Ice on the Circuits/Coldness as Crisis
The Re-subordination of Laptop Sound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3858405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexei Monroe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 35-43 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-4467 • E-ISSN: 1477-2256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0749446032000156973 |
| OpenAlex | W2051379857 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper examines issues surrounding the cultural reception of “laptop music”, as well as its wider socio-political implications. By tracing the reactions to industrial and techno music, laptop music is placed in a historical and political context. Reactions to these electronic forms manifest oscillations between technophilia and technophobia. A range of social and cultural pressures lead to the attempted normalisation of electronic music as simply another form of instrumentation. The need to normalise and dilute these forms is driven by the need to exclude the perceived threat of aesthetic and textural coldness and what this reveals about contemporary realities. It is argued that the characteristics for which electronic sounds are criticised can be positive conceptual strengths and that the coldness perceived in some laptop sound and performance can be a positive aesthetic counterweight to the overheated status of mass popular culture
Aesthetics · Art · Electronic music · Laptop · Media studies · Music education · Music industry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Music Technology and Sound Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2015 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |