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Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / Ragnhild Br�vig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262334464
  • 0262334461
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital signaturesDDC classification:
  • 781.640285 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3877 .B77 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Print version record.

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.

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