Digital signatures : the impact of digitization on popular music sound / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen and Anne Danielsen.
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.
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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 : the freeze and flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher
- Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo
- Autotuned voices : alienation and "brokenhearted androids"
- Popular music in the digital era.