TY - BOOK AU - Strachan,Robert TI - Sonic technologies: popular music, digital culture and the creative process SN - 9781501310638 (ebook) PY - 2017/// CY - New York, NY PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Popular music KW - Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Production and direction KW - Computer music KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic music KW - Digital audio editors KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Music and technology KW - Music KW - ukslc KW - Music recording & reproduction KW - thema KW - Technology: general issues KW - Music reviews & criticism KW - lcsh N1 - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781501310614; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web N2 - An examination of the relationship between music, digital technologies and creativity with a specific focus on how personal computers have had a fundamental effect upon the production and distribution of popular music for musicians and producers; Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the ARSC Awards for Excellence 2018 In the past two decades digital technologies have fundamentally changed the way we think about, make and use popular music. From the production of multimillion selling pop records to the ubiquitous remix that has become a marker of Web 2.0, the emergence of new music production technologies have had a transformative effect upon 21st Century digital culture. Sonic Technologies examines these issues with a specific focus upon the impact of digitization upon creativity; that is, what musicians, cultural producers and prosumers do. For many, music production has moved out of the professional recording studio and into the home. Using a broad range of examples ranging from experimental electronic music to more mainstream genres, the book examines how contemporary creative practice is shaped by the visual and sonic look and feel of recording technologies such as Digital Audio Workstations UR - http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=WestLondon&isbn=9781501310638 ER -