Browsing Institutt for musikkvitenskap by Author "Devine, Kyle Ross"

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  • Decomposed: A political ecology of music 
    Devine, Kyle Ross (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2015)
    This article is about what recordings are made of, and about what happens to those recordings when they are disposed of. It inscribes a history of recorded music in three main materials: shellac, plastic and data. These ...
  • Imperfect Sound Forever: Loudness Wars, Listening Formations and the History of Sound Reproduction 
    Devine, Kyle Ross (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2013)
    The purpose of this paper is to provide some historical perspective on the so-called loudness war. Critics of the loudness war maintain that the average volume level of popular music recordings has increased dramatically ...
  • A Mysterious Music in the Air: Cultural Origins of the Loudspeaker 
    Devine, Kyle Ross (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2014)
    Loudspeakers are everywhere in the built environment. Indeed, music, sound, and listening today are arguably defned by their apparently inevitable mediation by an electronically amplifed loudspeaker. But it wasn’t always ...