There was a time when music's cutting edge was all about jamming. Performers would gather in a room and just play, picking up on one another's riffs and rhythms, on the moods and environment they shared. It's the defining image of the pre-electronic jazz era and, subsequently, of improvisational rock groups like the Grateful Dead or Phish. In other words, it's all very 20th century.
Technology, big surprise, is rearranging that world. Progressive music and sound creation is increasingly moving out of the hands of guitarists and keyboardists in smoky studios and into the chat rooms of tech boffins in cyberspace. Digital...
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