ABSTRACT
The ear is the most important attribute of the digital musician. The more music has become a matter of the manipulation of sounds rather than notes, the more central the aural aspects have also become. What musicians do with their ears, rather than their instruments, has been a relatively neglected aspect of musical training up until now. Traditional aural skills, such as interval recognition, chord identification, aural transcription, score-reading, sight-singing, and so on, while useful in certain musical situations, only go part of the way towards the kind of aural awareness necessary for digital music.
