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Double Feature: The Death of Music and the U.S. Economy |
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Dr. Samuel Says -
Rants
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Among my many, many past professional incarnations, I once spent several years laboring in that most rarified of academic environs -- the university music department. When the bottom fell out of the international espionage market in the 1990s, I fell back on my musical training and ducked back onto campus for a few semesters. If you ever want evidence of the essential meaningless of existence, there's nothing like teaching viola to uppity sophomores, I'll tell you.
I bring this up because I recently received a yet another press release
from our good friends at Nintendo regarding the upcoming title Wii
Music . I marvel at the relentlessness of the Nintendo marketing
machine. Wii Music is worth mentioning, though, because it promises to
take the whole Rock Band/Guitar Hero thing up several exponential
notches. The game aims to expand your choice of instruments from four
or five to 60 or so, including orchestral instruments and exotic
goodies like steel drums and sitar. All which you play (or approximate
playing) with the Wii's motion-detecting controller setup.
 The game hits retail shelves Oct. 20 -- I'll keep you posted. With
luck, we'll weed out the musical dilettantes with these virtual
instrument gaming packages. Some may say such fake music technology is
a bane to future civilization, killing the inclination toward genuine
culture amongst our young people. I say: too late. Just roll with it.
One more quick note. Check out this story for some interesting insights
as to the media penetration of Yahoo's ever-expanding empire. When it
comes to tracking the slow death of our economy, it seems people prefer
the Internet to TV. I concur. I prefer impending doom in digestible 2.5
minute blurbs. Who doesn't?
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