All Outputs (3)

Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Harkins, P. (2019, December). Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at This Woman's Work: A Kate Bush Symposium, Edinburgh College of Art

I’m a big fan of Kate Bush’s music but my priority in this paper is not to praise her many achievements. Instead, I want to look at how she was using music technologies in the 1980s and, more specifically, her relationship with the Fairlight Computer... Read More about Following the Auteurs: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI.

Cult Sound Studies: hand claps, orchestra hits, and the production of popular music (2019)
Journal Article
Harkins, P. (2019). Cult Sound Studies: hand claps, orchestra hits, and the production of popular music. Sound Studies, 5(2), 213-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2019.1648029

No abstract available.

Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies (2019)
Book
Harkins, P. (2019). Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351209960

Digital Sampling is the first book about the design and use of sampling technologies that have shaped the sounds of popular music since the 1980s. Written in two parts, Digital Sampling begins with an exploration of the Fairlight CMI and how artis... Read More about Digital Sampling: The Design and Use of Music Technologies.