Does the future of music lie with the midi interface?
Quite often these days one comes across websites which produce, via the the programming in one's one computer's sound card and BIOS funny tootling music. What's happening, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that in the same way HTML functions and vector graphics documents work, a few integers communicate to one's computer what noises it should make.
Presuming computers and other such devices do continue to have enlarged resources at their own disposal isn't it fair to assume that music will be transported in the future in much smaller digital packets. I mean for instance the mp3 is essentially a bitmap, snapshot of a recording. It's funny to think that this is closer (if not identical) to the historic principle of sheet music, itself a "programme" rather than an encapsulation.
On the other hand I guess that the increasing speed of mainframes and the enlargement of the trunk roads of data communication (from 3G mobile phones to broadband) may create a situation counter to this whereby in fact we all end up downloading AIFFs.
I'm sure there must be some top theorising along these lines.