Robert Strachan is a Lecturer in Music based in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool.

Sonic Technologies brilliantly illustrates the consequences of digitization for musicmaking. Strachan illustrates and questions not only the music that results from the use of new audio technologies but delves into the design of the technology to focus on the affordances, sonic and visual, that shape the creative and recording processes. Throughout the book the focus on creativity, aesthetics and the process of making and recording music make this a uniquely insightful book.

• IntroductionChapter I. Digital Technologies, Democratisation and Cultural ProductionChapter II. Affordance, Digital Audio Workstations and Musical CreativityChapter III. Digital Technology and Technique in the creative processChapter IV. Creativity as Discourse/Creativity as Experience in Electronic Dance Music and ElectronicaChapter V. Digital Aesthetics: Cyber Genres, Auto Tune and Digital PerfectionismConclusion

Robert Strachan is a Lecturer in Music based in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool.

Sonic Technologies brilliantly illustrates the consequences of digitization for musicmaking. Strachan illustrates and questions not only the music that results from the use of new audio technologies but delves into the design of the technology to focus on the affordances, sonic and visual, that shape the creative and recording processes. Throughout the book the focus on creativity, aesthetics and the process of making and recording music make this a uniquely insightful book.

• IntroductionChapter I. Digital Technologies, Democratisation and Cultural ProductionChapter II. Affordance, Digital Audio Workstations and Musical CreativityChapter III. Digital Technology and Technique in the creative processChapter IV. Creativity as Discourse/Creativity as Experience in Electronic Dance Music and ElectronicaChapter V. Digital Aesthetics: Cyber Genres, Auto Tune and Digital PerfectionismConclusion