Abstract
This paper examines how todays professional audio recording and production technologies are inextricably linked to their pasts. More than part of a chronological and/or developmental continuum, this paper shows how various problematic attitudinal formations link current technologies to historicized, heritagized and canonical pasts. Drawing on extensive primary research to be published in two forthcoming booksGear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies (2024, The MIT Press) and Secrets and Revelation in Music and Audio Technology Culture (2024, Cambridge University Press), this paper sets out the problems fetishized technologies present to the audio industry, and signposts solutions for the future.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Audio Engineering Society Convention Express Paper |
| Publisher | Audio Engineering Society |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Jun 2024 |
| Event | Audio Engineering Society (AES) Europe Convention 2024 - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Duration: 15 Jun 2024 → 17 Jun 2024 Conference number: 156 https://2024.aeseurope.com/ https://aes2.org/publications/elibrary-browse/?power_search=&text_search=&conference=&limit_search=convention_papers&convention=156 https://aes2.org/events-calendar/aes-europe-2024/ |
Conference
| Conference | Audio Engineering Society (AES) Europe Convention 2024 |
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| Abbreviated title | AES Europe 2024 |
| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Madrid |
| Period | 15/06/24 → 17/06/24 |
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