Compact Disc

Name: Compact Disc
Brand: Robert (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance Barry
SKU: 9781501348518
Price: 9.74 GBP
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by Robert (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance Barry

Title:

Compact Disc

Author:

Robert (Institute of Contemporary Music Performance Barry

Series (if any):

Object Lessons

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

160 pages

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

ISBN-13:

9781501348518

EAN:

9781501348518

Publication Date:

19/03/2020

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

270

Dimensions (mm):

121 x 164 x 14

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£9.74

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Description

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid the grounds for the death of a great industry. For in the passage from analogue media, like records and tapes, to digital formats, like CDs, something changed in the nature of media and in the relationship we have with music. Music became code, a sequence of 1s and 0s, a flow of pure information. The material structure of the medium itself was always supposed to disappear. But the physical has proved to possess an uncanny knack for returning. Today the CD is a zombie medium, still popular amongst certain avant-garde record labels and Japanese consumers. Against all the odds, the spectre endures.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.