Technology and Media

To simplify matters for this discussion, consider a simple model of musical performance. Following writings by Alan Merriam (1964) and others, any musical performance includes a process of conceptualization, a performance location, a performance by musicians that creates a flow of sound waves, a carrier that moves those waves from the performers to the audience, the audience itself, and the evaluation of the performance by the audience, the musicians, the conceptualizers, and other interested parties...