Listening Spaces  "Performance or Projection"

Physically Controlled Music is being performed Mechanical actions for the purpose of producing sound and music in a physical environment are essential for the musical creation and transmission and unique in its being related to a certain time and place. Those actions are true performances, based on long-term training with mechanical instruments and proven interactions with the listener.

Non-Physical Controlled Music is being projected or injected Mechanical actions for the purpose of producing sound and music in an electronic cybernetic environment are not necessary and always replaceable by an electronic description of the sound or the music itself. Electronic music can be reproduced any time at any place without any change of its musical entity. Playing cybermusic from an electronic environment is a projection into a certain physical space, or an injection in case the music is transmitted directly to the ears or the brain of a listener.

Consequences The following are some of the aspects that mark important differences of musical presentation in front of conventional music performance: Real-time electronic seems not to be adequate for the presentation of cybermusic. However, it may be very useful for the cybermusic creation. Visual projection might match the cybermusic projection approach. However, the visual attraction is moving the focus away from the primary attraction of sounds. New musical communities are built on the communication basis of time and space independent musical distribution. On the other hand, listener may become lonelier since no society event is required to bring the music into sound with a common receipted performance. It is important to notice that most of conventional music is listened today through projection as well, although it has been generated by performance. In addition, studio performance instead of a real-time concert and methods of studio mastering are already pointing toward hybrid systems of musical generation. Cybermusic projection moves the general musical communication toward a scheme that is known from literature: An author produces a book for asynchronous distribution and perception.

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