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Pump Up the Volume: Music as Digital Media

Pump Up the Volume: Music as Digital Media

Music is an essential and fundamental part of the human experience.  Historically, new technology and music have always intersected, creating new art forms and artistic explorations.  In recent years, the explosion of digital media will fundamentally reshape music as an art, as a business, and as entertainment.  Each month, we’ll look at the technology, the people, and the art form to see what changes are here and just over the horizon.

Music Education in the Digital Age

Music Education in the Digital Age

by Earl "Woody"

Mon, Mar 23, 2009

In the old days (all of 10 years ago), aspiring professional musicians followed a well-established formula. To become a working musician, it made sense to go to a music school at the college level. Does the tried-and-true method hold water today; or is formal music education just another way of playing the lottery. What are the odds that the old paths leads to the same places in the Digital Age?

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