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Pop Materialising : Layers and topological space in digital pop music

Reuter, Anders LU orcid (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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Organised Sound
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27
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1
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10 pages
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Cambridge University Press
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ISSN
1355-7718
DOI
10.1017/S1355771822000243
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English
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