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Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brøvig, Ragnhild, author.
- Danielsen, Anne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--Production and direction.
- Sound--Recording and reproducing--Digital techniques.
- Sound.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Digital Technology and Popular Music Sound 1
- 2 Making Sense of Digital Spatiality: Kate Bush's Eerie Collage 21
- 3 The Instrument Formerly Known as the Machine: Hyperaccuracy and Sonic Richness in Prince's "Kiss" 43
- 4 The Rebirth of Silence in the Company of Noise: Portishead Going Retro 61
- 5 Cut-Ups and Glitches: The Freeze and Flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher 81
- 6 Seasick Computers: Microrhythmic Manipulation in the Era of Endless Undo 101
- 7 Autotuned Voices: Alienation and "Brokenhearted Androids" 117
- 8 Popular Music in the Digital Era 133.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262334464
- 0262334461
- OCLC:
- 941999240
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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