Perhaps the greatest difference between contemporary composition and the world of the classical composer is technology. While the young Mozart honed his playing and performing skills on a harpsichord and wrote down his ideas on manuscript paper with a quill pen, today’s composer has everything available to them through a basic personal computer.Technology has become increasingly cheap and the quality of computer-based sounds dramatically risen to the point that in the hands of a skilled technician, you are hard-pressed to tell the difference between the London Symphony Orchestra and a computer-generated performance. It is tempting to wonder what early composers would make of the music today and how it is made.