The Phenomenon of Digitalizing Music as a Factor of New Sociocultural Transformations
Anna Viktorovna Popova, Светлана Сергеевна Горохова, Guzel M. Aznagulova, Marianna G. Abramova · Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal noj Nauki · 2021
The article examines the issue of interaction between classical and contemporary music created on the basis of innovational technology, including those using digital technologies. Analysis is made of their impact on all the stages of the musical industry, beginning with the creation of musical compositions of various genres, their performance and ending with fixating the result on information holders. The authors draw our attention to the historical landmarks of incorporating the forward technologies into the art of music. The work raises issues of culturological consequences of this implementation into the musical world, and in addition certain aspects connected with the scientific and technological progress in music are touched upon. The authors come to the conclusion that overall, regardless of the absence in the musical community of the paradigm of perceiving electronic innovations, the process of “digitalizing” music (at least in a certain part of its creation, replication or perception) is quite relevant to the contemporary trends of development of culture in general and music culture in particular. For this reason, when mentioning on some of the negative aspects of digital impact of technologies on music, the authors come to the conclusion about the consistent pattern of the indicated process which continues the tendency of perfection of classical musical instruments and the acoustic of concert halls, only on an essentially new level corresponding to the present-day state of scientific knowledge. Keywords: musical composition, phonograph, synthesizer, vocoder, computer technologies, sample, sampling, mixture.