The cries of dismay sound even louder in the halls of commerce, industry and the professions,

where writing is the basis for almost all formal business communication.  Computer print-outs and the conference call may

have altered forever the pace and nature of information exchanged, but transactions for the record-from interoffice

memorandums to multinational corporate contracts-all depend on the precision and clarity of the written word.

                                                                                                                                                             - Merrill Sheils. Why Johnny Can’t Write

  ...externally-derived time structures such as clock time and recording time — in effect, the historical paradox that this introduction   

   of language into the space of the score occurred in the wake of a certain pulverization of musical language under the pressures of

   the mechanical and electronic production,recording and transmission of sound (technically, the shift from the “discrete” semiotic

   units of conventional languages to the “continuous” signs generated by indexical processes).

                                                                           -Liz Kotz, Disintegrated Circuits: Rethinking the Score in the Postwar ‘Aesthetics of Indeterminacy’