ABSTRACT
The Music World could be as simple as creation, presentation, and distribution, but that is whatwe assume. It is not as simple as what we think of it. There are many issues regarding music, one thingcomes to mind is of piracy, which will also find its place here. We decided to focus more on thepresentation of music.
One of the main issues we‟ve come across is about the Loudness Wars, the increasing loudness of music
through the years. It had led to the harshness of music which leads to the listeners easily fatigued.
Do all of us want to have music that is up so loud that we ourselves have no completecontrol of the volume? What could help fix this problem?
The transition from Optical to Digital format had also made its way here; this led to the easy acquisitionof music through the internet, file sharing was made, which also helped in mass piracy.
How could we maximize the digital format? What could possibly help the artists lessentheir loss of profits due to piracy?
Another issue would be the effect of music to the listeners, many articles over the internet have claimedover music helping develop the minds of people but they are mostly pointed out to classical music,studies with other genre of music have yet to be completely approved, there are even claims on othercertain genres of music producing negative effects.
How does music help in developing our thinking? What other benefits does music giveout to listeners?
With all these issues, information about it is just around the internet, this will help us learn about the oldand new music we have these days, and who knows? These things could likely help us in picking outmusic we want to listen into.
INTRODUCTION
Who can live without music? People from the early ages listen to music, some became artists, andbecame famous because of their work, some make profit from music, and some just listen for relaxation.The EMTECH Symposium which was held last month in De La Salle opened the eyes of our group andsome students regarding the perception of music. According to Prof. Lester Demetillo, music is
omnipresent “
People do
n‟t need to hear something to say that it is music
, even silence is considered
music” this means any sound that is created is considered
music; this also includes the sound of silence.The research paper would discuss the following issues: Loudness wars,
Transition from OpticalMedia Audio Format to Digital Media Audio Format and Effects of Music to People. The loudness warswill discuss and compare how the reproduction of music has changed with the use of modern software. Itwill discuss how the volumes have increased overtime and its pros/cons and how the problem should beaddressed. The second issue is Transition from Optical Media Audio Format to Digital Media AudioFormat. It will cover the evolution from CD audio that the Major recording company has been pushing tothe emergence of Digital music format. It will also cover the issue of using the DJ hardware which uses
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