Stay Wires: A Historical past of Digital Music

We stay in an digital world, saturated with digital sounds. But, digital sounds aren’t a brand new phenomenon; they’ve lengthy permeated our sonic panorama. What started because the otherworldly sounds of the movie rating for the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet and the rarefied, new timbres of Stockhausen’s Kontakte just a few years later, is now a standard soundscape in expertise, media, and an array of musical genres and subgenres. Extra folks than ever earlier than can produce and hearken to digital music, from remoted experimenters, classical and jazz musicians, to rock musicians, sound recordists, and the newer generations of digital musicians making hip-hop, home, techno, and ambient music. More and more we’re listening to digital sounds, discovering new meanings in them, experimenting with them, and rehearing them as listeners and makers.

Stay Wires explores how 5 key digital applied sciences—the tape recorder, circuit, pc, microphone, and turntable—revolutionized musical thought. That includes the work of main figures in digital music—together with everybody from Schaeffer, Varèse, Xenakis, Babbitt, and Oliveros to Eno, Keith Emerson, Grandmaster Flash, Juan Atkins, and Holly Herndon—Stay Wires is an arresting dialogue of the highly effective musical concepts which might be being recycled, rethought, and remixed by probably the most fascinating digital composers and musicians at the moment.