Ancient Music

[Camtheman Of Freelancer4Ever]

Do you think any of our music would survive into Freelancer's age? It's 1000 or so years. (817 A.S. ~ 3017 Anno Domini)

Marvin's gonna have a little club party and I dont want any more possible holes.

I mean, Obviously the classical stuff would (Mozart, Beethoven) but what about OUR music.

The 2000's has quite a wide genre margin. We've got popular rock, R&B, rap, hip-hop, pop, and more.

Other decades only have one ussualy.

Also, what do you think about new music, in Freelancer, In RP. People will always love music, what do you think? New genres, you know what I mean right?

[jxie93]

Most contemporary music since the 20st Century is trash compared to classical if you want to evaluate them from a professional musical standpoint. I also doubt the sleeper ships would be loaded with much entertainment anyway since their primary concern was getting the people to a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

But it might be considered classical in Disco'verse, who knows.

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[stardust47]

On a profile thing I have saved on my HDD, my [TAZ] character likes 'classical music' and her favourite band is Nightwish. Just sayin'.

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[Evan_]

Whoa, a real RP discussion.

*takes seat*

To the first question. My answer would be a resounding yes. If I had to leave Earth tomorrow in a sleeper ship there would be a couple hundred gigabites of music with me. A lot of them what I never even heard. But I'd think I'll have plenty of time to listen them, so why would I delete? Assuming that just every tenth guy thinks that way, I'm quite sure that a real lot of music would be saved. I'd even risk the assumption that not a lot music would be lost. And our internet is a perfect tool to keep them alive, I bet once a track has been uploaded to neural, it will stay there. I can imagine that noone listens to them anymore for hundreds of years, but outsiders and Sol fans will always be.

About music of the 800's... That's a hard question. I played Shadowrun, and we always had discussions about various topics about imagining that age. (~2060) Music was one thing what we couldn't realy get a grasp. Ork rap. Troll-metal, dwarf-minimal techno and such didn't sounded too well, we thought that music of that age should be a lot different than anything we could imagine. Let me not try to think about music of the XXIXth century. Too hard. Inrp, say what you think, and you will be right. Who could argue with you?

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[Sprolf]

Salazar Kithe has sung an 80s hit song before.

I found that pretty funny, and you all probably think it's not likely at all and Seth was just being silly... but you also need to keep in mind that he'd have a lot higher chance knowing songs, having been born in - as the Wiki puts it - 2331. Music would have a chance of lasting that long due to electronic storage systems and whatnot, and we could have resurgences in popularity when an old archive is searched through and exceptional songs are found. (I seriously doubt that anything in the last decade would even be considered to be archived, though. There is nothing decent about our music.)


So, that's my take on why Kithe would know those songs.
But.... songs lasting another eight hundred years after the sleeperships landed... I'm not even sure if there'd be many put onto the ship other than the most famous works of artists (and Basement Jaxx wouldn't really count as that, I think), likely Mozart and company.

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[sean24]

Music from the time that they left for Sirius would survive the most. Id imagine that it was quite similar to what we hear in bars and wasn't developed much.

I sort of doubt that people would keep music from hundreds of years ago, especially the insignificant stuff.
Do you guys think we will still be listening to music of the 2000's in 2100?

[sovereign]

You can fit a lot of music onto a hardrive the size of a calculator these days. I have a 600gb one right next to me at the moment. I figure that the sleeper ships contained a copy of Wikipedia and every other cultural snippet they could get their hands on... by sacrificing the space occupied by a single cryopod you could fit centuries of information even at today's memory densities. They certainly would've given more care to the ecological database, but I'm sure at least one person was concerned about preserving the cultural history of humanity.

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[Vogel]

I just say to hell with it and sing whatever; although Vince usually butchers it somehow. In order to make original music for the Freelancer universe.. you'd need a bunch of musicians making original music, 800 years worth of material to be exact. Impractical.

[Chev]

My character Zack Leroy is always listening "music of Ancient Earth". It's Mozart, Beethoven and etc:)

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[Jihadjoe]

The music from centuries ago which we listen to now is only a tiny propportion of what was writen, composed, created.

It's music which has survivability.

People are writing music now which is just as creative, complex and interesting, if not more so. It's just more widely accessable to the public, and easier to share. I think the best of what we create now will be listened to a few centuries time.

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