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After Sampling Culture: Synthetic media as culture in twenty-first century music

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After Sampling Culture: Synthetic media as culture in twenty-first century music Arising in recent years to refer to the collective products of generative AI, the concept of ‘synthetic media’ indexes the rise of a new world in which nothing of what we see or hear online is immune from being fabricated. Through its 60+ year engagement with synthetic sound, music stands to offer unique, historically-grounded insight into synthetic media as culture, thus moving beyond the naive realist and alarmist framing of real vs fake that dominates popular commentary. However, to date synthetic media has been misrecognised: either analysed as part of a disruptive wave of AI appearing from nowhere in the 2010s; or treated as a benign appendix to debates around sampling culture, themselves inherited from nearly a century of criticism on the status of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. SYNCULTURE develops richer, historically-sensitive methods of analysis to understand the cultural implications of synthesis as they cross mathematics, engi

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