What do we talk about when we talk about “laptop music”? Over at newmusicbox.org, there is now an open thread for discussion of “laptop music,” spun off from the article I published there last week Wednesday: “Serial Port: A Brief History of Laptop Music.” The piece focuses on six major cultural precursors of laptop music: (1) musique concrete, (2) serialism, (3) analog synthesizers, (4) hip-hop, (5) the “recording studio as instrument” and (6) the “advance of the personal computer.” Eight laptop musicians are singled out for recognition, in alphabetical order: Taylor Deupree, Fennesz, Kid 606, Monolake, Ikue Mori, Scanner, Carl Stone and Keith Fullerton Whitman. The article is here and the discussion page is here.
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