Digital signatures: the impact of digitization on popular music sound

Introduction : digital technology and popular music sound

Making sense of digital spatiality : Kate Bush's eerie collage

The instrument formerly known as the machine : hyper-accuracy and sonic richness in Prince's Kiss

The rebirth of silence in the company of noise : Portishead going retro

Cut-ups and glitches : Los Sampler's and Squarepusher's freeze and flow

Seasick computers : microrhythmic manipulation in the era of endless undo

Autotuned voices : alienation and brokenhearted androids

Popular music in the digital era.