Technology in music

Technology in music is the foundation of my interest and love of music. I have always loved listening to music, sitting on the floor in the fancy lounge room at my Nan’s house. She had a fantastic stereo, I could hear everything in the music so clearly. It is the technology behind the music that makes and shapes the music.

Blue Monday (1983) - New Order exemplifies how technology shapes music. The journey of Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Peter Hook from Joy Division to New Order, with the addition of Gillian Gilbert, tracks a pivotal time of technology and producers shaping the music. From the punk sounds of vocals, bass, guitar and drums on Joy Division's "Candidate (1979)" (produced by Martin Hannett), through to New Order's "True Faith (1987)" (co-produced by the band and Stephen Hague), as technology rapidly evolved around them, band members Bernard, Stephen, Peter and Gillian utilised the technology to evolve the bands sound. These three tracks were recorded in analogue 1970's studios, with emerging technologies and experimental recording and production techniques. Stephen Morris (drummer) went from playing live drums and recording them for hours with Martin Hannett in Joy Division, to programming patterns (that had to be written on a piece of paper!) on an Oberheim DMX