Until very recently, words and writing have been our easiest ways to encode data, which through the knowledge of past and present were meant to guide us more intelligently into the future. But a large number of artistic creations have been lost due to storage difficulties. Humans want to remember. But history as a database is a very incomplete story with big holes. In the beginning through oral tradition, later through writing and painting, books, and finally through mass media, through records, CDs, CD-ROMs and databases in the Net.
Words describe, are almost never exstatic in their written form or their sound.
Words as language become exstatic when used in a fine-tuned way, in the form of song. Songs are a combination of words and sounds, made by humans, dolphins, squeaking doors or the wind, etc. Songs are combined with other musical instruments to become music. Taking the next step by only shifting from analog to digital we start speaking of Techno - any songs and sounds can be sequenced and mixed digitally by means of sampling technology. Using sampling technology, techno music was the first exstatic digital music movement, starting with House, Acid, Electronic Body Music, up to the many faces of techno like Trance, Ambient, Gabba, Intelligent, Jungle, Psychedelic, Electro, Trip-Hop and whatever is being created right now.