In understanding and exploring the above question, one must break down the term technology and look upon the electronic technologies such as microphones, amplifiers, and multi-track recordings.
One could argue that technology allows one to create new and unique sounds due to invention of multi microphones. Similarly, the idea of the ‘perfect recording’ makes music more meaningful and accessible as an artist can create the exact sound they want bit by bit. Without technology this would be impossible.
Likewise, amplifiers allow wider and a greater choice of venues to showcase music, without such technology it would be impossible for a one man band to be heard clearly around large open air stadiums.
On the other hand, playing live and recorded sounds are very different on stage; songs that are made up of many different components make it hard to produce the same sound live. Yet, when seeing an act live do you actually want to hear the artist sing exactly like the record?
This idea of unplugged music is as www.mtv.com suggests, ‘…the peeling away of the trappings of an artists music to reveal the essence at its core.’ Therefore meaning perhaps that it is the lyrics and meaning of the song that is more important then the construction of the tracks. However, music is made much more accessible through technology and without it certain popular music would not work or develop.
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The use of multi microphones was really a technique rather than an invention but I take your point. Overall this is a very good and extremely well expressed post.
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