The Machine That Makes You Musical
If Beethoven shifted the way the Western world thought about music from craft to art, and if recorded music ushered in an era when listening to masterful pros trumped amateur playing, Wang suggests that we may now be at another historical moment. “It feels like we’re at a juncture where the future is maybe kind of in the past,” he says. “We can go back to a time where making music is really no big deal; it’s something everyone can do, and it’s fun.” Full story
