High Scores
Interview
We caught up with Malcolm and asked him what he thinks is the future for the music and technology in our interview.
The food of love - but what's the menu?
Nietzsche said life without it would be an error - but what is music?
Related programme
Malcolm Lindsay is a musician and classical composer. He started off as a rock musician in the 1980s and helped found the Scottish band Deacon Blue. We caught up with him to find out how technology has changed music and what he thinks the future is for the relationship between music and technology...
Malcolm is now an established classical composer, even though his lack of classical training means he's unable to write a classical score. However, with computers and technology, he is able to do this with ease. The magic ingredient is the score writing software, Cubase.
Cubase enables him to play various parts of a tune on the midi keyboard, which is then transferred from the midi keyboard into a computer and interpreted as a score. He can then print it out for musicians to play and enjoy.
The BBC and the Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites
Take it further
If you're interested in the implications and applications of music technology, why not investigate Open University course The Technology of Music? Included as part of the course is a kit for making experiments in sound and versions of Adobe Audition and Cubase software.
Content last updated: 30/06/2005
