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(Re)defining Sampling in Digital Audio Workstations: the Case of DirtyCircuit and Deadmau5 Sonja Hamhuis   In 2008, amateur musician DirtyCircuit used two samples of Deadmau5’s “Faxing Berlin” (2007) in one of his tracks. The samples were included in the database of FL Studio, a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used by many early-career EDM producers. However,

Discovering Identity: the Contribution of Disco to Experiences of Queerness Subcultures: Music, Identity, Media Moira de Kok April 2, 2019   Since its inception, disco music has been connected to queer communities.[1] It enjoyed its heyday during the mid- to late 1970s, yet it has seen a resurgence in popularity from the mid-1990s onwards. Its

Searching for hours before finding something to watch has become even more difficult in the twenty-first century with the coming of streaming platforms. The variety and amount of films or series to watch has become the burden of the modern consumer. Not so long ago, Netflix introduced a sort of “mini-trailer,” that is made available

  By Manuel Gutierrez Rojas   [M]odern technology has [. . .] shifted the metaphor from exceptional accomplishment on paper by “composers” to exceptional accomplishment on hard disk by “producers.” Moreover, the producer and his machines are on stage, just as the composer was once a performer. At the top of the current charts, one increasingly finds

Stories are everywhere, even without us knowing them: “The world is full of books that we haven’t read, but that we know pretty well.”[1] Umberto Eco’s words reflect the idea that we read much more than just books. We know the great stories without necessarily having read them. It can go from the Bible to One