{"product_id":"9780226830094-sounding-human","title":"Sounding Human","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusic and Machines, 1740\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human \u003ci\u003eor \u003c\/i\u003emachine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In \u003ci\u003eSounding Human\u003c\/i\u003e, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounding Human\u003c\/i\u003e enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a “sound wave instrument” by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, \u003ci\u003eSounding Human\u003c\/i\u003e shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been—or can be—used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41103420522593,"sku":"9780226830094","price":106.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29796771.jpg?v=1730224633","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780226830094-sounding-human","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}