sjost1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Steven J. Owens) (05/31/90)
Hi all,
I'm looking for information, advice, feedback, pointers, input, or
just plain anything people out there want to send me relating to music,
human communication, and technology.
In case you're wondering, yes, this is part of a class project.
We're working on a presentation on small group communication in the area
of rock (and similar format) bands. I seem to be the only one around who
resembles a competent techie (ie, I know how to sit in front of a computer
and look like I know what I'm doing) so I got elected to look into the
subject area of how technology affects all of the above.
In more detail, the subjects I'm looking for info on include:
a) small group communications in bands, both intragroup (ie, interpersonal
relationships within the small group of a band) and intergroup
(between bands), and in relation to the recording industry.
b) How technology has affected the nature of modern music (midis, remixing,
sequencing, synthesizing) and how that has in turn affected the
interpersonal functioning of bands.
c) How technology has affected musicians' ability to work together (how
much the intrudes upon, or enhances the synergy of a jam session,
for example).
d) The future possibilities of technology enhancing musicians' ability to
work together (as in Stevie Wonder's coast-to-coast jam session a
year or two ago, when fiber-optic linkups were used to electronically
bring the musicians together to work on a song).
e) How technology has affected the recording industry (ie, DAT, the digital
tape recording technology that has many manufacturers worried about
pirating of CDs onto tape) and the nature of the industry itself.
f) How technology has been incorporated into the music itself, and into
specific types of music (for example "Industrial Music," which I've
been told involves going into places like factories and sampling
the sounds of old and new technology there to use in creating music).
I'm torn between saying "post to stimulate discussion on the topic"
or "e-mail me because I read almost none of these groups," so I guess it'll
be the first and I'll have to pay attention to 5 new newsgroups for a while.
Hope to hear from you (many of you!)
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Steven J. Owens sjost1@unix.cis.pitt.edu scratch@unix.cis.pitt.edu
"And herein lies a great danger, for literary artists are notorious liars, and
their lies frequently become the source of people's convictions..."
- Reading Fiction <an essay in Literature: The Human Experience, edited
by Richard Abcarian & Marvin Klotz>
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