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Who let the DAWs Out? The Digital in a New Generation of the Digital Audio Workstation

Reuter, Anders LU orcid (2022) In Popular Music and Society 45(2). p.113-128
Abstract
Pop is increasingly assimilating the compositional practices of hip- hop and EDM (electronic dance music). This shift is driven by a new generation of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs). These are less based on a recording studio logic and more a combination of controlling loops and the networked logic of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) culture. Via new media theory, this article discusses how the practices of hip-hop and EDM are digitalised in the DAW, and what that means for pop production. I argue that it entails funda-mentally new practices that can better be understood as control of metadata that define interrelational running processes.
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DAW, digitalization, music production, pop, ubicomp
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Popular Music and Society
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45
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2
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16 pages
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Routledge
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  • scopus:85116578306
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0300-7766
DOI
10.1080/03007766.2021.1972701
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English
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