Who let the DAWs Out? The Digital in a New Generation of the Digital Audio Workstation
(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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- author
- Reuter, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-03-15
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- DAW, digitalization, music production, pop, ubicomp
- in
- Popular Music and Society
- volume
- 45
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:85116578306
- ISSN
- 0300-7766
- DOI
- 10.1080/03007766.2021.1972701
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 2f68dabd-dbe1-45d4-8f58-9cf68792df85
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