Wired Article Tunes In To Music

As the May issue of Wired reminds its techno-hip audience, “generative music” is the audio counterpart to a computer’s screensaver. If at wit’s end about your future, you might stare at your screen and consider being a music producer.

Or maybe not.

The San Francisco-based monthly, which on Wednesday won a National Magazine Award (the industry’s Oscar) for general excellence, has a regular “Reality Check” feature that dissects the hype about a particular, technology-driven topic.

This month it focuses on “The Future of Music,” with six experts asked to opine, especially about the role of the computer.

Some of those interviewed suggest we can imagine a day when our favorite artists exist only in “virtual reality or mediaspace.”