Sound, Space and Digitisation
Steve Jones · Media Information Australia · 1993
This article examines the history and current state of digital audio and acoustic communication technology to highlight issues of space, sound and digitisation. Compelling issues arise from the implications of digital audio technology, issues that have a centre in the consumption of reality. Public space, performance and the apprehension/apperception of space are keenly affected by digital audio as it merges with virtual reality technology. The concept of editing is central to innovation in digital audio technology, and it is editing which, as an aesthetic concern, brings together issues of authenticity and realism. Consequently, the discourse surrounding authenticity and the media is played out yet again, in a different form; it no longer circles around questions of location, or space, since digitisation renders such location difficult, and, in many cases, impossible.