Perry R. Cook (ed.), <i>Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics</i>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 0-26203-256-2.

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“…There are a number of proposed analyses as to why the ear works the way it does, but no one theory is dominant. 14 The key point, though, is that while sound reproduction technologies have traditionally been theorised in terms of their relation of absolute fidelity to a sound source, current research suggests that auditory perception has at least as much to do with what happens inside the brain as what happens outside of it.…”

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The death and life of digital audio

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2006

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For many years now, critics have written of digital audio recording -in its myriad formats -as less 'live' or less 'natural' than analogue recording. By implication, these critics suggest that digital audio is closer to death. Taking the metaphysical assumptions behind such claims as its starting point, this essay analyses three key elements of digital audio: temporality, definition and mobility. By troubling the notion of time as a continuous linear flow, and by troubling the idea that all analogue media share this continuity with 'natural' time, it is argued that digital recordings have as legitimate a claim on sonic experience as their analogue counterparts. The argument about experience extends into a consideration of the problem of sonic 'definition': the range of possible pitches and volumes in a given recording. Higher definition does not necessarily make a recording more lifelike. Finally, the contexts in which recordings are generally heard today mitigate against the idea that they must aim to perfectly reproduce a live performance. Rather, their liveliness should be judged by the degree to and manner in which the recordings themselves circulate. Judged by their social lives, rather than by a dubious metaphysics, digital recordings are at least as lively as analogue recordings ever were.

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Section: Jonathan Sternementioning

confidence: 99%

The death and life of digital audio

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2006

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Perry R. Cook (ed.), Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN 0-26203-256-2.

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