"New technologies bring about the most immediately visible changes in the cultures within which the arts operate.
Indeed, a consideration of the impact and influence of new technologies cuts across all of the other areas of
conceptual shift listed above and many issues emerging here will be elaborated further under these later headings.
The change from analogue to digital technology is resulting in a wholesale reconfiguring of our experience of music,
at levels from the global to the personal, from the economic to the aesthetic.
As an issue directly affecting composers using electronic technology
it has been most intelligently addressed in terms
of a problematics of human-machine interface by Mike Vaughan.
The essential changes lie in the nature of the data itself which, being in digital systems non-linear, symbolic,
and therefore formally arbitrary in relation to the information it represents, allows new modes of control and addressing.
Such changes are exemplified in the notions of storage and ‘instant recall’.
As the relationship between data and information is a constructed mapping rather than a physical analogue, interfaces can be designed
which are familiar from other practices or which are customised to particular requirements.
As working environments across disciplines become more similar, common concerns emerge, as does a common critical language, and such disciplines may hybridise.
As the technology becomes cheaper and its availability broadens it is consolidated in society in ways
which potentially radically restructure activities like composing and listening."
- Simon Emmerson, 2000 (Music, Electronic Media and Culture)
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released April 15, 2020
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