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From The Mid-twentieth Century Into The Twenty-first, Artists And Musicians Manipulated, Cracked, And Broke Audio Media Technologies To Produce Novel Sounds And Performances. Artists And Musicians, Including John Cage, Nam June Paik, Yasunao Tone, And Oval, Pulled Apart Both Playback Devices (phonographs And Compact Disc Players) And The Recorded Media (vinyl Records And Compact Discs) To Create An Extended Sound Palette. In Cracked Media, Caleb Kelly Explores How The Deliberate Utilization Of The Normally Undesirable (a Crack, A Break) Has Become The Site Of Productive Creation. Cracked Media, Kelly Writes, Slides Across Disciplines, Through Music, Sound, And Noise. Cracked Media Encompasses Everything From Cage's Silences And Indeterminacies, To Paik's Often Humorous Tape Works, To The Cold And Clean Sounds Of Digital Glitch In The Work Of Tone And Oval. Kelly Offers A Detailed Historical Account Of These Practices, Arguing That They Can Be Read As Precursors To Contemporary New Media. Kelly Looks At The Nature Of Recording Technology And The Music Industry In Relation To The Crack And The Break, And Discusses The Various Manifestations Of Noise, Concluding That Neither Theories

Author

Kelly, Caleb, 1972-

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262258999

Subjects

Music, History, Arts