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Br�vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild,
Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / Ragnhild Br�vig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : digital technology and popular music sound -- Making sense of digital spatiality : Kate Bush's eerie collage -- The instrument formerly known as the machine : hyper-accuracy and sonic richness in Prince's "Kiss" -- The rebirth of silence in the company of noise : Portishead going retro -- Cut-ups and glitches : the freeze and flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher -- Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo -- Autotuned voices : alienation and "brokenhearted androids" -- Popular music in the digital era.
How sonically distinctive digital "signatures"--Including reverb, glitches, and autotuning -- affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
9780262334464 0262334461
10192 MIT Press 9780262334464 MIT Press
Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Popular music--Production and direction.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory.
Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.
ARTS/Music & Sound Studies SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture
Electronic books.
ML3877 / .B77 2016eb
781.640285
Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / Ragnhild Br�vig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : digital technology and popular music sound -- Making sense of digital spatiality : Kate Bush's eerie collage -- The instrument formerly known as the machine : hyper-accuracy and sonic richness in Prince's "Kiss" -- The rebirth of silence in the company of noise : Portishead going retro -- Cut-ups and glitches : the freeze and flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher -- Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo -- Autotuned voices : alienation and "brokenhearted androids" -- Popular music in the digital era.
How sonically distinctive digital "signatures"--Including reverb, glitches, and autotuning -- affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others.
9780262334464 0262334461
10192 MIT Press 9780262334464 MIT Press
Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Popular music--Production and direction.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory.
Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.
ARTS/Music & Sound Studies SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture
Electronic books.
ML3877 / .B77 2016eb
781.640285