Pop Materialising : Layers and topological space in digital pop music
Reuter, Anders LU
(2022)
In Organised Sound
27(1).
p.59-68
- Abstract
- This article argues that pop music’s increasing assimilation of hip-hop and EDM (electronic dance music) practices combine with computational automation and this has substantial consequences for musical space. Traditional ‘space-makers’ such as reverb or delay are subject to other functions such as frequency filters and compression that interrelate processual layers of textures. Instead of an active-listener-orientated sonic-space with distinct source-bonded entities, it is based on a particular sonic materiality. With a new media theoretical approach, I consequently argue that this new type of space can better be understood as a mediatised topological materiality.
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- Reuter, Anders
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- 2022-04-22
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- Contribution to journal
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- Organised Sound
- volume
- 27
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
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- scopus:85136987992
- ISSN
- 1355-7718
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1355771822000243
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- English
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