An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine
in music. Â From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a
logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine.
That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between
human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human”
musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In
Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these
boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking
out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or
with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and
human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of
human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the
centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737
invention of what became the first musical android to the
creation of “sound wave instruments” by a British electronic
music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals
produced by sampling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From
music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and
music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always
actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so,
Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been—or can
be—used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
New Material Histories of Music |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Deirdre Loughridge
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-83011-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-226-83011-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226830117 |
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