Too Much Music

Music as Information: What Gets Lost?

September 08, 2023 Alison and Greg Wilder Season 2 Episode 3
Too Much Music
Music as Information: What Gets Lost?
Show Notes

Where does music live? Is it the sound in the room? Is it in your brain? Or maybe it lives on paper? In order to repeat it, we need to create systems to write it down, and ultimately represent music as information or data. But what gets lost when we do this?

Writing music down seems straightforward enough. But as we’ll see, the process of reducing the rich experience of music to dots on paper isn’t as simple as jotting down a grocery list or even writing down your innermost thoughts about last night’s dreams.

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