Malcolm Lindsay is a musician and classical composer. He started off as a rock musician in the 1980s and helped found the Scottish band Deacon Blue. He's now an established classical composer, even though his lack of classical training means he's unable to write a classical score. However, with computers and technology, he is able to do this with ease. The magic ingredient is the score writing software, Cubase.

Cubase enables him to play various parts of a tune on the midi keyboard, which is then transferred from the midi keyboard into a computer and interpreted as a score. He can then print it out for musicians to play and enjoy.

We caught up with Malcolm to find out how he feels that music has changed with the use of technology and what he thinks the future is for the relationship between music and technology...

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Take it further

If you're interested in the implications and applications of music technology, why not investigate Open University course The Technology of Music? Included as part of the course is a kit for making experiments in sound and versions of Adobe Audition and Cubase software.

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