The guests tonight have been active for many years both as electronic musicians/artists/performers and developers of audio soft and hardware. Together with Tony Herrington, editor of the music magazine, The Wire, they discuss the impact of technological developments on the progression of musical aesthetics. Are new technical opportunities such as those offered by the automated recording of music, electronic synthesizers, the electric guitar or modern music software the true motors of progress when it comes to musical forms? Who programmes whom? What role does creative vision play – and what role artistic experiment? How should new musical instruments and tools be designed, in order that their own internal parameters won't overly determine creativity but instead facilitate an open-ended artistic process? Or, given the sheer unending potential of computers, is the task of musical interfaces in fact to impose limitations and thus ultimately to lend depth to the artistic process?