The twin exhibitions of Rua Red's annual digital arts and technologies festival open 11 May and close 15 June with a performance from the Spatial Music Collective

The Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, is carrying out research into composers' preservation of digital records by asking composers to complete an online questionnaire.

The app, developed by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, is designed to improve skills such as sight-reading and musical memory.

The app allows musicians to create multi-tracked recordings from scratch, or to contribute new layers to recordings by well-known artists.

Nico Muhly's opera delves into the dark side of the internet, but the subject matter longs for riskier, less guarded treatment, writes Dónal Sarsfield.

Musicians need to think carefully about the impact of technology on their music, writes Peter Rosser: they must resist when technology threatens to dehumanise music, to deprive it of its most essential features.

The digital medium will set radio free, but will it change the essence of radio, asks Benedict Schlepper-Connolly

"The golden age of music magazine publishing and the dominance of the critic in the middle of the twentieth century has recognisably passed". Is the era of the critic coming to an end?

The search for a sustainable business model for the producing and selling of music in the digital age persists, but it is crippled by a narrow view of the internet.

Cannes – The teenagers employed to demonstrate the joys of Rockband – complete with full stage, bass and lead guitars, mics and kit – must have been wondering why the game was suddenly becoming such hard work. Situated by the café...