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The Digital Musician

By Andrew Hugill, Andrew Hugill

Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge – 312 pages

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Description

The Digital Musician examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skill through the prism of recent technological innovations. New technologies, and especially the new digital technologies, mean that anyone can create music without any musical training. How do we know what is good? This involves developing a personal aesthetic, an awareness of the context for one’s work, specific musical and technical abilities and an individual identity.

Reviews

'Hugill's text, in keeping with his subject - the digitally networked, culturally savvy musician - reaches beyond the mere printed page through the inclusion of copious and wide-ranging listening examples, recommended further reading and creative projects… this book ticks all of the educational boxes replete with a wealth of resources to satisfy both the student and educator alike… one of the major strengths of this book is the author's lateral thinking and his almost virtuosic ability to draw together a wealth of technical and aesthetic ideas in order to illustrate his points… The Digital Musician is a highly stimulating book that asks of its readers as many questions as it attempts to answer. As such it is strongly recommended.' - Organised Sound

Contents

Introduction 1. Aural Awareness 2. Understanding Sound 3. Organising Sound 4. Creating Music 5. Performing 6. Cultural Context 7. Critical Engagement 8. The Musician in the Studio 9. The Digital Musician 10. Projects and Performance Repertoire. Table of Illustrations. Bibliography

Author Bio

Andrew Hugill is a composer, writer and Director of the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, where he also founded the Music Technology programme.