How does the constant presence of music in modern life—on iPods, in shops and elevators,
on television—affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or …

First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first
time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical …

In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing
so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in …

Musicology: the Key Concepts provides a vital reference guide for students of contemporary
musicology. Its clear and accessible entries cover a comprehensive range of terms …

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and
listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as …

The highest expression of the conflict of things, as a spontaneous eruption of possibilities, as
movement, as a simultaneous poem, as a symphony of cries, shots, commands, embodying …

What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does it enter into our experience, and
how do we capture it in our analyses? A compelling approach among works on temporality …

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and
the country's urban black youth developed kwaito—a form of electronic music (redolent of …

The story of information processing is a story of great success. Todays' microprocessors are
devices of unprecedented complexity and MOSFET transistors are considered as the most …

How is the internet transforming musical practices? In this article, through a study of five
prominent popular and cross-over music genres spanning the period from the late 1990s to …