Marc Battier develops relationships between science, technology and music in 13 parts:
- Technical discoveries: the first reproductions of sound (the telephone, the theatrophone, and the phonograph) - Representation and data processing: the first use of the computer in music - The relation between the musician and technique: how do new technologies create new compositional techniques? - The phenomenon of electrification: the role of electricity in sound reproduction - John Cage's influences: new music for new instruments - Scientific influences - Mathematics and music - The influence of the sonic landscape - Deployed voices: the voice and its transformations - The devices devised for musical interaction: live electronics and interactive systems - The physics of sound, the composition of sound: synthesis of musical sounds - The return to the notion of the instrumental in sound composition: spectralism - Research centres: a short history of electroacoustic studios

Marc Battier analyse les relations entre la science, la technologie et la musique en 13 parties :
- Les découvertes techniques - Représentation et traitement de l'information - Le rapport des musiciens à la technique - Le phénomène de l'électrification - Les influences selon John Cage - Les influences scientifiques - Mathématique et musique - L'influence du paysage sonore - La voix déployée - Du pilotage des machines à l'interaction en musique - Physique du son, composition du son - Le retour à l'instrumental de la composition du son - Centres de recherche