digital

hmmm, it’s interesting the way a simple word like that gains an emotive impact, isn’t it Musick? Most of the connotations for me are positive, like for BY, but I recognize exactly what you mean too about the loaded shorthand!

From the world of print I get significant images with words like type, lines, stereotype, press... any others?

From photography the violent electric brilliance of a thunderstorm last night made me think about flash (including flash in the pan), and a host from movie’s impact including pan and zoom, and most archytypically for our age perhaps would be cut…

Sound recording has given my lexicon particular resonance in words like bass, reverb (no, not a return to the verb from a noun!), fade, splice, and many others. I think we take for granted how much of our mental landscape has been altered and adapted to see the world through the possibilities opened up by these technologies…