Introduction : digital technology and popular music sound -- Making sense of digital spatiality : Kate Bush's eerie collage -- The instrument formerly known as the machine : hyper-accuracy and sonic richness in Prince's "Kiss" -- The rebirth of silence in the company of noise : Portishead going retro -- Cut-ups and glitches : the freeze and flow of Los Sampler's and Squarepusher -- Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo -- Autotuned voices : alienation and "brokenhearted androids" -- Popular music in the digital era
Summary
How sonically distinctive digital "signatures"--Including reverb, glitches, and autotuning -- affect the aesthetics of popular music, analyzed in works by Prince, Lady Gaga, and others
