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Laptop music--counterfeiting aura in the age of infinite reproduction.
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine, June, 2002 by Kim Cascone
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It was only a couple of hundred years before the advent of sound recording that musicians became free to perform concerts for the public (that is, other than opera and jongleurs which are beyond the scope of this essay). Until the appearance of the concert hail in the 1700s, music was primarily performed in the socialized settings of churches, European courts and in the parlours of the aristocracy, where the musician's work and body were fully owned by their employers.
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Once freed, the act of performing music shifted from indentured servitude to entrepreneur, and thus became based on "exchange," i.e., ...
