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Titel: The New Analog
Auteur: Damon Krukowski
ISBN: 9781620971970
Conditie: Als nieuw

An NPR Best Book of the Year: A pointedly passionate look at whats been lost in the digital era. Los Angeles Times

A longtime musician and former member of the indie band Galaxie 500 who has also taught at Harvard, Damon Krukowski has watched cultural life lurch from analog to digital. And as an artist who has weathered that transition, he has challenging, urgent questions for both creators and consumers about what we have thrown away in the process: Are our devices leaving us lost in our own headspace even as they pinpoint our location? Does the long reach of digital communication come at the sacrifice of our ability to gauge social distance? Does streaming media discourage us from listening closely? Are we hearing each other fully in this new environment?

Rather than simply rejecting the digital disruption of cultural life, Krukowski uses the sound engineers distinction of signal and noise to reexamine what we have lost as a technological culture, looking carefully at what was valuable in the analog realm so we can hold on to it. Taking a set of experiences from the production and consumption of music that have changed since the analog erathe disorientation of headphones, flattening of the voice, silence of media, loudness of mastering, and manipulation of timeas a basis for a broader exploration of contemporary culture, Krukowski gives us a brilliant meditation and guide to keeping our heads amid the digital flux. Think of it as plugging in without tuning out.

This is not a book about why vinyl sounds better; its way more interesting than that . . . [It] is full of things I didnt know, like why people yell into cellphones . . . Ultimately, its about how we consume sound as a societywhich is, increasingly, on an individual basis. NPR

If youre a devoted music fan whos dubious about both rosy nostalgia and futuristic utopianism, Damon Krukowskis The New Analog is for you. The New York Times Book Review

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