On music

The traditional structure of music involves influences/composer/players/audience. This has changed somewhat but the big change and a popular new model based on p2p and crowdsourcing and would really charge what the creative commons would enable - realtime collaboration and jamming and play. Such a technology does not exist yet in the zeitgeist. However we are close.
(Open Source mod based music is certainly on the cards here, and another would be the p4p/p2p networked music collaboration, so that whatever you do would create music in your personal music world and could also contribute for influences to other places, instead of just listening to music people would collaborate - the move from passive to interactive, for this imaginary platform you could do searches based on samples and doewnload samples and arrangements up to whole songs.)
When I look back there is a sort of transcendence has come as a culmination of a change through time which has shortened the timeframe of a style of music, and created dozens of styles of acoustic music and hundreds of styles of electronic music.
I developed a sense of search for music which was shared by many of my fellows, that intended to escape the system of locking yourself into a particular style, we found that there were styles that attempted to exit many conventions of music - like rhythm in ambient. This way it was not necessary to keep looking for the new new music. We also found styles which used many different styles as the source of influence.