How has the digitization of music affected us?
Music and technology has expressed its importance in the world throughout the ages, uniting people over common passions and interests, and making it easier to do so. However, has the combination of the two been advantageous or detrimental? This website specifically deals with if the technological advancements that music has gone through has been for the better, the worse, or has not been studied enough to determine a definite side.
When looking back, it is easy to see how the technological devices have influenced the song. Vinyl records and phonographs developed a deep love for heavy jazz and blues music due to the deep, intimate feel of the sound being broadcast around the room. The vinyl record with the turntable brought rock music to the popular scene. While jazz was still popular, rock was new and fresh and could be heard clearly with the turntable. After that, compact discs (CDs), making music easier to collect, transfer, and download. There was an even wider variety of sound to choose from due to the introduction of CDs, which then led to the next advancement in technology, then the next, and so on and so on. Thus was the snowball effect of music rolling in and others being piled on top of, and eventually leading to the wide variety of music art that has accumulated over time to come to the still-increasing and ever-expanding network that it is today.
However, have all the outcomes of the marriage of music and technology been positive? Have there not been any negative side effects? And have any of the side effects effected other groups besides the technological industry and the music industry? Read more to view different perspectives on this issue!
Music and technology has expressed its importance in the world throughout the ages, uniting people over common passions and interests, and making it easier to do so. However, has the combination of the two been advantageous or detrimental? This website specifically deals with if the technological advancements that music has gone through has been for the better, the worse, or has not been studied enough to determine a definite side.
When looking back, it is easy to see how the technological devices have influenced the song. Vinyl records and phonographs developed a deep love for heavy jazz and blues music due to the deep, intimate feel of the sound being broadcast around the room. The vinyl record with the turntable brought rock music to the popular scene. While jazz was still popular, rock was new and fresh and could be heard clearly with the turntable. After that, compact discs (CDs), making music easier to collect, transfer, and download. There was an even wider variety of sound to choose from due to the introduction of CDs, which then led to the next advancement in technology, then the next, and so on and so on. Thus was the snowball effect of music rolling in and others being piled on top of, and eventually leading to the wide variety of music art that has accumulated over time to come to the still-increasing and ever-expanding network that it is today.
However, have all the outcomes of the marriage of music and technology been positive? Have there not been any negative side effects? And have any of the side effects effected other groups besides the technological industry and the music industry? Read more to view different perspectives on this issue!
Above are examples of the evolution of music, technology, and music technology. As seen in the photographs, the device and technological side of music has created happiness and ease over the course of its growth. In the video, we see how technology and culture has influence music, showing a proportional relationship.