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Momentary Musics: How Spotify And The Attention Economy Transformed Music From Art Form To Affect, Tobias Hess
Momentary Musics: How Spotify And The Attention Economy Transformed Music From Art Form To Affect, Tobias Hess
Senior Projects Spring 2022
The rise of music streaming platforms such as Spotify, and the concurrent emergence of what is broadly known as "the attention economy" have radically shifted the aesthetics of the music industry, as well as the artistic subjectivities of artists that operate within this paradigm. Through a formal analysis of Spotify's recommendation algorithm, I argue that algorithmic curation systems such as Spotify's create a new cultural paradigm that has replaced Adorno's conception "culture industry." What has replaced it is a dispersed meritocracy where success is determined by how well individual cultural actors conform to the preferred aesthetics of algorithmic platforms. Using …
Look At Where You Listen: A Study Of Commercial Music And Mediation, Thomas Walton Moore
Look At Where You Listen: A Study Of Commercial Music And Mediation, Thomas Walton Moore
Senior Projects Spring 2017
A joint senior project submitted to the divisions of arts and social studies. This project aims to reconsider the 'album' as a format of music distribution that has effects on the consumption-of and relationship-with music as commodity. This project consists of writing and recorded-music-making. Please email tom (at) dpimusic (dot) com for a link.