Sounding Human Dermatology and other vexed issues

and other vexed issues

from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st

love and the climate crisis

only to find them still very much alive

Sounding Human Dermatology and other vexed issuesAn expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing human musicality from its merely mechanical simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking