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    Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications
    Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications
    Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications
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    Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications

    By Jay Hodgson and Steve MacLeod

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    The first title in the Laurier Digital series.

    Representing Sound elucidates the base technical ontology, the machine essence, of every recorded musical communication. In so doing, it suggests the broad contours of an unprecedented theoretical basis for considering recording practice that posits no fundamental relationship between it and live performance. Representing Sound thus complicates common conceptions of sound to include different ontological states. This seemingly simple notion–that the acoustic phenomena we encounter in concert are, by nature, different from those we encounter when we listen to records–should have profound consequences for the way everyone, from musicologists to rock stars, considers recording practice.

    In the tradition of books like Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium Is The Massage (1968), Representing Sound sets its text within more than one hundred original visual artworks, each designed to reinforce the essay’s broader creative resonances. This allows readers to approach the larger ontological argument either atomistically (i.e., on a frame-by-frame basis) or holistically, depending on their creative or analytic needs. In this way, Representing Sound provides a possible model for creative scholarly work in the impending post-book era.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateMay 28, 2014
    ISBN9781554589708
    Representing Sound: Notes on the Ontology of Recorded Musical Communications
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    Jay Hodgson

    Jay Hodgson is an associate professor of popular music at Western University, where he teaches courses in songwriting and project paradigm record production. He has provided music for movies featured in Rolling Stone and SPIN magazines, for documentaries produced by the United Nations, and for companies such as the YMCA. He has produced, mixed, and mastered more than 500 tracks recently for record labels as far afield as Sierra Leone, Ibiza, Berlin, New York City, and Montreal. His book Understanding Records was recently acquired by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Reading Room.

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