Though Mr. Machover, a professor of music and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a sophisticated knowledge of electronic resources, he brings a childlike enthusiasm to his multimedia experiments.
A Home Office report, Reducing Criminal Opportunity, published in January, warned: "Once the knowledge of electronic compromise spreads from more seasoned offenders to more casual ones, thefts will start to rise".
Like most rock kids of his generation, from an early age he had a working knowledge of electronic music through listening to industrial bands such as Nine Inch Nails, and an obsession with "IDM" ("intelligent dance music"), in particular "anything on Warp Records".
The music industry has been slow to find and cultivate talented new electronic composers, due in part to critics like Mr. Scherman whose limited knowledge of electronic music stokes a nostalgia for the familiar sounds of a music in which they can easily find the human feeling.
Knowledge of electronic and molecular structure of excited states of photosensitizers and intermediates of catalysts is a key topic for rational design of systems for artificial photosynthesis.
More importantly, we have a vast knowledge of electronic music.
