Interpreting the Synthesizer
Meaning Through Sonics
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2020
174 pages
978-1-5275-5911-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the synthesizer's significance for music and culture, with a range of contributors providing historical, musicological, practical and theoretical perspectives.The synthesizer as an instrument has evolved rapidly over the last 50 years, conveying different meanings in musical culture at various times in its history. For example, post-punk and new wave acts used synths to signify their embrace of futurism and modernity. Earlier psychedelic bands used the instrument to sonically represent mind expansion while prog acts signposted their lineage to the classical avant-garde. Techno artists used synths to escape the strictures of acoustic music in parallel with rave culture's desire for escapism from the mundanity of daily existence. It is now seemingly ubiquitous in modern pop music production.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Peddling the Putney: The Early Marketing of the VCS3 Synthesizer James Gardner
- CHAPTER 2 Always crashing on the same Synth: Voice/Synth Counterpoise in David Bowie's Low Ian Dixon
- CHAPTER 3 Synth Sonics as Stylistic Signifiers in Sample-Based Hip-Hop: Synthetics Aesthetics from "Old-School" to Trap Michail Exarchos
- CHAPTER 4 The Synth Solo: Rupture in the Fabric of Recorded Music Nick Wilson
- CHAPTER 5 Gassing for a Synth: A Self-Reflexive Approach to the Psycho-Social Contexts of Gear Acquisition Syndrome David Prescott-Steed
- CHAPTER 6 New Modular Instruments and Performance Practice Nino Auricchio and Paul Borg
- CHAPTER 7 Microtonal Resources for the IPad Warren Burt
- Contributors
- Index
