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

• Autore: Brøvig-Hanssen Ragnhild
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA : , : The MIT Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 781.640285
• Soggetto topico: Popular music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Popular music - Production and direction; Sound - Recording and reproducing - Digital techniques
• Soggetto non controllato: ARTS/Music & Sound Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies; CULTURAL STUDIES/Popular Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): DanielsenAnne
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Digital signatures
• ISBN: 0-262-33445-3; 0-262-33446-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798176103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II