A lecture by Karlheinz Essl

The artist’s field of work at all times reflects the prevailing
social and technological circumstances. Due to the explosive
development and availability of new technologies and information
structures the creative field of the composer is also changing: a
time of great upheaval is emerging. - This change will be
demonstrated through some specific examples based on my own
compositional work since the late 1990ies. They illuminate examples
of an extended field of work, which seeks to distance itself from the
much invoked “ivory tower”.

Based on the 1998 lecture available at: http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/cyberkomp-e.html

Composing in Cyberspace. Paper by Karlheinz Essl
Illustrations for the paper