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.
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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