Now and Forever
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Now and Forever

Towards a Theory and History of the Loop

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eBook - ePub

Now and Forever

Towards a Theory and History of the Loop

About this book

Elvis Presley and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Beatles and Andy Warhol. Terry Riley and Ken Kesey. What all these artists have in common is that loops have played a significant role in their work. The short sequences of sounds or images repeated using recording media have proved to be an astonishingly flexible, versatile and momentous aesthetic method in post-World War II art and music. Today, loops must be counted among the most important creative tools of postmodern art and music. Yet until now they have been largely overlooked as an aesthetic phenomenon. Now, for the first time, this book tells a secret story of the 20th century: how a formerly inconspicuous basic function of all modern media technology gave rise to complete artistic oeuvres, musical styles such as minimal music, hip hop and techno, and, most recently, entire scenes and subcultures that would have been unthinkable without loops.

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Information

Publisher
Zer0 Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781789041521
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Contemporary Art

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Now and Forever: Introduction
  8. Chapter 2: An American Kiss: Thomas Alva Edison’s Kiss Loop and the Forms of Technological Repetition
  9. Chapter 3: If You Repeat the Same Thing, It Becomes Music. Pierre Schaeffer and the French musique concrète
  10. Chapter 4: “We Shall Rule the Sounds!” Karlheinz Stockhausen and the Music of the Sound Laboratories
  11. Chapter 5: The Prosthetic God: Elvis Presley and the bel canto out of the Machine
  12. Chapter 6: A Cockpit of Dreams: Raymond Scott, Music Engineer
  13. Chapter 7: “Precise, Unpretentious and Simple Sequences”: Peter Roehr’s Film Montages and the “Will to Repeat” in 1960s Culture
  14. Chapter 8: “Zennish? That’s a Good Word!” La Monte Young, Andy Warhol and the Suspension of Time
  15. Chapter 9: Accumulating Suspended Time: Terry Riley and the Birth of Minimal Music from the Ideas behind the Tape Loop
  16. Chapter 10: “It Is All Very Clear What’s Happening, But I Still Can’t Follow It.” Steve Reich’s Early Tape Compositions and the Autonomous Functioning of Technology
  17. Chapter 11: This Machine Destroys Subjectivity! Ken Kesey, Psychedelia and Loops of the Great Here and Now
  18. Chapter 12: Paul McCartney Goes Too Far. The Beatles and Loops in a Plastic Bag
  19. Chapter 13: Turning the Machine into a Sloppy Machine: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder and I Feel Love
  20. Chapter 14: Staying in the Rhythm Loops and the Homeostasis of Modernity
  21. Endnotes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Discographer