ABSTRACT
Technology plays an increasingly prominent role in music. Today most music is produced or consumed with the aid of technological devices. The recording industry is founded upon a series of technological innovations, ranging from the original Edison phonograph to the latest MP3 software compression algorithms (Chanan 1995, Day 2000, Morton 2000).1 Even a live concert by a symphony orchestra is scarcely possible without microphones, mixing consoles, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and so forth. New electronic and computer technologies have left their mark, and have sparked the development of new sorts of instruments, such as the electric organ, the electric guitar, the synthesizer, and the digital sampler.
