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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465870003321

Autore

Brøvig-Hanssen Ragnhild

Titolo

Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-262-33446-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

781.640285

Soggetti

Popular music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Popular music - Production and direction

Sound - Recording and reproducing - Digital techniques

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 : Los Sampler's and Squarepusher's freeze and flow -- Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo -- Autotuned voices : alienation and brokenhearted androids -- Popular music in the digital era.

Sommario/riassunto

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.