The Digital Musician

by Andrew Hugill

The Digital Musician examines cultural awareness, artistic identity and musical skill through the prism of recent technological innovations. New technologies, and especially the new digital technologies, mean that anyone can create music without any musical training. How do we know what is good? This involves developing a personal aesthetic, an awareness of the context for one’s work, specific musical and technical abilities and an individual identity.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Art

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Darren · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lifetime's worth of directional wisdom for a craft who's relative lack of historicity (not to mention aggressive capitalist appropriation) can often lend itself to a sense of aimlessness and uncertainty. A must-read for endeavoring noobs wanting to cut through the bullshit and get pointed in the right direction, not just musically, but also artistically. Wish I could send this back to my 15 year old self.

[Stefan Lischewski · Rating 4 out of 5]

A brilliant resource to start with if you wanna know more about electronic music, sonic art, sound design etc.

[Aleksandar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book that's more history and philosophy than anything else.

Reads like a textbook, and I found more skippable parts than expected, but overall worth the read for a musician that wants to do something outside the box.