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Knakkergaard, M. (2014). The music that’s not there. In M. Grimshaw (Ed), The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality (pp. 392–404). New York: Oxford University Press. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (1/18/14, 1:09 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199826162.013.005 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780199826162 BibTeX citation key: Knakkergaard2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: aesthetics, Music, Reality/Virtuality/Actuality, Space, Virtuality Creators: Grimshaw, Knakkergaard Publisher: Oxford University Press (New York) Collection: The Oxford Handbook of Virtuality |
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"The chapter takes its point of departure in a discussion of the relationship between music as an aesthetic gestalt and sound as physical matter revealing music’s fundamental status as a virtual auditory phenomenon. This is partly carried out through a reflection on music’s traditional acoustic semblance. But it is also a discussion about the experience of space that music provides through traditional analog sound production and the intensification of this experience that occurs in consequence of the introduction of modern digital production methods. It is the chapter’s thesis that recorded music represents, and is experienced in, a space that is not there; music is essentially transitory and virtual, and this is exemplified through an analysis of the instrumentation and production techniques of two songs from Suzanne Vega’s 1992 album 99.9 F˚."
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