Compact Disc

ISBN-13: 9781501348518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

London Robert (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance

Opis

"The compact disc promised to be the perfect medium for recorded sound, but it presaged the end of physical media for good. Its history shows that the materiality of media can never simply be wished away."--

Recenzje

This thoughtful, elegantly written little book pays homage to that least loved of music formats, the compact disc. Filled with engaging anecdotes and philosophical observations, the book offers a concise cultural history of audio recording, describing the vicissitudes of the music industry and the dissolution of sonic objects into codes and clouds. Christoph Cox, Professor of Philosophy, Hampshire College, USA, and author of Sonic Flux: Sound, Art, and Metaphysics (2018)

Spis treści

Introduction1 The Little Disc2 The Faithful Disc3 The Wounded Disc4 The Undead DiscPostscriptAcknowledgementsSelect BibliographyIndex

O autorze

Robert Barry is Visual Arts Editor at The Quietus and a Faculty Member at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, London, UK. He is the author of The Music of the Future (2017) and co-editor, with Houman Barekat and David Winters, of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online (2017).