In previous columns, I’ve described the benefits of transportable music files, especially for getting your music heard. To balance the virtues of such thinking, one must ask oneself whether the method of digital sampling and recording — or even, for that matter, digital video — is really capturing the essence of the matter being recorded. Of course, this question has been a topic of conversation in the entertainment industry ever since digital recording came into being, but the assessment of the state of digital must always be a subject of research, for art and science both need to move forward equally so that both can benefit.
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What Is ‘State of the Art’ Without Art?
Posted by: Paul Korda April 30, 2004 08:37 AMIn previous columns, I’ve described the benefits of transportable music files, especially for getting your music heard. To balance the virtues of such thinking, one must ask oneself whether the method of digital sampling and recording — or even, for that matter, digital video — is really capturing the essence of the matter being recorded. Of course, this question has been a topic of conversation in the entertainment industry ever since digital recording came into being, but the assessment of the state of digital must always be a subject of research, for art and science both need to move forward equally so that both can benefit.