The evolution of digital music production
DAW plug-ins on top
"The evolution of digital music production - DAW plug-ins on top" is the title of the master thesis I wrote during the studies of Applied Media Science at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. Mr. Sebastian Vogt, whom I would like to thank, supervised it.
While researching I wrote down the most interesting parts from the references I used (biography and periodicals). I refined these quotes while adding personal comments (here in italic) and several hyperlinks to them, which would be relevant for their subject. As it turned out that these referenced quotes I had collected would be as extensive as the main paper itself, it seemed reasonable to publish them as well.
To put it online was to show how the thesis writings were gathered together from the referenced quotes, links etc. Using the advantages of a hyperlink medium like the web the excerpted text could be connected to the references directly, avoiding further searching in books, journals and the like. All referenced websites would be at hand immediately. So the purpose of it was some kind of a digital edition, revealing the research process, making it transparent.
The website consists of two main parts corresponding to the printed version, which was handed out as two distinct documents: First document was the main thesis paper itself, second was for references only. Both of them were guided by their own index of contents though. These indices are now part of the navigation panel at the left of the site. As that navigation reveals, the website is subdivided into four sectors called 'parts' (Start, Thesis, References, Impressum), whereas the main text 'parts' are subdivided again into 'chapters' (though the categories chosen for the references are no chapters in its original meaning) then 'sub-sections', then 'articles' (which are linked to the menu via anchors) and of course 'pages' at the lowest level of division.
You can download the master thesis paper and the references as PDF right away, which would be the first printed version then. For any comments or further suggestions on the subject feel free to contact me via mail: llaass@gmx.de
Johannes Laass, Berlin, December 2008