Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?

Hearing the Cloud: Can Music Help Reimagine The Future?
ISBN-10
1785358391
ISBN-13
9781785358395
Category
Music
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
2019-10-25
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Author
Emile Frankel

Description

Can music be a curse? Here is an alternate history of online politics and new technology from the perspective of listening, typing, composing, and shared hearing. Emile Frankel presents a rigorous account of a world felt to be in crisis. The aesthetic and tonal ramifications for such feelings are twisted within the oppressive online structures mediating new music. The legacies of Silicon Valley digitalism, 4chan, Less Wrong, and Chaos Magic are compared to the magical thinking which underlies stochastic composition, and the aesthetics of deconstructed club music. Despite a pessimistic account of Accelerationism and reactionary philosophy, Frankel's spirited writing is full of hope. Hearing the Cloud considers the communal online conversations we engage in daily as profound acts of defiance. Sweet, lithe, oily, and honest music is shown to be an important source of togetherness.

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