{"id":5212,"date":"2010-05-21T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.mixmatchmusic.com\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2010-05-24T12:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:52:02","slug":"sf-musictech-summit-6-futuristic-instruments-irrelevant-labels-and-ticketmaster-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2010\/05\/21\/sf-musictech-summit-6-futuristic-instruments-irrelevant-labels-and-ticketmaster-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"SF MusicTech Summit 6: Futuristic Instruments, Irrelevant Labels, and Ticketmaster Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With every passing SanFran Music Tech summit, the speaker list<\/a> and the sponsor list<\/a> look more and more like red carpet roll calls, and the schedule<\/a> includes increasingly poignant panel topics. At past conferences, despite the rampant enthusiasm of attendees, there seemed to be an overhanging tone of uncertainty about the music industry. It was as if everyone was walking around being excited about all these crazy new technologies and possibilities and yet couldn’t quite relax because nobody really knew what direction things were going in. It seems like this may be starting to shift. Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post points out that things could be worse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the possibilities of the future of music begin to emerge, one hot topic is the future of musical instruments. Roger Linn, Max Mathews, Ge Wang, John Chowning and Dave Wessel gave a fascinating demo of just what some of those possibilities might look like.\u00a0Mashable asked<\/a> what people thought about this. The comments are revealing in that they are a good example of some pretty strong sentiment on both sides of the argument (technology + instruments = good or bad?) .<\/p>\n