Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Response to "The Aesthetics of Failures: 'Post Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music" by Kim Cascone

       In The Aesthetics of Failures: "Post Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music, Kim Cascone talks about new forms of music. She describes how many artists are using digital technology to make songs and tracks of music out of almost any sounds. She relates this to a lot of techno music, and how DJs mix together several audio samples in order to create different tracks. Post-digital music has even changed again from techno, most recently with dubstep. In dubstep, DJs take any other song or audio samples and remix them together to a create a new song similar to techno, however they also include large amounts of bass and and low tones in the songs to create a unique sounding tracking. Music is constantly changing, and the advent of technology such as the internet and YouTube only make it easier for upcoming artists to share the new forms of music they create.

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