(Ideas in this article can be found developed and in paper format in Waters, S. 2000. Beyond the acousmatic: hybrid tendencies in electroacoustic music. Simon Emmerson, ed. Music, Electronic Media and Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate.)

This paper considers the social, discursive, aesthetic and semiotic implications within the context of a shift in paradigm away from the concerns of acousmatic music in an era characterised by the digital.