Book description
The hidden material histories of music.
Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and recorded music as a progress of dematerializationāan evolution from physical discs to invisible digits. In Decomposed, Kyle Devine offers another perspective. He shows that recorded music has always been a significant exploiter ofā¦
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1 author picked Decomposed as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Just as important as thinking about how music sounds and what it means is thinking about where technology comes from and crucially, where it goes after weāre done with it. This book lets no one off the hook and insists that anyone who cares about music should be cognizant of its economies of waste and decomposition.Ā
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