ABSTRACT
There has been a quiet transition taking place in the world of electronic music. After several decades of rapid technological evolution-from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits to microprocessors to software-we seem to have landed on the hospitable terrain of a digital world. The technological obstacles that once limited composers-processing speed, computer memory, and permanent electronic storage-have been overcome. For the most part, memory is cheap, processing power is fast enough, and digital storage (CDs, minidiscs, DVDs) is adequate to allow composers and musicians the flexibility they need to create music. What does this do to the music? What does this do to the listener?
