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Apple gets a Grammy

Margaret Kane CNet

Published: 27 Feb 2002 15:51 GMT

Apple Computer will join the ranks of Perry Como and Joni Mitchell when the company picks up a Grammy on Wednesday evening.

The company is being awarded a technical Grammy by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for its contributions to the music industry and recording field.

The other recipient of the 2002 Technical award is Robert Moog, an early developer of electronic instruments who created the synthesiser of the same name. Past technical awards have gone to sound pioneer Ray Dolby, guitar designer Les Paul and compact disc developers Sony and Philips Electronics, among others.

The Academy pointed to Apple's long work with computerised music, going back to the introduction of the Macintosh computer, saying the company "is considered the leading architect in bringing computer technology into the studio and revolutionising the way music is written, produced, mixed, recorded and creatively imagined."

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