Article: Waterloo Terminal.(Review)

By Tetsu Inoue

Computer technology, coupled with low CD manufacturing costs, has made it absurdly easy to create recorded music: you can make an electronic dance disc or an avant-garde one - as easily (and as artlessly) as erecting a prefabricated shed. Away from the troublesome business of dealing with musicians and acoustic space, sound timbre can be collaged, manipulated and looped within the environment of a PC without leaving home.

There is an analogy here with the non-representational visual arts of the early twentieth century. Sound artists, if they don't mind remaining within the acoustic frame provided by electronic loudspeakers, can deal ...

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