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Allan Moore
Digital Signatures brings to light some of those processes that intervene between the invention of music and what is presented to listeners. In this it adds to the growing wealth of studies that address music technology and its mediation. This book, however, goes further than most others. Through a series of well-chosen case studies, it demonstrates how to bring digital sound manipulation within the orbit of music analysis, insisting that it is the musical effects of the use of technology that matter. In doing this, it emphasizes issues of musical meaning, which is what draws listeners to music in the first place.
Serge Lacasse
The authors offer an alternative and refreshing view of the uses and effects of recording technology through the original concept of 'digital signatures.' Each chapter's analyses brilliantly illustrate the impact of digital signatures on the sounds and meanings of recorded popular music. A must for anyone interested in the poetics of music/technology interaction.
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Digital Signatures brings to light some of those processes that intervene between the invention of music and what is presented to listeners. In this it adds to the growing wealth of studies that address music technology and its mediation. This book, however, goes further than most others. Through a series of well-chosen case studies, it demonstrates how to bring digital sound manipulation within the orbit of music analysis, insisting that it is the musical effects of the use of technology that matter. In doing this, it emphasizes issues of musical meaning, which is what draws listeners to music in the first place.
—Allan Moore, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey; author of Rock: The Primary Text and Song Means
The authors offer an alternative and refreshing view of the uses and effects of recording technology through the original concept of 'digital signatures.' Each chapter's analyses brilliantly illustrate the impact of digital signatures on the sounds and meanings of recorded popular music. A must for anyone interested in the poetics of music/technology interaction.
—Serge Lacasse, Professor of Musicology, Université Laval
Digital Signatures offers a major contribution to our understanding of the mediating role of technology in the forging of contemporary popular music aesthetics. Framed by two thoughtful essays on the role of technology in pop, Digital Signatures presents a series of in-depth analyses of pop songs from the 1980s to the present, finding traces of the digital in the pulsating surfaces of popular music, its rhythms, sounds, and silences. Brøvig-Hanssen and Danielsen are as well versed in the tools of contemporary music production as they are in the methods of music theory and analysis. Their collaboration has resulted in a profound investigation into how we make and experience music in the digital age.
—Paul Théberge, Canada Research Professor, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University
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Digital Signatures offers a major contribution to our understanding of the mediating role of technology in the forging of contemporary popular music aesthetics. Framed by two thoughtful essays on the role of technology in pop, Digital Signatures presents a series of in-depth analyses of pop songs from the 1980s to the present, finding traces of the digital in the pulsating surfaces of popular music, its rhythms, sounds, and silences. Brøvig-Hanssen and Danielsen are as well versed in the tools of contemporary music production as they are in the methods of music theory and analysis. Their collaboration has resulted in a profound investigation into how we make and experience music in the digital age.
—Paul Théberge, Canada Research Professor, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University
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