Sonic technologies
Subtitle: popular music, digital culture and the creative process
By: Robert Strachan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781501310614; 9781501310621
Subjects: Music and technology; Popular music; Philosophy and aesthetics; History and criticism; Computer music; Production and direction; Digital audio editors; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Electronic music
Description: 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 [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Digital technologies, democratization and cultural production; title: Affordance, digital audio workstations and musical creativity; title: Digital technology and technique in the creative process; title: Creativity as discourse/creativity as experience in electronic dance music and electronica; title: Digital aesthetics : Cyber genres, Auto-Tune and digital perfectionism.