Earth&#8217;s climate through music.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by guest blogger Corey DargelMolly has returned to the United States of &#8216;Mur&#8217;ca, so she&#8217;ll be reclaiming her blog next week.&nbsp; Thank you all for reading and commenting on my writings.&nbsp; I was trying to think of a single, big topic to end with, but I&#8217;ve come up empty.&nbsp; So instead, I&#8217;ll leave you with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}