Playing instruments is a relic of a time when physical labor and skill was required to make a living. Now, due to increasing mechanization, mental labor has become supreme...that's why nerds are looked on as modern heroes and electronica has blossomed to hidden supremacy worldwide.
That's absolute hogwash. Something to make lazy "musicians" feel better about not learning to actually play a keyboard or another instrument. All the best electronic musicians actually play instruments.
And if you've never actually felt the wood of a guitar or a bass or a violin vibrate in your hands, or felt the strings respond to your touch, then you have no idea what you're talking about. As long as there are humans there will be physical musical instruments.
Photography didn't make painting obsolete, it just added to the art world. The electric guitar and bass didn't make acoustic guitars and upright basses extinct. And electronics don't make physical instruments obsolete, they are just another class of instrument.
I play analog synths. I love the sound I get from them. But to really get what I need I have to put my fingers on the keys, and I have to teach myself at least the bare minimum technique to play a melody.
I also play bass at jazz jam sessions for fun with musicians at least 5 times better than I am. Jazz is fun because it's human to be social and play in a group with people, and because jazz is improvisational. Show me one, just one, machine that can improvise like even the worst jazz musician I know. Programming a machine ahead of time is not improvising. In jazz you may play the same tune 50 times, but never play it exactly the same way twice. That's what music is all about.
Rock is the same way. I have played in hard rock bands. Jamming with friends, getting it down, and playing in public at heavy volume is what it's all about. I have a cousin who is a professional classical pianist. He plays music that is composed by someone else, but when he plays it he puts his own expression into it by changing up the tempo, emphasizing certain notes and phrases, etc. He makes his own performance.
I love music of all types. But to say playing real instruments is a "relic" is absurd. :rofl:
(Awful as it sounds to me).
