Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music

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Most consumers think that the audio played on the car's FM radio is good, or I think that playing music with the current iPhone's earphone (this is bad). The problem is that modern music is designed too much and compressed, so it can not solve the fundamental problem of contemporary music production with a new port and slightly better DAC. For convenience rather than sound quality, people listen to music on mobile phones. As long as the quality is at least 192 kbs (at least), music sounds great at any connector port. Unless Apple intends to add a set of luxury headphones to the iPhone (I think it never existed), what does it mean?

With the development of contemporary mass media (high-speed communication to a number of communication technologies such as radio, television, recording, etc.), a new family of music was born, pop music, simple structure / theory, and folk informal high quality music It was. Although popular music does not evolve in a particular culture, it rapidly develops by professional composers (such as art music) (as it spreads rapidly through mass media). In the United States there is a fusion of two popular folk music. One of them is mainly American folk music including a variety of traditions from British folk music (of course this tradition is introduced to American colonies) and thousands of other slaves to the United States It is a departed African music. Most popular music types can trace back to these traditional fusion, a combination of West's major minor songs and African rhythms.

The development of audio recording technology, as well as the ability to quickly and cheaply distribute recordings and musical scores, is the center of the modern music revolution. Many Western art music catalogs are becoming more accessible. In addition, non-Western music is open to sudden exploration (through recording and recording works), whereby Western composers are exposed to countless strange music ideas. The sound can be operated infinitely. Further development in audio technology has produced electronically generated sounds. After all, many composers believe that all sounds can be regarded as a kind of music, even "noise".