Remix, Reuse, Recycle

Music, Media Technologies, and Remediating the Environment
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-005115-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

How do we remix the environment? What do the sonic landscapes of video games, friendship bracelets made and shared by Taylor Swift fans, and experimental music composed from the sonification of climate change data have in common? They are examples of environmental remix, a creative and political practice of reshaping, translating, and recycling environmental knowledge into sound media.

Organized around a series of case studies ranging from the well-known to the rare and fascinating, Remix, Reuse, Recycle explores how artists work with sound technologies to remediate and repackage environmental information, including climate change data, soundscape field recordings, sensory experiences of nonhuman nature, and environmentalism discourse into sound-work that can be understood by a non-specialist audience. Author Kate Galloway argues that practices of remixing, reusing, and recycling are interpretive tools through which artists challenge conventional ways of communicating pressing environmental issues and aesthetic experiences of sonic environments to the public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galloway, Kate

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Intro: Remix, Reuse, Recycle: Remediating Sonic Environments

- Chapter 1: Tuning In to the Environment on Soundscape Radio

- Chapter 2: Mixtape Environments and Technologies of Replay

- Chapter 3: Soundwalking and Remixing the Upper East Side with Soundwalk 9:09

- Chapter 4: Creative Captioning and Captioning the City

- Chapter 5: Playful Adaptation and Greenpeace's Save the Arctic Campaign

- Chapter 6: Sampling the Environment and DJ Spooky's Digging in the Landscape

- Chapter 7: Game Environments, Spatial Listening, and Environmental Play

- 8: Outro: Listen to the World's Sounds Remediated

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor in Popular Music at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her work examines the relationships between sound technologies, media, and the environment. Her research addresses aesthetic and political strategies of remixing and recycling sounds, music, and texts encoded with environmental knowledge and the creative and social phenomena of internet music communities, including practices of listening to the internet. She is co-editor of Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games and Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans.