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. This is because the traditional aural skills (interval recognition, chord identifi cation, aural transcription, score-reading, sight-singing, etc.) rely on notation as much as musical sound itself.
