Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology

Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Book Award (1997)

Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs of musicians, writes Paul Théberge; they also have become "a driving force with which musicians must contend." He argues that digital synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers in studio production and in the home have caused musicians to rely increasingly on manufacturers for both the instruments thems…