Data culture generation: After content, process as aesthetic

The concepts of process and data, interest in the technology of contemporar y music,a re contributing to a new musical practice and aesthetics. The rol e of technology in musical production has cast music into data (a tangible entity, commodity or product) and thus made data a kind of cultural object itself in certain contexts (LPs, CDs, MP3 files). This condition suggests t hat a rethinking/transformation of contemporary audio arts based on process is taking place. Increasingly, sound maybe only one of several simultaneou s and expressive components constituting a cultural experience. Here proces s can suggest and define a set of possibilities as an artistic statement ir respective of whether something or anything is manifest by any artist. With the environment saturated with music, the creative design of musical proce sses might become an art in itself.