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The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity by Enrico Monacelli is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity about?

Explores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do. Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi. This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough sounds, spanning from the most extreme heavy metal to the sweetest ear-candies pop can offer, has become a solid presence in our collective sensibility. And yet, it has largely been neglected: this staunch refusal of anything hi-fi and hi-tech has fallen under the radar of the categories we use to analyse ourselves and our times. The Great Psychic Outdoors, dedicated to the most interesting and controversial artists in this movement, will rectify this injustice and vindicate the revolutionary potential of lo-fi music, engaging with this weird genre on its own terms and facing head on the contradictions and possibilities of this multi-faceted phenomenon. Confronting the aesthetic and conceptual stakes of this sonic craft, The Great Psychic Outdoors shows what lo-fi says about us, our lives under

Who reads The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity?

Author

Enrico Monacelli

Publisher

Watkins Media Limited

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781914420610

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Fiction, History