Musicians and vocalists have been engineering and mixing music forms to come up with new sounds for decades.  This started with the dub poets of reggae and has led to the broader form of Hip Hop.  Indeed, it was the success of these music forms that led to mashup phenomena in general computing.

Music is the creation of sound that conveys meaning to the human listener. It is one of the cornerstones of culture. In the modern era, music has become much more accessible because of the technological advances. On Demand music downloads enables a ubiquitous musical environment. CD, DVD and Blu Ray allow you to take music everywhere you go. Music today has been profoundly effected by technology and has spawned a field called Music Tecnology.

Music Technology refers to the electronic devices and computer software used to make playback, recording, composition, storage, and performance possible. It includes both the technical and scientific aspects of the music, for example, acoustic science, programming, music psychology and sociology, and business practices of the music industry.

When we listen to music videos or download music, we take advantage of the technology put in place for this fundamental cultural form. When we listen to our favorite music artist, we seldom think of all the technology and technique involve with bringing sounds we love to us. We are constantly remined of the fact that technology is a vital aspect of culture.

Music facilitates many things for example if two lovers want to get into a particularly romantic mode they will often employ music to facilitate.

Just look at the following comments and observations on music:
"There's no passion in the human soul,”
"But finds its food in music"
 [George Lillo The Fatal Curiosity]

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie"
[John Milton Arcades]

"If music be the food of love, play on;"
"Give me excess of it" [William Shakespeare Twelfth Night]

It can carry you away so to speak…and really excellent music is not just listened to, heard and enjoyed it can also be edifying, it came assume control of your psyche, conscious behavior and you feel it in your body.  Humanity finds one of its most universal muse in Music from the flute of Kokopelli to the bag piper players of traditional Scots music is more than pleasing sounds, it is a critical language set of human culture.

Really, music is a workhorse.  First and foremost, it is truly a peoples’ art and at the same time is the senior citizen residents for works such the Tudor Age compositions.  The preservation and continued use and enjoyment of historical, what we could call, legacy lyrical auditory communication forms and traditions, of these kinds are valuable to the general progression, preservation and prosperity of human culture.

Today with the legacy and impact of the Napster experience shared file experience, and the current ubiquitous pda centric consumer society, based on the systemic success of technology and innovation such as iPhone iPod and iTune, and their competitors making playing digital music truly portable and mobile, add to that the ability to record to and rip from DVDs, the videos capabilities of youTube AOL and other sources of musical videos, you can see that we are no longer in our parent’s world of sets and mixers, 45s and LPS, cassettes and the department store or local corner record shop.  We are in the music world of the information and knowledge age.