Music as Information | Understanding, Analyzing, and Augmenting the Sonic World | Too Much Music

Where does music live? Is it the sound in the room? Is it in your brain? Or maybe it lives on paper? In order to repeat it, we need to create systems to write it down, and ultimately represent music as information or data. But what gets lost when we do this? Writing music down seems straightforward enough. But as we’ll see, the process of reducing the rich experience of music to dots on paper isn’t as simple as jotting down a grocery list or even writing down your innermost thoughts about last night’s dreams. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform or check us out at https://www.toomuchmusicpodcast.com/ More from your lovely hosts: Greg: https://gregwilder.com Alison: https://alisonwilder.net/