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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149403203321

Autore

Strachan Robert

Titolo

Sonic technologies : popular music, digital culture and the creative process / / Robert Strachan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2020

London, England : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2020

ISBN

1-5013-1063-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 pages)

Disciplina

786.7/16411

Soggetti

Popular music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Popular music - Production and direction

Computer music - History and criticism

Electronic music - History and criticism

Digital audio editors

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Music and technology

Music recording & reproduction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Digital technologies, democratization and cultural production; Chapter 2 Affordance, digital audio workstations and musical creativity; Chapter 3 Digital technology and technique in the creative process; Chapter 4 Creativity as discourse/creativity as experience in electronic dance music and electronica; Chapter 5 Digital aesthetics: Cyber genres, Auto-Tune and digital perfectionism; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018 In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records to the ubiquitous remix that has become a marker of Web 2.0, the emergence of new



music production technologies have had a transformative effect upon 21st Century digital culture. Sonic Technologies examines these issues with a specific focus upon the impact of digitization upon creativity; that is, what musicians, cultural producers and prosumers do. For many, music production has moved out of the professional recording studio and into the home. Using a broad range of examples ranging from experimental electronic music to more mainstream genres, the book examines how contemporary creative practice is shaped by the visual and sonic look and feel of recording technologies such as Digital Audio Workstations."--