According to leading musicologist Adam Harper ‘We have always been cybernetic, but it
 is as obvious as ever now’. At this year’s Rewire festival, Harper invited a smallpanel, who will discuss thetopic ‘The Cybernetic Now’, with reference to the club programme of Rewire.

Adam Harper is a music theorist, critic, and the author of the book Infinite Music. Imagining the Next Millennium of Human Music-Making (Zero Books, 2012), in which he speculates on how music may sound, and what forms it may take, in the future. A PhD student in musicology, Harper lectures and teaches at the University of Oxford, writes regularly for The Wire and Dummy, blogs on Rouge’s Foam, and gives interdisciplinary lectures and seminars at venues such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses in New Music and All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival, and on The Guardian’s ‘Music Weekly’ podcast series.