But first I will lay out the technological background in some detail.Īlready in the 1970s the computer was so central to Western societies that the notion of the information society had taken hold in public (Briggs and Burke 2002: 260). the Internet, which was issued on the music-publishing site in 2005, there is a professional radio reportage from bbc.co.uk in 2004, and finally there is a podcast from the US media site This Week in Tech in 2006. There is a vocal outburst from a Tasmanian headphone user on YouTube in 2007, there is a little song from a group called God vs. All the examples were found on the internet, through a process of browsing and searching. I have selected some of the innovations that have been made in sound media due to the computer, and will analyse them in detail. Innovation takes place not just in the celebrated media companies such as the BBC, and not just in the laboratories of global corporations such as Microsoft, IBM or Xerox. It is truly interesting that much of this experimentation takes place among ordinary people, at their home computer. The computer has rich opportunities for experiments in journalism and music, and my history must begin here. The acoustic computer – Nervous experiments with sound media Loudspeaker living: Pop music is everywhereĢ. Phone radio: Personality journalism in voice aloneĦ.

The mobile public: Journalism for urban navigatorsĥ. Synthetic music: Digital recording in great detailĤ. The acoustic computer: Nervous experiments with sound mediaģ.

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