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Benefits for EAM

Since you will be able to meet almost anyone electronically, or ``virtually'', on the Internet, there will be more opportunities for communication and less time will be spent on meaningless production of artifacts and travelling around.

EAM as a subculture with a rather limited popularity can benefit from this development since the global community interested in electroacoustic music is big enough to form a living collective. At the same time the distinction between EAM and other forms of music will be more of an esthetic and sociologically determined one, than a technical one. It really depends on the composers and other actors in the subfield, whether EAM in the future will exist as a separate form of music or not. The most unique feature of EAM are perhaps still that the EAM composer most often wants to control the sound material in more detail than the traditional instrumental composer.


Thomas Sjöland
Thu Mar 16 12:05:17 MET 1995