Music On The Internet

Music colors every part of our lives. By nature it possesses a simple harmony, rhythm, and melody and with the advent of technology these elements are able to produce a great musical depth. A great new outlet to find the latest music and groups is now on internet radio.
"Today's recorded music has computers which really has fine-tuned recording and can make multiple manipulations to perfect the sound and balance," said Pat Pearson, guitar teacher and performer out of Atascadero, California.
Pat performs in the group Cuesta Ridge and also with his wife, flutist Dana Pearson, in the group Pitch and Rhythm. The couple has been performing together for five years and they have spent about 30 hours in a recording studio, as well as experimenting with doing their own home recording.
"We recently acquired a Mac Book from Apple and discovered some pretty amazing music applications that have been amazing for recording and editing songs," Pearson said. "Our cell phones have the ability to audio record so it's always great when inspiration strikes at any time, you have the ability to capture it right then and there."
Computer software related to music production has skyrocketed creating a new genre of music, electronic music. This abundance of new technology has also helped to create a new type of musician, the home recording artist. Anyone who has an instrument and a computer is only a few hundred bucks away from being able to record their own music at home.

"Home recordings have enabled a larger number of people to become recording artists, both amateur and professional," Pat Pearson said. "It allows for the convenience of perfecting your track without the pressure of using and paying high recording fees."

The advent of music production software has opened up new ways of approaching songwriting and recording. In the old days, writing and recording had to be done in real-time. Musicians had to perform every note on record. Today, computer software gives us the capability for musical parts to be sliced up, shifted, and copied to other sections of the recording. This is the manner in which electronic music helps to create those pounding rhythms that inspire us to dance. Software with mastering capabilities also allows access to all the dynamic attributes of recording and post-production so each recorded part can be enhanced to its full potential.
"It's like technology allow(s) the beat to free itself and be more of it's true self," said Tim Gladwill, a.k.a. DJ Evasive, from San Luis Obispo, California, who engages in his own dramatic performances, in the band Ashes to Light. "Music is always going to evolve and free itself and break boundaries." You can get quick and easy access to all this music via free online music sites everywhere.
But with all this new technology it bears the question: "Are we losing out on anything important in our musical experiences?" There are still some distinct advantages when a real, live person is in a room creating a distinctive art form with music. A computer does not have the capacity of heart felt passion and these elements are paramount in extending music into a realm that transcends mere entertainment.
"Modern music lacks a lot of the real rawness and distinctiveness that it once had" Pearson said. In the past it was more about pure music, with the advent of new technologies, some of the purity of new recordings is obscured."
The history of music has shown that the bottom line is expression. If you create from your heart, people will respond. Technology is just another tool of creation. The source of inspiration always comes from within the musician.



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