The Logic of Filtering
The Logic of Filtering The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? And how did it change what we listen…
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The Logic of Filtering
The Logic of Filtering traces the profound impact of technical media on the sound of music, asking: how do media technologies shape sound? And how did it change what we listen for in music? How does this affect music?
Based on a wide range of historical, technical and theoretical sources, author Melle Jan Kromhout explores this one hundred and forty-year history of sound media and shows why noise should not be understood as unwanted by-effect, but instead plays a foundational role in shaping the sonic contours of recorded music. Since the invention of sound recording in the second half of the nineteenth century, media that transmit, record, store, and reproduce physical sound inspired dreams of perfect reproduction, but were also confronted with the inevitable introduction of noise. The Logic of Filtering develops an extensive media archaeological analysis of the