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Digital music and media theory.
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, June, 2002 by Achim Szepanski
Today, music is information. Transposed into binary code it takes on a digital form. In this form it is connoted with computer systems and inscribed in the "epochality of the technological" that can be described within the context of a techno-aesthetic concept, which is intimately bound up with electronic media.
It is media-music regardless of whether one problematizes media from a constructivist position, from a "technological media apparatus" (dispositif) viewpoint, or as an atopic delocalized space of transmissions. Without forgetting theories that put Gottfried Guenther's trivalent operations to the task, Gilles Deleuze's theory of the virtual, expansions on Michel Serres' ...