music has the potential to create emotion, communication, inspiration and experience
in human listeners. at its best, it penetrates the boundaries of self and pulls the
listener into its moment of sharing. music lives in a world that is built on our own
and the connection between the two requires the muse and the muscian.
broken into its parts, music is a collection of sounds, which, if music theory has
any say in the matter, are arranged in a series of mathematical patterns that are
pleasing to the ear. ah, and it is the ear that is the key to the world of sound
and of music.
music can be broken done in patterns of information, which can then be decoded
and encoded again and again. more traditionally, music is performed live, but as
technology advances music has evolved into different forms. music can be recorded
onto tapes, vinyl, compact disc and dvd and played back later. no longer limited
by temporality, music was free to make its next leap into digital form.
