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Article: Listening to Milton Babbitt's electronic music: the medium and the message.(A Symposium in Honor of Milton Babbitt)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 1997
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Few composers of electronic music in the 1960s took Marshall McLuhan's slogan "the medium is the message" literally. If considered at all, the statement was best appreciated as an invitation to focus attention on the contingencies between a message and its mode of transmission. But this was really nothing new, for the relation between messages and channels had been already mathematically formalized a decade and a half earlier in Claude Shannon's "Information Science." Certain dependencies between musical ideas and their implementation in the electronic medium, however, were not adequately addressed in general until 1962 in an important article by Milton Babbitt. The article, ...
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