Base Camp

I think it's safe to say that the age of broad innovation is coming to a close or has already passed for most of the ways in which we express ourselves.


I'm listening to a piano concerto by a Russian composer and it's phenomenal. I loved it the moment I first laid ears on it.

But after the last gasps of innovation float from the dying lungs of film and television and as music's flaming corpse finally succumbs to the cold depths of some northern sea, what will come next?



Could that be what the Mayans were talking about when they said in 2012 we would undergo a great change? When the Lumiere Brothers first screened one of their moving pictures didn't the collective paradigm shift for the whole world? Is it possible that we have reached our culture zenith?

So...what's next?
What can we expect?
Or are we doomed to a future where quality is overtaken by quality?

Where is our next Rachmaninov?
Or Kandinsky.
Or Salinger.
Or Malick.



Who will save our souls now?