This also tremendously affects human culture. While the information you need to perform a piece of classical music can easily get stored for ever (high quality, archival grade ink and paper plus loads of copies from time to time, stored in a save area) there is no such thing for recorded music.<p>There isn&#x27;t even a future proof way to capture a simple house beat. For instance, the drums are sampled from vinyl then go into a 12 bit sampler then got digitalized a decade later. Finally a row of skillfully tweaked digital effects gets applied to the individual hits and the sequence as a whole.<p>All this is necessary to make a simple house beat sound&#x2F;feel the way it does. But there is no notation for the process you have to go through to achieve this result. Drums in a different style of music that use the very same simple drum pattern have a very different feel to them.<p>You could argue that there is no need for a notation as there are ways to preserve the files of your DAW and thus the process is sort of documented. But whether or not you can open these files in the future depends entirely on economic interests of hard- and software manufacturers.