Episode 64: Digital Music & The Solo-Doloistic Turn
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Episode 64: Digital Music & The Solo-Doloistic Turn
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Alec and Nick examine the emergence and proliferation of digital music technology in the 1980's as it maps onto a "solo-doloistic" turn in our increasingly individualistic music listening and production habits. First discussing this transition through the lense of conceptual innovations by Robert Ashley and other Sonic Arts Union composers, the episode charts commercial and cultural implications for digital media distribution on CD, .MP3 and so on, and constructs a historical arc for the relationship of experimentalists to this technological paradigm. Topics include: personalized media experience, television, Yasunao Tone, George Lewis' jazz to computational music arc, sampling, Noise, tech complacency, electronic music sub-genre accession and the creative thresholds of digital workstations and resulting aesthetic commonality across genre.