How Has Technology Changed The Way We Experience Live Music?

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The economic principle that I am researching is that people generally respond to incentives in predictable ways, and how technology has changed our methods of listening to music.

My research question to help me study this topic is how technology has changed the way we experience live music.

With the development of more powerful technology, the lighting and other visuals that are shown during concerts have became incredibly better.  For example, in the picture above, there are lights of all different colors arranged in incredible patterns all being controlled by some guys sitting on a computer. Additionally, there is smoke and fire that can shoot up from points in the stage.  None if this would have been able to happen in the past.  Additionally, technology has made it possible to design much more complex stages which are very popular at music festivals.  Engineers are able to model what they want the stage to look like on a computer and now have the technology and machines to build it exactly how they want to.  These are the sort of behind the scenes things that we as concert listeners take for granted.  Lots of hard work goes into the technological aspect of a concert, and 90% of the things we see at concerts today probably couldn't have been done at a concert 20 years ago.