ABSTRACT
Take a look at this cartoon. What does it suggest? The electronic keyboard appears to play unaided (possibly the boy has simply pressed the ‘demo’ button) and there is an absence of conventional musical ‘performance’. What sort of music might be playing? Although the boy is dressed like an orchestral conductor, might we assume that the music is some sort of electronic-sounding pop pastiche? The small captive audience, placed in their front room as opposed to the concert hall, display varying degrees of emotion: indulgence, boredom, fear. It appears that technology has ‘taken over’, replacing human performance with machine-generated fakery.
