Ecstasy Solfège

Abstract

To appreciate the nature of Music Technology today one needs to look in all sorts of places. Outside research confines, one finds that the combination of music and electronic technology has evolved into a cultural experience more complex than would have been thought possible. Few people could have articulated the kinds of musical events that now flourish and which depend heavily on certain characteristics of electro-acoustic sound production. Some twenty or so years ago, the vision music technology fostered was relatively simple. Amid a musical scene in flux, technology offered to help the composer make a uniquely contemporary statement about a musical future. One that, for the most part, was still a descendant of western musical thinking, at least, as it had coalesced around the middle of this century. Show more