In Defense of Music Technology : Adapt or Die  A digital tsunami has struck the world  and only the technologically evolved will survive A few years ago after an electronic music concert, I found myself defending electroacoustic music to a fellow composer who did not understand why composers in my field insisted on using multimedia in their works. Her companion agreed, and as both verbally snubbed composers who use electronics, I realized that music technology divides even the most knowledgeable of musicians. (Ironically, this composer now also engages in multimedia electronica).   In my mind, there are not composers in "my" field of electroacoustic music and "their" field of strictly acoustic (and presumably better) music.  Electroacoustic composers simply compose for electronics  like they compose for a choir or orchestra, and many can just as easily create a symphony as a computer music piece. Critics have always shunned innovation ,...