7/28/09

Sound Sensibility

On July 21, the technology company Apple “disclosed its first quarterly decline in iPods sold” as discussed in Arik Hesseldahl’s provocative article “The iPod Is Dead. Long Live the iPod,” from the latest issue of Business Week (linked below).

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090726_261031.htm

New music technologies are increasingly expected to offer multifunctionality while younger generations of music consumers seek products that facilitate more active and empowering forms of creative interaction rather than mere passive reception of music. The very nature of human musical experience is changing to some extent with each new generation of music technologies.


Below are some informative links related to the history of sound recordings:

http://www.recording-history.org/

http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/notes.html

http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm01/history.html



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