Could there be a philosophy of dithering? A sonic guide to living with transience? A political critique of the sine wave? Yes and yes and yes. In this elegant book, Kromhout explains the logic of filtering—our cultural logic, in an era of technical mediation.
Melle Jan Kromhout is an independent scholar working on the intersection of musicology, sound studies, and media studies. After completing his PhD at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Music and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.