[spectre] Recommended reading for a Sunday afternoon: The road to plunderphonia, by Chris Cutler

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*The road to plunderphonia, by Chris Cutler*

Chris Cutler investigates how the fact and the practice of sound recording
have transformed every aspect of production and reception in the field of
organised sound, creating wholly new genres and understandings.

Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio/quadern_audio_chris_cutler/capsula
<http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio/quadern_audio_chris_cutler/capsula>
PDF:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110104/QA_04_Cutler.pdf

In "The road to plunderphonia" Chris Cutler looks at the critical role of
memory – on which both the origination and reproduction of music turns –
and attempts to unpick to what extent the specific nature of a memory
system shapes the music that it mediates, with reference, especially, to
the third and newest of these systems: sound recording. Chris investigates
how the fact and the practice of sound recording have transformed every
aspect of production and reception in the field of organised sound,
creating wholly new genres and understandings. If the medium is the
message, this essay is an attempt to understand what the message of this
system is.

Enjoy!
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